Vol. 39, N° 1, Jan/Apr, 2017

About the authors

Matheus Hoffmann Pfrimer is the Professor of Geopolitics and Security Studies, International Relations Program at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil. He holds a PhD in Political Geography from the University of São Paulo (USP), having also conducted post-doctoral research at the same institution. He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Liège University, Belgium, and Bachelors’ degrees in both Law (from the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás – PUC-GO) and Geography (from the Federal University of Goiás – UFG), Brazil. He is currently a Researcher at the Center for Global Studies (NEG), where he holds a grant from the Goiás Research Foundation (FAPEG).

Ricardo César Barbosa Júnior is an undergraduate student in both International Relations at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) and Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC-GO), Brazil. He is currently a PIBIC/CNPq fellow-researcher, and holds the position of Research Assistant at the Center for Global Studies (NEG). He was a Mitacs Globalink Research Intern at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, and an international exchange student at Universidad Autónoma del Caribe (UAC), Colombia. His research focuses mainly on the social and political dimensions of agriculture and food.

Vinícius Santiago is a doctoral student at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio), Brazil. His master’s thesis at the same university dealt with state violence in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and the mobilisation of mothers in the struggle for justice after the death of their sons. His field work involved following the mothers over a period of two years in order to gain a better understanding of their relation with the state. His research interests include postcolonial studies, post-structuralism, aesthetics, gender, racism and violence.

Marta Fernández is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI-PUC/Rio), Brazil, where she obtained both her doctoral and master’s degrees. She is currently co-ordinating the graduate programme at the same institution. She was a research scholar at the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, in 2010. Her doctoral thesis, defended in 2011, was entitled ‘A Postcolonial Reading of the United Nations “New” Peace Operations: The Case of Somalia’. She has taught international relations theory and postcolonial studies. Her current research deals with Brazil’s participation in peacebuilding operations, development, South-South co-operation, theatre, post-colonial perspectives, and racism.

Raphael Spode is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the University of Brasília (IREL/UnB, Brazil). He is co-editor of Abordagem Clássica das Relações Internacionais (Conceito 2012) and co-author of Hobbes e Locke nas Relações Internacionais (Juruá 2013). He lectured the courses Introduction to the Study of International Relations and International Relations Theory at the University of Vale do Itajaí (UNIVALI, Brazil), where he was headmaster. He also lectured International Relations Theory at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC, Brazil). Currently, he is Professor of International Relations Theory and Political Science at the University Center of Brasilia (UniCEUB, Brazil), where he coordinates the Research Centre for Political Thought and Humanities.

Lucas de Oliveira Paes is a PhD candidate at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA. He holds a Master’s degree in International Strategic Studies, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, both from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. His research interests include the conceptual debate on the rise of new powers from Global South, and the ef ects of power transition dynamics on foreign policy. On a theoretical level, he is engaged in the renewed issue of structural and relational approaches to macro-level dynamics of international politics, specifically the use of the intersection between structural differentiation framework and network analysis to address constraints and opportunities for emerging powers form Global South.

André Moreira Cunha is Associate Professor of Economics and International Relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He holds both a Masters’ and a Doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He is Research Fellow in Economics at CNPq, Brazil, and former Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University, United Kingdom (2011/2012), and at Leiden University, Netherlands (2006). His research interests include the macroeconomic aspects of international trade and finance, globalisation, economic integration, and their effects on policy options in the periphery of the world economy. His work has been published in the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Cepal Review, Latin America Research Review, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, America Latina Hoy, among others.

Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca is Professor of Economics and International Relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. He holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Economics from the same institution, and a PhD in Economics from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He is Senior Research Fellow in Economics at CNPq, and a full member of its Economics Committee. His research interests are on economic development, Brazilian economic history in the 20th century, and history of economic thought. He is currently a member of the board of directors at the Celso Furtado International Center, and Director of the Center for International Studies on Government at the UFRGS, Brazil.

Jessica da Silva Correia de Oliveira holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the Institute of International Relations of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio), Brazil. Her dissertation, ‘Topologies and Imaginaries about the Region and the Maghreb as an Artifact: Capture, Insertion and Resistance’, won the national prize for outstanding academic production of the Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI) in 2013. She is currently a PhD candidate at IRI/PUC-Rio, and has conducted part of her research at McMaster University, Canada. Her research interests include postcolonial/decolonial studies, global studies, and literature and narrative in IR, with an emphasis on the Maghreb region.

Carlos Ricardo Caichiolo holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium. He is Professor at the University Center of Brasília (UniCeub), Brazil, which he joined in 2002. Previously, he was Assistant Professor and Fellow of the Inter-American Studies Center linked to the Institute of High International Studies in Quebec, Canada. He has also been a Visiting Fellow of the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade, Serbia. He has also served as an advisor to the Department of International Relations and External Debt of the Central Bank of Brazil, mostly about Mercosur and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). He is the author of Judicial Institutionalization of Integration Processes: Intergovernmentalism and Politicization in Mercosur.

Carlos Federico Domínguez Avilla is Professor of political science at the Unieuro University Centre in Brasilia, Brazil. He holds a PhD in the history of international relations from the University of Brasilia, and a master’s degree in social and political studies of Latin America from the Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago, Chile. He focuses on international politics, Latin American studies, and contemporary history. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Federal University of Goiás and the State University of Rio de Janeiro, and is developing a research project on the quality of democracy in Latin America. His latest books are A Qualidade da Democracia no Brasil (2016), and Política, Cultura e Sociedade na América Latina (2016).

Deywisson Ronaldo O de Souza holds a master’s degree in political science from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, and is a PhD candidate and assistant lecturer at the same university. His research focuses on international security and the defence policies of emergent countries, and has published papers on those issues and on Brazilian foreign policy. He is a researcher at the Center for American Studies (NEA, UFPE) and a member of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) research group on Brazil and the Americas. He is also a member of the Brazilian Association of Defence Studies (ABED). His disciplines of interest are political science, sociology, international relations, and scientific methodology.

Marcos Aurelio Guedes de Oliveira holds a PhD in government from Essex University in the UK. He is Full Professor of political science of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Brazil. He is currently engaged in research on security, defence and foreign policy, funded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He has published widely in Brazil and abroad.

Alexandre Piff ero Spohr is PhD student in Political Science at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations. He researches Brazilian Foreign Policy Analysis and Development. His research interests include emerging powers, foreign policy analysis, and international political economy, aiming to combine these fields of study to allow for a deeper and more comprehensive approach to international relations. He is currently part of a project on Brazilian and Turkish foreign policies and on Dilma’s foreign policy and studies Brazilian foreign policy decision-making process.

André Luiz Reis da Silva holds a PhD in Political Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. He is Associate Professor and Dean of Graduate Programme in International Strategic Studies at the same institution, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Conjuntura Austral: Journal of the Global South. He researches the International Relations of Southern Countries, focusing on Brazilian foreign policy and Emerging Powers in Asia and Africa. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (2013). Currently, he is developing research on Brazilian and Turkish foreign policy in a comparative perspective and another study on foreign policy under Dilma Rousseff ’s presidency in Brazil.

Laura Trajber Waisbich holds a master’s degree in political science from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (France). She is a researcher at the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap), working on citizen participation and South-South development co-operation. She also collaborates with the South-South Cooperation Research and Policy Centre (Articulação SUL) on a range of research and impact evaluation projects. From 2011 to 2016, she worked as programme officer for Conectas Direitos Humanos in Brazil, conducting research and policy work on transparency, accountability, and citizen participation in foreign policy-making. While at Conectas she also worked as editorial assistant for Sur - International Journal on Human Rights.

Raísa Cetra holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), and a postgraduate degree in human rights, migration and asylum from the Universidad Nacional de Lanús (Argentina). She is currently working towards a master’s degree in public policy and human rights at the same university. She has research and work experience on international human rights systems, notably on the right to protest, the right to access information, the right to humane treatment, and the right to migrate. Prior to joining the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS - Argentina) she worked for Brazilian civil society organisations, notably Conectas Direitos Humanos, and gained experience at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH).

Joara Marchezini is an access to information officer at ARTICLE 19 BRAZIL. In 2012, she concluded a NOHA European master’s degree in international humanitarian action at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain. She also holds a postgraduate degree in human rights and democracy from the Coimbra University in Portugal, and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from São Paulo State University. While at São Paulo, she received a scholarship from FAPESP to research the international protection of human rights in armed conflicts. Recently, she worked as an independent consultant for the Brazilian Federal Human Rights Secretariat. She has also worked for Fundación Save the Children and Amnistia Internacional Portugal.

Rodrigo Fagundes Cézar is a PhD candidate in International Relations/Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland. He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (‘San Tiago Dantas’ Post-Graduate Program), Brazil. He has worked at UNDP Brazil, and held a research fellowship position at the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG). His PhD research (‘The making of the trade-labor linkage in the United States and European Union’) approaches the domestic determinants of labour standards in preferential trade agreements from a comparative perspective. His research interests include: foreign policy analysis, trade policymaking in the United States and European Union, and policy networks.

Marta de Araujo Pinheiro holds a PhD and a MA in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Between 2015 and 2016, she was a visiting fellow at Science Po (Paris), in the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI), where she took part in two research groups: ‘Political Anthropology of Catastrophe and Risk’ and ‘Governing Catastrophes.’ Currently, she is a professor and researcher at both the School of Communication (ECO-UFRJ) and the Social Ecology Community Psycho-sociology Postgraduate Programme (EICOS-UFRJ), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is also an associated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Coordination of Contemporary Studies Research Centre (CIEC-UFRJ). Her current research addresses vulnerability and resilience discourses in the Brazilian environmental disasters scenario.

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