Brazilian Foreign Policy Tweets from the Bolsonaro Era (2019-2022)
by Raposo de Mello, Anna Carolina / Harvard Dataverse·Updated 1mo ago
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Description
Over 12 million tweets published between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2022, covering foreign policy discourse during Jair Bolsonaro's presidency in Brazil. The dataset was collected by Anna Carolina Raposo de Mello for a doctoral thesis and is organized into three sub-datasets focusing on globalism, key foreign policy topics, and tweets from specific leaders.
Use Cases
Analyze the mobilization of 'globalism' as a keyword based on tweets containing the terms globalismo, globalista, and globalistas.
Study discourse on key bilateral relations and multilateral organizations based on tweets discussing the US, China, Venezuela, Israel, UN, Mercosur, OECD, WTO, BRICS, and G20.
Examine the role of key discursive authorities based on tweets from President Jair Bolsonaro, congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, presidential adviser Filipe Martins, and the official Itamaraty profile.
Conduct network analysis for community detection based on the walktrap algorithm and Fruchterman-Reingold model mentioned in the methodology.
Perform qualitative discourse analysis based on the 50 most-retweeted original tweets per community, coded for discursive structures.
Strengths
Over 12 million tweets provide a substantial corpus for analysis.
Covers a defined four-year period (2019-2022) during a specific presidential administration.
Includes a curated sub-dataset of 44,920 tweets from five key foreign policy leaders.
Uses a mixed-method approach combining network and qualitative discourse analysis.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Access is restricted and requires a request to the author for academic research purposes.
The dataset's composition is focused on specific keywords and actors, which may not represent the full spectrum of foreign policy discourse.
Provenance
Source
Anna Carolina Raposo de Mello, doctoral thesis, Universidade de São Paulo / King's College London.
Collection Method
Collected from Twitter/X, analyzed using network analysis (walktrap algorithm, Fruchterman-Reingold model) and qualitative discourse analysis.
Time Range
2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-29 18:05:09; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Brazil
Access is available only upon request for academic research purposes; a description of research purpose and intended use is required.