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Major Powers Have a Deal on Sanctions for Iran, U.S. Says

The Obama administration has announced a new deal with other major powers, including Russia and China, to impose new sanctions on Iran - a sharp repudiation of the deal Tehran had offered just a day before to ship its nuclear fuel to Brazil and Turkey.

OECD advises Brazil against more fiscal stimulus

With an expected four percent growth in 2010, Brazil is already recovering from the economic meltdown.

Profile: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

An article on the Brazilian president with an 80% popularity rating.

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Quizzes

GD 2006 Quiz 4 - Brazil

After decades of economic volatility, Brazil is finally enjoying steady growth, despite a political scandal surrounding the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Will Brazil continue on course toward stability? What impact will the scandal have on Brazil's economy, on its South American neighbors and on the U.S.?

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Foreign Affairs Student Writing Contest 2010

In the inaugural Foreign Affairs Essay Contest, a panel from the Foreign Affairs editorial staff will select one winning essay from submissions from undergraduate students. The winning essay will be published on the Foreign Affairs Web site and the winner will receive a $500 prize. Five honorable mentions will receive a free year-long subscription to Foreign Affairs.

Classroom Resources for Great Decisions 2009 from Scholastic - Rising Powers

FPA and Scholastic have partnered to bring additional resources, all free, on the Great Decisions 2009 topic: Rising Powers. Articles from The New York Times Upfront, the current events newsmagazine for teens published with The Times.

U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program

The U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program, jointly administered by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and the Brazilian Ministry of Education, provides grants for up to four years to consortia of at least two academic institutions each from Brazil and the United States. The program fosters the exchange of students and faculty within the context of bilateral curricular development

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Recommended Readings

The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir

What is it like to govern one of the world's most notoriously ungovernable, most vibrant countries? Brazil's former president offers a candid, wry, illuminating view.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be responsible for an economy that had had seven different currencies in the previous eight years to cope with inflation that had run at 3000 percent a year. Brazil had a habit of chewing up finance ministers with the ferocity of an Amazon piranha.