Promoting a Nation-State's foreign Policy Agenda through Science Diplomacy in the XXI Century: a case of US and the UK in Brazil

In the modern world, where the use of hard power is possible only in exceptional cases, states are forced to achieve goals that correspond to national interests with the help of soft power, one of the manifestations of which is scientific diplomacy. Through which states can benefit from joint activities in scientific fields, regardless of whether they provide assistance or accept it. However, at the present stage, scientists are faced with the problem of insufficient study of scientific diplomacy as a foreign policy instrument of state actors. Thus, this work seeks to study scientific diplomacy as a tool for promoting national interests, because such cooperation is often aimed at achieving specific interests of states in foreign policy. The exchange of students, the opening of scientific centers, the creation of a virtual herbarium with unique plants or cooperation in the fight against the Zika virus epidemic in Brazil, one way or another, is aimed not only at meeting the interests of the recipient state, but also at their promotion by the donor state in foreign territory. To achieve this research goal, an analysis of specific examples of projects implemented by the United States and Great Britain in Brazil will be carried out. The study will also attempt to compare the two countries' approaches to promoting their interests through scientific diplomacy. Thus, it is expected that the work will be able to fill the gap in research in this direction, as well as serve as an impetus for the study of science diplomacy from a previously unused point of research interests.