Vol. 41, N° 1, Jan/Apr, 2019

About the authors

Alexsandro Eugenio Pereira has a PhD in Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and on the Post-Graduate Programs on Political Science and Public Policies at the Federal University of Parana (UFPR). He coordinates the International Relations Research Center at the Federal University of Parana and its journal Conjuntura Global (https://revistas.ufpr.br/conjgloblal) as Editor-in-Chief. He is a researcher in Political Science and International Relations. His research focuses on: theory of international relations; security studies; securitisation theory; and policy transfer in regional integration processes (Mercosur and the EU).

Ana Clara Telles is a PhD Candidate in International Politics at PUC-Rio, with financial support from a FAPERJ Nota 10 Scholarship (2017-2019). She holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the same university and a postgraduate degree in Public Policy Analysis from the Institute of Economy of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her interests include gender studies, drug policy, violence, aesthetics, and territorialities of resistance in the urban space. Over the last ten years, she has worked as a drug policy researcher for a number of non-governmental organizations in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

André Luiz Reis da Silva is Associate Professor of International Relations and Coordinator of the Graduate Programme in International Strategic Studies at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Political Science from UFRGS and is Editor-in-Chief of Conjuntura Austral: Journal of the Global South. Reis researches politics between global South 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 conducting research on the foreign policy of the Dilma Rousseff government and is a Research Productivity Scholar at CNPq (level 2).

Caroline Cordeiro Viana e Silva is a PhD candidate in Political Science from the Federal University of Parana (UFPR). She holds a Master in Political Science (2013) specialising in Political Sociology (2010) from the same institution and a degree in International Relations (2008). She is currently a professor at International University Center (Uninter) teaching the courses International Relations, Political Science and Sociology. She is also coordinator of the International Relations course and academic coordinator of the internationalisation sector of the same institution. She is a researcher at the International Relations Research Center (NEPRI) of the Federal University of Parana. She develops research on the following topics: security studies, securitisation theory, international politics and political science, about which she has published in some national journals.

Eduardo Uziel is a Brazilian diplomat. He was posted to the Mission of Brazil to the UN (2006-2009), to the Brazilian Embassy in Tel Aviv (2009-2012) and to the Mission of Brazil to the EU (2016-present). He was Professor of International Organizations in the Instituto Rio Branco (Brazilian diplomatic academy). He is currently a PhD candidate in political science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, studying the absence of Brazil from the Security Council from 1969 to 1987. He has published the book O Conselho de Segurança, as Missões de Paz e o Brasil no Mecanismo de Segurança Coletiva das Nações Unidas (Brasília, FUNAG, 2015) and several articles on United Nations peacekeeping and Security Council affairs.

José O. Pérez is a master’s degree candidate in International Strategic Studies at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Pérez holds degrees in Political Science and Latin American Studies from the University of Florida (2014) and has completed J. William Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Grants in Brazil (2015, 2016). He is also a researcher at the Laboratório de Estudos e Pesquisas Internacionais e de Fronteiras (LEPIF) and his current research focuses on analysing the discourses and politics surrounding the Mais Médicos programme, as well as Brazilian foreign policy, more broadly.

Louisa Acciari holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and an MSc from Sciences Po Paris. She is currently researching the unionisation of domestic workers in Brazil and their demands to be recognised as workers. Louisa has been involved in collaborative work with domestic workers’ unions since 2015, and is currently working with the ILO-Brazil to develop and implement training material to strengthen domestic workers’ organisational capacity. Her research interests include subaltern studies, social movements, industrial relations, feminist theory and Brazilian politics.

Micael Alvino da Silva PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo (USP), is Assistant Professor at the Latin American Institute of Economics, Society and Politics of the Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA). Coordinator of the Postgraduate course in Contemporary International Relations, of which he is professor of History of International Relations. Coordinator of the Triple Frontier and International Relations Research Centre (CNPq). At the undergraduate level, he works in disciplines of the sub-area of the history of international relations, history of Latin America and history of the Triple Frontier (Argentine, Brazil and Paraguay). In the scope of his research, he works with the international insertion of the Triple Frontier in the post-Cold War in the context of the implications of the transnational crime, especially illicit trade and terrorism.

Natália Maria Félix de Souza is Professor at the International Relations Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), and holds a PhD from IRI/PUC-Rio, in which she engaged the limits of critique in international relations theory. Her work focuses mainly on critical approaches to subjectivity and subject formation, including feminist, post-structural, postcolonial and posthuman theories, and on decolonial approaches to knowledge and knowledge production. She is currently engaged in a number of initiatives regarding Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, including: co-editing the Conversations Section of the International Feminist Journal of Politics; co-editing a Portuguese-language book on ‘Feminism, Gender and International Relations;’ and advancing the agenda of MulheRIs in Brazilian IR.

Norma Breda dos Santos is Associate Professor in the Institute of International Relations at the University of Brasília. She holds a PhD in Political Science (International Relations) from the Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales, Geneva, and an MA in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Her areas of main interest are the history of international relations, the history of Brazilian foreign policy, the multilateral dimension of Brazilian foreign policy and the history of Brazilian relations with the Middle East countries.

Renatho Costa has a Bachelor in International Relations (FASM-SP), as well as a Master and PhD in Social History (FFLCH-USP). He is a specialist in Middle East politics and a professor of International Relations at the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA). He is coordinator of GAE-OMAM (Strategic Analysis Group – Middle East and Muslim Africa). His publications include the book The Ayatollahs and the fear of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Porto de Ideias, 2017) and the articles ‘Iran’s post-revolution government model and the challenges to its functioning’ (Revista Litteris, 2016), ‘The Western construction of the Middle East as an instrument of International Relations’ (Revista Esboços, 2016) and ‘36 years of stigmatization: Iran that few see’ (Mundorama, 2015).

Ricardo Prata Filho has a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Universidade de Brasília (UnB) and a Master’s degree in International Relations from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He is currently a PhD candidate in International Relations at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He is interested in contemporary political theories, gender, sexuality, queer theory, human rights, transnational networks and refuge. At the present, he is working with the overlaps between refuge, gender and sexuality through a performative approach to engage with eligibility issues and problems regarding gender and sexuality stereotypes in refuge processes. His focus is on dissident sexualities and genders.

Rodrigo Duque Estrada received his MA in International Relations in the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program (UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP) with the dissertation entitled ‘From the Political to Security and back again: Carl Schmitt in Critical Security Studies.’ He is currently substitute Professor of International Relations at Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel). His research topics include political philosophy, religion and international relations, the Western Sahara conflict and international security. He directed and produced the documentaries ‘A Thread of Hope: Independence of War in Western Sahara’ (2017) and ‘School without Censorship’ (2018). He is co-coordinator of GAE-OMAM (Strategic Analysis Group – Middle East and Muslim Africa) and founder of Nomos – Independent Publishing House and Film Company.

Shailesh Kumar is a Commonwealth Scholar, pursuing his PhD at the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London. He is an alumnus of Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) and NALSAR University of Law and holds an M.Phil. from the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His current research work focuses on the aesthetics of criminal courts in India from an access-to-justice perspective. His work on the art and architecture of the Supreme Court of India was published in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.

Thais de Bakker Castro is a PhD Candidate at the International Relations Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI-PUC-Rio). She has a Master’s Degree from the same institution, in which she researched gendered readings of freedom found in narratives about the Kurdish YPJ (Women’s Protection Units), and a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGF-UFRJ), in which she researched possible theoretical understandings of the nation-state through Judith Butler’s philosophy. She is currently conducting an interdisciplinary research project on political visualizations of global futures, combining themes such as political myths, metaphors, imagination and imaginaries.

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