The Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI), a leading think tank on the subject in the country for 23 years founded by former Ambassador Luiz Felipe Lampreia, launched yesterday, in a hybrid event, with specialists in Rio and São Paulo, the CEBRI-Journal. The publication aims to be a reference in the country with plural, innovative and quality debates on Brazil's role in the world, in the context of International Relations and Foreign Policy. In digital format, CEBRI-Journal will have open, free and free access, on a quarterly basis and will accept article submissions. Access the first issue of the magazine in full here. The special launch issue of CEBRI-Journal has as its central theme "International Relations and Brazil in the World" and includes a Special Section on the "Bicentennial of the Independence of Brazil".

“The launch of this magazine is the realization of a project conceived more than 20 years ago by CEBRI. It is the result of a construction effort that involved Trustees, Fellows, partners and our team”, thanked the President of the Board of Trustees, José Pio Borges. “The creation of this magazine gives CEBRI the tool it needed to consolidate its international influence”, evaluated CEBRI's Trustee Emeritus and former Ambassador, Marcos Azambuja.

The Editor-in-Chief and Advisor, Hussein Kalout, highlighted the purpose of the publication. “The magazine proposes to foster an intellectual, mature, civilized, democratic, transparent and, above all, non-partisan debate on the challenges for the country on the international scene. The balance and plurality of views and opinions are hallmarks of CEBRI-Revista”, said Kalout. “The journal will be a space for dialogue between those who make foreign policy in practice: academics, but with an accessible and open language to the public”, emphasized Feliciano de Sá Guimarães, professor at USP and also editor-in-chief.

From the Luiz Felipe Lampreia studio in Rio de Janeiro, at CEBRI's headquarters, in Gávea, the President of the CEBRI Board of Trustees, José Pio Borges, CEBRI Trustees, Izabella Teixeira and Marcos Azambuja, Hussein Kalout (editor-in-chief of CEBRI-Journal) and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Celso Amorim (as a guest) participated in the launch debate. From the office of Veirano Advogados in São Paulo, the minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Luís Roberto Barroso, Celso Lafer, Rubens Ricupero, Aloysio Nunes and the editor Feliciano Guimarães participated in the conference call.

Watch the launch event on CEBRI's YouTube channel.