The presidency of Dilma Rousseff and her subsequent replacement with Michel Temer are more problematic for Brazil and for the authors’ arguments (the book was published as the impeachment crisis began but before Dilma’s ouster). In chapter 6, they acknowledge that Dilma’s antiliberal economic policies, deficit spending, and disinclination to build congressional alliances were a marked depar- ture from fiscally sound social inclusion. The concluding chapter and an afterword also acknowledge the severity of the economic and political crisis in Dilma’s second term, which constitute a new “window of opportunity” that could, once again, upend prevailing expectations. Given recent events, what are we to make of the book’s argument that fiscally sound social inclusion constitutes a new Brazilian social contract? The initial signs from the Temer government are less than reassuring. The new president seems com- mitted to restoring fiscal balance, and the judiciary appears undeterred in seeing through the Petrobras investigations. However, Congress’s recent efforts to torpedo an anticorruption law, the tainted past of Temer and his current congressional allies, and the decidedly unrepresentative gender and racial composition of Temer’s government suggest a stubborn reassertion of the politics of impunity and cronyism. For some readers, these events may suggest a failure by the authors to appreciate the epiphenom- enal nature of the apparent consensus of the Cardoso-Lula years, which perhaps was simply the byproduct of the end of hyperinflation, rising commodity prices, and two presidents who were politically astute enough to take advantage of the good times. For others, recent events, and the authors’ cautious tone in the last section of the book, will speak to a reasonable acknowledgment of the contingent nature of political and economic outcomes. They will agree, as I do, that the institutional changes of the last 25 years that the authors highlight are profound, while sharing the authors’ view that development is a “rough ride” in which inefficiencies, mis- takes, and setbacks are the norm. Whichever way one receives the arguments in this book, they merit a serious reading: the strength of this volume is its holistic re-eval- uation of recent Brazilian history in light of an analytic framework that constantly pushes the reader to look beyond the headlines to consider the latent, foundational understandings that animate a political system. Gary M. Reich University of Kansas Sean W. Burges, Brazil in the World: The International Relations of a South American Giant. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Figures, tables, bibliog- raphy, index, 296 pp.; hardcover $115, paperback $32.95, ebook. Sean Burges is a well-known specialist on Brazilian foreign policy with an original and often controversial analytical perspective. Brazil in the World contains reflec- tions on his extensive research, some of which has been presented in journal articles. The book includes the existing literature on the topic, as well as official Brazilian sources of financial and trade data, speeches, and interviews with diplomats from the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations. 148 LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY 59: 3