“The Brazilian government has submitted the proposal to sign the Svalbard Treaty to the National Congress, which is now under consideration.” – new op-ed by MIARC’s Post-Doc Eda Ayaydin.
“If approved, Brazil will become the last BRICS country to join the Svalbard Treaty, extending the bloc’s legal footprint all the way to the High North. Brazil’s entering Svalbard inevitably raises the question of alignment or, as Arne Holm put it, “another BRICS in the wall.”
“Yet political trust in the post-Ukraine invasion era has fractured, and Brazil is stepping into that gap.
In the post-2022 Arctic, the question is not who you are but who you are with. Threat perception has shifted, and the term “like-minded states” is emphasized more than ever.
Brazil positions itself as a gatekeeper of its own partnerships.”
“For Brazil, joining the Svalbard Treaty is more than a legal act, it is an entry point into Arctic dialogue. Svalbard offers one of the rare platforms through which non-Arctic or geographically distant states can engage directly with Arctic under a legitimate international framework.”
