Vol. 42, N° 1, Jan/Apr, 2020

About the authors

Breno Pauli Medeiros is a Ph.D. student of the Military Science Postgraduate Program (PPGCM) of the Brazilian Army Command and General Staff College (ECEME). He holds a CAPES Scholarship and is member of the project ‘Science, Technology and Innovation in Defense: Cybernetics and National Defense,’ approved by Public Notice 27/2018, Support Program for Teaching and Scientific and Technological Research in National Defense – PRO-DEFENSE IV. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geography from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and a Master’s degree in military sciences from PPGCM, where he defended the dissertation ‘Cyberspace and International Relations: Towards the Construction of a New Paradigm?’ from which this article was adapted. He serves as assistant academic coordinator of the thematic area ‘Cyber Defense’ of the Military Observatory of Praia Vermelha (OMPV).

Camila Vidal is an International Relations Professor in the Economy and International Relations Department of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). She holds a doctorate and master’s degree from the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) and an undergraduate degree in International Relations from Florida International University. She leads two research groups: ‘O Poder das ideias e a formação de institutos liberais na América Latina’ and ‘Intervenções dos EUA na América Latina’ (part of GEPPIC/UFSC). Recent publications include ‘Políticas Extremadas: Polarização Partidária e Questões Sociais nos Estados Unidos,’ Revista de Sociologia e Política, 2018; ‘and ‘Polarização Partidária e Política Externa nos Estados Unidos,’ RBCP, 2018.

Carla Rodrigues is Professor of Ethics of the Department of Philosophy of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where she is also researcher in the Postgraduate Program of the Institute of Philosophyand the Social Sciences. She has focused on the study of the thought of Judith Butler. She is recipient of a productivity fellowship from FAPERJ for the project ‘Judith Butler: do gênero à crítica da violência de estado’ (Judith Butler: From Gender to the Critique of State Violence). She is member of the research area ‘Gender, race and coloniality’ in the Postgraduate Program in Philosophy and directs the laboratory Filosofias do tempo do agora, which is catalogued in the Directory of Research Groups of CNPq. She received her doctorate and masters degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

Dirce Eleonora Nigro Solis is full professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She is a researcher in Philosophy and interdisciplinary areas with an emphasis on Ethics, Political Philosophy and Epistemology, currently developing the following themes: Contemporary French Philosophy, the thinking of Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction. She is coordinator of the ANPOF Working Group “Contemporary Philosophy of French Expression”; leader of the CNPQ research group “Architecture, Derrida and Approximations” together with Fernando Fuâo (UFRGS). She is author and organizer of several books, including Deconstruction and Architecture, an approach based on Jacques Derrida (2009); Derrida e Arquitetura (2014), Prison Specters (2019), Colonization Specters (2019) in addition to numerous articles and chapters of philosophy books.

Hugo Arend is a visiting professor at the graduate program on International Strategic Studies at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. His main research interests range from international security to the epistemology of the social sciences, departing from a Foucauldian and poststructuralist perspective. His latest publications include: ‘Hans Morgenthau in the “Cold War” dispositif: states, tragedy, and the international security imagination in the 20th century’ (Revista Relações Internacionais, Lisboa, vol. 58) and the book Tragédia, Ciência e Política da Verdade: uma arqueologia das Relações Internacionais (Porto Alegre: Editora Fi, 2018).

Jahde Lopez is an undergraduate student of International Relations at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) where she participates in the Maritime Policy and Law Research Laboratory (LABMAR). She held a scholarship as a scientific initiation scholar (FAPERGS) in 2017-2019 and is a member of the research group ‘O Poder das ideias e a formação de institutos liberais na América Latina.’ Her main research interests are US influence in Latin America and Dependency Theory. Recent published articles and book chapters include ‘Atuação de corporações estadunidenses no período ditatorial da América do Sul,’ Estudos em Relações Internacionais (Rio Grande: FURG), 2018; and ‘A securitização político-econômica na América do Sul e seus reflexos na Argentina durante o regime military,’ Interação, 2017.

Jean Tible is currently a professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo. He is author of Savage Marx (São Paulo, Editora Autonomia Literária, 2019) and Indigenous, Black, Feminist, Worker, Peasant, Gypsy, Palestinian, Trans Marx: A Savage Marx (São Paulo, n-1 Edições, 2019). He is also co-organizer of June: street power and net-works (Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2014), Cartographies of the emergency: new struggles in Brazil (FES, 2015) and Negri in the Tropics 23°26’14’’ (Autonomia Literária, Editora da Cidade e n-1 edições, 2017). Articles and books are available at https://usp-br.academia.edu/JeanTible

Luan Corrêa Brum holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG). He previously worked in the Research Group entitled ‘The Formation of Normative Orders in International Relations.’ He held a Scientific Initiation Scholarship (CNPq) in 2016-2018 and an Initiation in Technological Development and Innovation scholarship (PIBITI) in 2018-2019. He is part of the Research Group ‘O Poder das ideias e a formação de institutos liberais na América Latina.’ His main research interests are the history of North American foreign policy, neoliberalism in Latin America, and the influence of the USA on Latin American countries.

Luiz Rogério Franco Goldoni holds a Master’s and Doctorate in Political Science from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). He is Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Military Science (PPGCM) at the Brazilian Army Command and General Staff College (ECEME), teaching the following courses: ‘Defense Logistics,’ ‘Management and Public Policy in Defense’ and ‘Cyber Defense.’ He serves as academic coordinator of the Program’s research field ‘Defense Management: Public Policy, Economy and Industry’ and is researcher on the project ‘Science, Technology and Innovation in Defense: Cybernetics and National Defense,’ supported by CNPq (Public Note 27/2018, Support Program for Teaching and Scientific and Technological Research in National Defense – PRO-DEFENSE IV). He is coordinator of the thematic area ‘Cyber Defense’ of the Praia Vermelha Military Observatory (OMPV).

Marcelo Alves de Paula Lima holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, and a Master of Arts in History from the Universidade de São Paulo (FAPESP scholarship). He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (CAPES scholarship). His research is focused on the diplomatic relations between the Brazilian military regime and anti-communist regimes in Asia. He has also been a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich (FAPESP international scholarship), and a substitute professor of history at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2017/2).

Marcelo José Derzi Moraes received a doctorate in Philosophy from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He is assistant professor in the Department of Education of the Faculdade de Formação de Professores at UERJ. He directs the research project ‘Por uma filosofia descolonial’ (Toward a Decolonial Philosophy) and the extension project ‘Ressonâncias descoloniais em Filosofia e Educação’ (Decolonial Resonances in Philosophy and Education).

Marina Gisela Vitelli holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the National University of Rosario, Argentina, and has completed postdoctorate research in International Relations with the San Tiago Dantas postgraduate programme (UNESP- UNICAMP- PUCSP), with a grant from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). She is a Visiting Professor at EPPEN-UNIFESP (2018-2020), and a Professor at San Tiago Dantas. She is also a researcher for the Institute of Public Policies and International Relations (IPPRI-UNESP), and the Defence and Security Study Group (GEDES). She is co-editor of the Dicionário de Segurança e Defesa (2018, Editora UNESP). Her current research interests are Latin American civil-military relations, military missions, and regional defence cooperation.

Michael J. Shapiro is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa. Among his recent publications are Punctuations: How the Arts Think the Politica (Duke UP, 2019) and The Cinematic Political: Film Composition as Political Theory (Routledge, 2020). His current projects include The Aesthetics of Precarity (with Sam Opondo) and The Phenomenology of Religious Belief: Media, Philosophy and the Arts.

Mikelli Marzzini L. A. Ribeiro is Professor of International Relations in the Political Science Department of Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil). He was professor of Law in Bahia State University (Brazil) from 2013 until 2019, where he taught International Law. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil) and a Master’s Degree in International Relations from Paraiba State University (Brazil). During his Ph.D., he was visiting researcher at the European University Institute (Italy) and at Leiden University (The Netherlands). He has published articles related to human rights, emerging powers’ foreign policy and international institutions. His publications have focus especially on the Responsibility to Protect and humanitarian intervention.

Paulo Chamon is post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio), where he also teaches in the graduate and undergraduate programs. His research is in international political theory, particularly the role of the category of ‘time’ as a site of critical investigation. He also has a long-term interest in the category of ‘merit’ and the problems of desire and subjectivity in relation to modern politics. More recently, he has been working on the legacies of race development in the constitution of the problem-field of international politics in Brazil.

Paulo Sérgio Fracalanza has a Ph.D. in Economics at State University of Campinas (Unicamp), São Paulo, Brazil, with a Ph.D. internship at Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. He is currently Director of Institute of Economics at Unicamp, where he is also Professor in undergraduate and graduate Economic Theory disciplines. He is re-searcher at the Industrial Economics and Technology Center (NEIT) and Trade Union and Labour Studies Center (CESIT). He has experience in economics, with an emphasis on Industrial Organization, Labor Economics and Public Policy, focusing on the following topics: reduction of working hours, economics of innovation, evolutionary economics and Political Economy.

Rafael Haddock-Lobo is professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Postgraduate Program in Bioethics, Applied Ethics and Collective Health at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and professor in the Postgraduate Program in Philosophy at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He authored Da existência ao infinito: ensaios sobre Emmanuel Lévinas (Loyola/PUC-Rio, 2005), Derrida e o labirinto de inscrições (Zouk, 2009), Para um pensamento úmido: a filosofia a partir de Jacques Derrida (NAU/PUC-Rio, 2011) e Experiências abissais ou sobre as condições de impossibilidade do real (Via Verita, 2019). He directs the Laboratório ‘X’ de encruzilhadas filosóficas (IFCS-UFRJ/CNPq), the Encruzilhadas Seminar and the book series Coleção X published by Editora Ape’Ku. His most recent book is Os fantasmas da colônia: notas de desconstrução e filosofia popular brasileira (Ape’Ku, 2020).

Rosana Icassatti Corazza has a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Policy at State University of Campinas (Unicamp), São Paulo, Brazil, with an internship at Université Louis Pasteur (ULP, Strasbourg, France). She is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Geosciences at Unicamp, teaching undergraduate disciplines in Geography and Geology courses and graduate disciplines as a permanent faculty of the Postgraduate Program in Scientific and Technological Policy. She is a collaborating researcher at the Laboratory of Studies on Technological Change, Energy and Environment – Labmem and is vice-coordinator of Laboratory of Technologies and Social Transformations – LABTTS, both at IG-Unicamp. Over the last twenty years, she has developed research experience in interdisciplinary fields involving Economics, Science, Technology and Environment.

Thomas Clément Mercier was awarded a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Political Theory by King’s College London’s Department of War Studies in 2017. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at CEFRES/ Charles University (Prague), and will soon start a FONDECYT Fellowship at the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Santiago (Chile). His work has been published in journals such as Global Discourse, Oxford Literary Review, Derrida Today, Revue ITER, Parallax, Ostium, Demarcaciones, and CR: The New Centennial Review. He specializes in political thought and international studies, with a particular interest in the multi-layered problematics of democracy, violence and political resistance from the perspectives of deconstruction, Marxism, queer and decolonial thought. Among other projects, he’s currently working on the edition and publication of the correspondence between Louis Althusser and Jacques Derrida.

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