Vol. 43, Nº 1, Jan./Apr., 2021

About the authors

Alana Camoça Gonçalves de Oliveira is a Postdoctoral fellow in Military Sciences at the School of High Command and General Staff of the Army (Brazil). She holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s Degree in International Political Economy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University (USA) and at Osaka University (Japan). She has published widely on China’s rise in the 21st century, China’s history, Sino-Japanese relations, Japan’s foreign and security policies, and territorial disputes in the East and South China Sea. She is currently developing research regarding China’s presence in Antarctica, China’s soft power and East Asia geopolitics, with a focus on China, Japan and US relations.

André Moreira Cunha is a Full Professor in the Department of Economics and International Relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and a researcher at the National Council for Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq) in Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Campinas (Unicamp) in Brazil. His research focuses on the macroeconomic aspects of international trade and finance; the impacts of globalization on Latin American countries, particularly Brazil; the economic development of emerging countries; and on the economics of culture and creativity. Dr. Cunha worked as economic advisor to the Far South Development Bank (BRDE) Board of Directors and was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), at Leiden University (Netherlands), at Fundación Ortega y Gasset (Spain), among other institutions.

Atos Dias is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). He has a Master’s degree in Public Management and International Cooperation from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the same university. He is also a member of Research Group on Hunger and International Relations (FomeRI/UFPB) and the Center of Regional and Development Studies and Research (D&R/UFPE). Research interests include the areas of International Political Economy, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Cooperation, and topics on agricultural and food security issues within the scope of International Relations.

Augusto W. M. Teixeira Júnior holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (UFPE) and a Postdoc in Military Sciences at the Brazilian Army Command and General Staff College (IMMECEME). He is a Political Science and International Relations Professor at the Federal University of Paraíba (PPGCPRI/UFPB) and an Associate researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology for Studies on the United States (INCT-INEU). He is a leader of the Strategic Studies and International Security Research Group (GEESI/ UFPB) and an Associate coordinator of the PROCAD-DEFESA project ‘Mísseis e Foguetes Na Defesa Nacional: O Sistema Astros como Elemento de Transformação Militar.’ He is also an alumni of the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies. His current research topics are conventional deterrence and anti-access and area denial (A2/AD). He recently published the paper ‘China in the contemporary world order: grand strategy, military modernization, and balance of power.’

Daniele Benzi holds a Ph.D. in Science, Technology and Society from Unical in Italy and holds an MSc in Latin American Studies from UNAM in Mexico. He was a Professor at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) in Mexico, at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), the Universidad Central del Ecuador (UCE), and the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (UASB) in Ecuador. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Brazil. He is the author of ALBA-TCP: Anatomía de la integración que no fue, published in 2017. His research interests concentrate on the intersection between Latin American regionalism and critical social theory, global political economy and macro-historical sociology.

Felipe Ferreira de Oliveira Rocha (CNPq scholarship) is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). He holds a Master’s degree (2017) in Political Science from the same institution and a Bachelor’s degree (2015) in International Relations from the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS). In his Master’s dissertation, he analysed how frequent were the concepts of Latin America and South America in the discourse of Brazilian foreign policymakers. Currently, in his Ph.D. thesis, he aims to explore, describe, and compare the thematic emphases of Brazilian Presidents 54 vol. 43(1) Jan/Apr 2021 Rocha & Medeiros https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and Foreign Ministers (1995-2019). His research interests cover Brazilian foreign policy, foreign policy analysis, and data analysis.

Henry Iure de Paiva Silva obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He is a Political Science and International Relations Professor at the Federal University of Paraíba (DRI/PPGCPRI/UFPB) and a leader of the Energy Security Studies Group at the same university (GESEne/UFPB). He is Coordinator of the CHAMADA UNIVERSAL CNPq project ‘Análise dos acordos internacionais firmados na área de energia durante os governos Collor e Dilma (1990-2016).’ His current research topics are energy security and energy international cooperation. He recently published the paper ‘The place of renewable sources in Brazil’s relationship with ‘RICS’ in the energy area: an analysis of bilateral agenda and summit declarations (1990-2018).’

José Guadalupe Gandarilla Salgado, Ph.D. in Political Philosophy, is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is a Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Latin American Studies at UNAM and a Visiting Professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Peru, and Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in Bolívia. His work Asedios a la totalidad: Poder y política en la modernidad, desde un encare de-colonial (Barcelona, Anthropos/CEIICH-UNAM, published in 2012) obtained Honourable Mention in the 8th edition of the Liberator Award for Critical Thought of 2012, and obtained the Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought by from the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2015. His most recent book is Colonialismo neoliberal: Modernidad, devastación y automatismo de mercado (Buenos Aires, Herramienta, published in 2018). He is Director of the journal Memoria: Revista de crítica militante.

Lívia Milani holds Ph.D. and Master’s degrees from the Interinstitutional Graduate Program in International Relations San Tiago Dantas from the UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP universities. She was a Lecturer at the Department of International Relations at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), at the São Paulo State University (UNESP) and, in the period between September 2018 and May 2019, was a Visiting Researcher at the Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), with a grant from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Her doctoral research was also funded by FAPESP. She is a member of the National Institute of Science and Technology for Studies on the United States (INCT-INEU) and the Grupo de Estudos de Defesa e Segurança Internacional (GEDES). Her current research interests are US-Latin American relations, US foreign policy and security cooperation in South America.

Luan Santos is an Assistant Professor of the Production Engineering Program from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PEP/COPPE/UFRJ). He holds a Ph.D. and a MSc in Environmental and Energy Planning from the PPE/COPPE/UFRJ and a B.A. in Mathematics from IME/UFF and in Business Administration from the FACC/UFRJ. His main research areas are climate policy, green finance, carbon pricing, energy and environmental planning, and applied mathematics.

Luiza Peruffo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and International Relations and a Collaborator Professor in the Post-Graduate Programme in International Strategic Studies at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge and a M.A. in Development Economics from UFRGS. Her main research interests are focused on the area of international political economy, especially on the international monetary and financial system and the challenges faced by emerging economies. She leads a research project in this area at the NEBRICS (Centre for BRICS studies at UFRGS). Dr. Peruffo worked as Senior Economics and Trade Officer at the British Embassy in Brasília from 2016 to 2018.

Marcelo de Almeida Medeiros received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Grenoble (1997) and his Habilitation Thesis from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris – Sciences Po (2010). He is a Full Professor of Comparative International Politics at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Recife-Brazil, a PQ-1C Research Fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq (Brasília – Brazil), and Leader of the Center for Comparative Policy and International Relations Studies – NEPI/UFPE/CNPq. His research interests cover International Politics and Comparative Government, especially the following topics: Mercosur, Brazilian foreign policy, European Union, French foreign policy, institutions, governance and democracy.

María Haydeé García Bravo is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities (CEIICH) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has been co-coordinator of the Diploma in Interdisciplinary Research program and she is a Professor at the Postgraduate Program in Arts and Design. Her research areas are the history and epistemology of the social sciences and the theory and methodology of interdisciplinary research, in particular on the critical Latin American perspectives. She has published articles and book chapters on those topics. She has given presentations at conferences and workshops on the issue of interdisciplinarity in Argentina, Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico.

María Victoria Alvarez is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the National University of Rosario (UNR) in Argentina, the Director of the Study Group on the European Union at the UNR and the Academic Coordinator of a Jean Monnet Project (Erasmus+ Programme). She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil), the Jean Monnet EU Centre of Excellence–University of Pittsburgh (USA) and at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary 76 vol. 43(1) Jan/Apr 2021 Alvarez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Evaluation of Public Policies, Sciences Po–Paris (France). Her research areas of interest include European Union politics and institutions, Euroscepticism, EU-Latin America relations, Latin American regionalism, and comparative regionalism. Her latest publications include ‘“Stranger Things”: The Future of Latin American Regionalism’ (Conjuntura Austral, September 2020).

Pedro Perfeito da Silva is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Central European University (CEU) and a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Austria. He holds a M.A. in Economics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). His main research interests are focused on political economy and macroeconomics, especially on the politics of capital flows management, and on monetary policy and State-owned credit supply to explain the challenges faced by emerging and developing countries. Pedro worked as a temporary instructor at UFRGS and was a visiting researcher at the Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and the Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia).

Silvia Ferabolli is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics and International Relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. Her main publications include Arab regionalism: a post-structural perspective (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics 2014, hardcover; 2016, paperback), Relações Internacionais do Mundo Árabe: os desafios para a realização da utopia pan-arabista (Juruá 1st ed., 2009; 2nd ed., 2013) and ‘Regions that matter: the ArabSouth American interregional space’ (Third World Quarterly, 2017). She is the current Coordinator of the Graduate Programme in International Strategic Studies at UFRGS.

Thauan Santos is an Assistant Professor of the Graduate Programme in Maritime Studies at the Brazilian Naval War College (PPGEM/EGN). He holds a Ph.D. in Energy Planning from the PPE/COPPE/UFRJ, an M.A. in International Relations from IRI/PUC-Rio, and a BA in Economics from IE/UFRJ. His main research areas are sustainable development, energy, ocean governance, economy of the sea, and regional integration.

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