Jörg Husar 
Framing Foreign Policy in India, Brazil and South Africa [PDF ebook] 
On the Like-Mindedness of the IBSA States

Introduction.- IBSA: Three Like-Minded States?- A Comparative Approach to Foreign Policy Discourse Analysis.- Schools of Thought in Foreign Policy Discourse: the Potential for Convergence and Divergence Amongst IBSA States.- Official Framings of Foreign Policy: South-South Leadership as Starting Point of the IBSA Initiative.- Contested Roles: Investigating Societal Framings of Foreign Policy in India, Brazil and South Africa.- Conclusions: On the Like-Mindedness of the IBSA States.- Outlook: IBSA and the Shadow of BRICS.- Annex.

Jörg Husar is Programme Officer for Latin America at the International Energy Agency (IEA) and currently a visiting lecturer at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Po). The present book originated as his doctoral thesis during his involvement in the research project ‘Emerging Powers as Partners of German Foreign Policy’ (2006-2011) at the German Institute of International and Security Affairs (SWP). His field research was supported by foreign policy think tanks in the three IBSA countries: Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais (CEBRI, Rio de Janeiro), South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA, Johannesburg) and Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS, New Delhi). In 2007 and 2010 he served as visiting lecturer in Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin, including a course on the IBSA Dialogue Forum.