In the last years, different frameworks were created with the purpose to help analysts understand the transitions in Brazilian foreign relations since the end of Cold War, several of them using dichotomist conceptual pairs like distance/participation and distance/integration. The objective of this work is present four case studies in Brazilian multilateral relations in which the "thesis of distance" will be analyzed, confronting it with new primary sources. In three cases there is clear conflict with the concept under exam. In other case, it will be evaluated the use of Cold War in the periodization of Brazilian foreign policy. It will be argued, with the presentation of those cases, that it is not possible to encompass all Brazilian multilateral actions in the Cold War in the conceptual framework of "distance". Besides, the cases will also expound that Brazil was far from maintaining systematic distance, absence or isolation; and even when that was the result, several times it was not a tactical position of Brazil.
Brazilian Foreign Policy; Cold War; Multilateralism
