When one doesn’t want to, two don’t fight? President Lula’s discourse vis-à-vis the russo-ukrainian war | Quando um não quer, dois não brigam? O discurso do presidente Lula perante a guerra russo-ucraniana

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Russo-Ukrainian war, Lula, Brazilian foreign policy

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The return of Lula to the Brazilian presidency marks the revival of multilateralism as a guiding principle of Brazilian foreign policy. In this context, the war in Ukraine has served as a testing ground for the restoration of a policy built around Brazil's ambition to play a role as a mediator in global conflicts. This paper sets out to shed light on how president Lula da Silva frames the war in light of broader Brazilian foreign policy goals. By employing framing analysis on all of President Lula's official discourse (comprising 94 speeches, interviews, and tweets) regarding the Russo-Ukrainian war from his inauguration on January 1 until October 7, 2023, when the Israel-Hamas war began to dominate the agenda, our research results indicate that Lula uses two main frames to describe the conflict: a Global South frame, which traces the causes of the war to asymmetries between north and south in the global governance arrangement, and a quarrel frame, which construes the war in terms of an interpersonal conflict.

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Joris Alberdingk Thijm, Universidade de Lisboa

Doutor em Ciência Política pelo Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-UL, 2024). Foi bolseiro pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal, 2020-2024). Seus principais interesses são presidencialismo de coalizão, política brasileira, discurso político e corrupção.

Felipe Leal Albuquerque, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais San Tiago Dantas (UNESP/UNICAMP/PUC-SP)

Doutor em Ciência Política pelo Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-UL, 2020) e mestre em Relações Internacionais pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (PPGRI-UERJ, 2013). Realiza pós-doutorado como bolsista CAPES Print no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais San Tiago Dantas (UNESP/UNICAMP/PUC-SP). Foi professor colaborador do mestrado em Ciência Política da Universidade de Salamanca, Espanha. Foi Marie Curie Fellow (2014-2017) do programa da Comissão Europeia "Power and Regions in a Multipolar Order - Initial Training Network (PRIMO-ITN)", coordenado pela Universidade de Hamburgo. Foi professor substituto de Política Internacional do Departamento de Ciência Política do IFCS-UFRJ. Seus principais interesses são análise de política externa e processo decisório, negociações e regimes multilaterais (especialmente mudança do clima, segurança alimentar, paz e segurança internacionais e migrações) e métodos qualitativos.  

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2026-02-27

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ALBERDINGK THIJM, Joris; ALBUQUERQUE, Felipe Leal. When one doesn’t want to, two don’t fight? President Lula’s discourse vis-à-vis the russo-ukrainian war | Quando um não quer, dois não brigam? O discurso do presidente Lula perante a guerra russo-ucraniana. Mural Internacional, Rio de Janeiro, v. 17, p. e86935, 2026. Disponível em: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/muralinternacional/article/view/86935. Acesso em: 7 apr. 2026.

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