Vol. 40, N° 2, May/Aug, 2018

About the authors

Theófilo Codeço Machado Rodrigues is Professor of Political Theory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science at Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Brazil and a PhD in Social Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. He specialises in the study of media regulation, political parties and political theory. The author published, in 2016, the book “O Rio que queremos: propostas para uma cidade inclusiva.” His current research analyses experiences of social movements, party organization, and populism.

Matheus de Carvalho Hernandez is Professor of International Relations at Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD) and Visiting Scholar in the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. His PhD dissertation – entitled “The UN High Commissioners for Human Rights and Their Office: Creation and Institutional Development” – was awarded the prize for the best political science dissertation in 2016 by the Brazilian National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences (ANPOCS, in Portuguese). He has published articles, op-eds and one book on the UN human rights system. His current research, conducted at Columbia University, is about the role played by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights during the negotiations of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030.

Christopher Kurt Kiesslingis a doctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Córdoba – CONICET. His doctoral thesis explores the linkage between the global governance of climate change and the arena of climate policy governance in Brazil between state and non-state actors. He works as a lecturer and assistant researcher in the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations at the Catholic University of Córdoba. His research focus is on International Relations theory, global environmental politics and the politics of climate change. He has been a fellow of the Fullbright Commission, the St. Gallen Symposium and the Río de la Plata University Foundation, among others.

Rubia Cristina Wegner has a Master’s in Economic Development from the Economics Institute of the State University of Campinas and is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Currently she is Assistant Professor and coordinator of the course of Economic Sciences at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). She was a scholarship holder of IPEA in the project ‘Socioeconomic Structure and Policies for the Integration of South America.’ She participated in the project ‘Perspectives of Investment in Brazil’ (BNDES) with the theme ‘Investment Perspective on the Mercosur and Integration of Latin America’. She was a scholar in the project ‘Brazilian Foreign Policy and the Development Challenges of Least Developed Countries – Haiti’s Case’, funded by MCT/CNPq.

Marcelo Pereira Fernandes holds a PhD in Economic Sciences from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF/RJ). He holds an MA degree in Political Economy from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC/SP). He authored the book Exchange regime and macroeconomic performance the experience of Argentina, Mexico and Brazil in the 90s. Currently he is Associate Professor and vice-coordinator of Economic Sciences at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). He is also a member of the Federal Council of Economy (COFECON), the Research Group on Historical Patterns of Economic Development of South America, and the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Studies in International Relations.

Jean Santos Lima is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the University of Brasilia (IREL/UnB), where he has also lectured in Contemporary International Politics and Methods & Techniques of Research. He holds a CAPES doctoral scholarship. He has worked at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), and has worked at the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI) on a major EU technical cooperation project in Latin America, supporting the internationalisation of small and medium-sized Brazilian firms. His main research interests include Development, International Political Economy, Knowledge Economy Advancement, Regional Integration, and Latin American challenges in the middle-income trap.

Bruno Hendler is a PhD Candidate in International Political Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and holds a Masters of International Relations from the University of Brasília. His research is supported by a CAPES PhD scholarship. He has published widely on China’s rise in the 21st century; China’s pre-modern tributary system; China-South East Asia relations; China-US relations; World System Analysis; International Political Economy; and International Security Studies. He is currently developing analyses of China’s economic statecraft in the Global South, with a focus on South East Asian countries, such as the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia.

Luíza Gimenez Cerioli is a PhD Student at the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany. She has an MA in International Relations from the University of Brasília, and a BA in IR at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, both in Brazil. Her Doctoral thesis under development constructs a strategic triangular framework for evaluating the relations between the USA, Iran and Saudi Arabia and how they affect the regional system of the Gulf. Her fields of interest are Gulf politics, mainly Iran and Saudi Arabia, the USA’s role in the Middle East and how International Relations theories are useful to the understanding of the region.

Natalia Nahas Calfat is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP) and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science at the same university. The author is a member of the Research Group on the Middle East and the Muslim World (GTOMMM/USP) and Executive-Editor of the Journal Malala (FFLCH/USP). She is a Teaching Fellow at IPSA USP Summer School in Methods and Concepts in Political Sciences and International Relations for Causal Case Studies and Process Tracing. The author is Director of National Affairs at the Institute of Arab Culture (ICArabe). Her research focuses on International Politics and conflicts, terrorism, confessionalism and power-sharing designs, post-colonialism in the Middle East, religious identity, and case studies.

Bruno Mendelski is Professor of International Relations at Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, where he teaches the undergraduate course in IR. He holds a BA degree in IR from Unilasalle-RS, a Masters degree in IR from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, and is currently a PhD student in IR at the Universidade de Brasília. He is also a Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior Fellow. He has published widely on IR theory, Middle Eastern politics, and international security.

Marcos Cardoso dos Santos is professor of Scientific Research Methodology and Brazilian Strategic Environment in the graduate programme of International Security and Defence at the Brazilian War College in Rio de Janeiro. He holds a BA in Military Sciences from the Brazilian Air Force Academy, and a PhD in Political Science from Fluminense Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has also completed the United Nations Military Observer Course at the Peace Support Training Centre in Kingston, Canada. He has experience in the fields of defence and United Nations peace operations, serving, among others, as Chief of the Public Information Office of the Military Component of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti for a period of two years. His current research interest lies in using the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe to analyse international security and defence issues.

Camila Maria Risso Sales/STRONG> is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the Universidade Federal do Amapá (UNIFAP). She was a visiting researcher at King’s College, London in 2014. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), and a Master’s in Political Science from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). She concentrates on political communication and international politics, working mainly on the international political system, Brazil’s international image, and media and politics. Her current research is focused on Brazil’s image in the international press, focusing in the narratives of the latest political crisis and the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff.

João Roberto Martins Filho is Senior Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), where he founded the Ana Lagôa Archive, and first president of the Brazilian Defence Studies Association (ABED). He has been a visiting researcher at the University of California; the Centre for Brazilian Studies at the University of Oxford; the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato; and the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford. He has also held the Rio Branco Chair in International Relations at King´s College, London (2014), and the Rui Barbosa Chair in Brazilian Studies at the University of Leiden (2015 and 2018). He is the author of Movimento estudantil e ditadura militar, 1964-1968 (1987), O palácio e a caserna, 1964-1969 (1995), and Segredos de Estado: o governo britânico e a tortura no Brasil, 1969-1976 (2017).

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