Vol. 46, N° 1, Jan/abr, 2024

About the Authors

Bruno Corrêa Hendler is an Adjunct professor of the undergraduate and graduate courses in International Relations at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). PhD in International Political Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PEPIUFRJ). M.A. in International Relations at the Brasília University (UnB, 2012) and Bachelor in International Relations at the Centro Universitário Curitiba (Unicuritiba, 2010). Coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Research Group (GEAP-UFSM) and researcher member of the Political Economy of World-Systems research group (UFSC) and the LabChina research group, linked to PEPI-UFRJ. Academic research and publications in the following areas: International Politics; International Political Economy; PoliticalEconomy of World-Systems; China-Southeast Asia and China-Latin America relations.

Gabriela Tamiris Rosa is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in International Political Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PEPI-UFRJ), supported by a CAPES-DS scholarship. She holds a Master’s degree from the Graduate Program in International Relations at the Federal University of Santa Maria (PPGRIUFSM) (2021-2023) and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the same university (2016-2021). Currently, she is a researcher at the LabChina Group (UFRJ) and the Asia-Pacific Studies Group (GEAP/UFSM). Her research interests encompass International Political Economy, Great Power Politics, and the Political Economy of China. She has published research on power and hegemony approaches and on Sino-US relations.

Isa Lima Mendes is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. She holds a PhD in International Politics from the same institution, with an emphasis on Conflict, Violence and Pacification, and a BA in Political Science from the University of Houston, USA, with minors in Economics and Latin American Studies.

Luiza Rodrigues Mateo holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from São Paulo State University (2008), a Master’s (2011) and a PhD (2017) in International Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program (São Paulo State University, State University of Campinas and the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo), with a period abroad at Georgetown University. She teaches in the undergraduate courses in International Relations and in the Professional Master’s in Global Governance and International Policy Formulation at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. She is a researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology for Studies in the United States (INCT-INEU), focusing on contemporary international policy, US foreign policy, foreign aid and development cooperation. 

Manuela Trindade Viana is Assistant Professor of the Department of International Relations at the Pontifical Xavierian University (PUJ) in Bogotá, Colombia. She holds a PhD in International Relations at the International Relations Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio). Manuela is co-founder of the blog “erRante, o Internacional fora do lugar”; and co-editor of the journal Monções. She is also part of the research team at the Center on Democracy and the Armed Forces (NEDEFA) and, since 2017, she is Research Fellow of the Centre for Military Studies (CEMIS) at the Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research interests include critical perspectives on how state violence is transnationally professionalized, distributed and legitimized in Latin America.

Michael Marks is a Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Studies at Willamette University. Prof. Marks’ areas of research include the use of metaphors in international relations theory and global discourse and the politics of everyday international relations. Before retiring Prof. Marks taught classes on international relations, comparative politics, American and European foreign policy, political discourse, and everyday international relations.

Nicholas Onuf is Professor Emeritus, Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University, Miami. He is author of World of Our Making (1989), The Republican Legacy in International Thought (1998), International Legal Theory (2008), Making Sense, Making Worlds (2013), The Mightie Frame (2018), and International Theory at the Margins (2023). With his brother, Peter Onuf, he is author of Federal Union, Modern World (1993) and Nations, Markets and War (2006). He has also edited or co-edited five books, including, most recently, the SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations (2018). As Nicholas Greenwood, he wrote and self-published a novel called The Hairy Saint (2020).

Pedro Lange Machado  holds a Ph.D. in Political Science by the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ) with a two-year doctoral stay at the Latin American Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin (LAI/FUBerlin), funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in International Relations, from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF) and Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), respectively. His research focuses on the political consequences of financial globalization and financialization, especially for developing countries. From an International Political Economy approach, his main publications address the modus operandi of credit rating agencies and its repercussions on national political processes.

Roberto Vilchez Yamato  is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations (IRI) at PUC-Rio. He holds a PhD in International Relations from IRI/PUCRio, a PhD from Birkbeck Law School, University of London, a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences/International Relations from PUC-SP and a Master’s Degree in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. He has a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Law from PUC-SP and a post-doctorate in Theory and Philosophy of Law from UERJ. His research interests include International Relations Theory, Interdisciplinary Studies of International Law and International Relations, deconstruction, post-foundational, post-colonial and decolonial thoughts, human rights, migration and refugee studies.

Stéfano Mariotto de Moura is a PhD candidate in the Postgraduate Programme in International Strategic Studies at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (PPGEEI/UFRGS), Brazil. He has a master's degree and a lato sensu specialization also from PPGEEI. He is a journalist who graduated at UFRGS with a university extension in the area by Universidad de Navarra / O Estado de S. Paulo. He researches topics related to the political economy of data, such as big tech companies and internet governance, the global information system, think tanks and ideology. He adopts the Critical Theory perspective in hir work, especially the heuristic mechanisms of Robert Cox's historical structures.

Victor Coutinho Lage is professor at the Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences (IHAC), and of the Graduate Program of International Relations (PPGRI), both at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Rotating editor-in-chief of International Political Sociology; leader of the research group Interpretações do Brasil e Marcadores de Discriminação em Perspectiva Global; and co-founder of the website errante, o Internacional fora do lugar (errante.blog). Victor holds a PhD in International Relations from PUC-Rio. His research interests are situated in relation to political philosophy and theory; modernity and markers of discrimination; and interpretations of Brazil.

William Wuttke Martins holds a Bachelor in International Relations at the Federal University of Santa Maria (2020). He is currently a lato sensu graduate student in Globalization, Power and Society at the São Paulo School of Sociology and Politics Foundation (FESPSP). He participated in the organization and writing of academic guides for UFSM Model United Nations (UFSMUN) events between 2019 and 2020. He is interested in research in the areas of sociology and international relations, especially in topics related to religion in international relations, theories of secularization and modernization, Islamic religious revivalism and ethno-religious conflicts, with emphasis on countries and/or regions with a population of Muslim majority.

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