Vol. 47, Nº 3, Set/Dec, 2025

About the Authors

Amanda Krein Antonette is a Master in International Relations and PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in International Relations at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). Her research focuses on International Political Economy, Feminist Economics, and Feminist Theory of International Relations. CAPES/

André Moreira Cunha is a Full Professor at the Department of Economics and International Relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, and Research Fellow at National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil. He earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Campinas - UNICAMP. He was an academic visitor at Cambridge University, Leiden University, Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), among others. His research focuses on international economics and development studies. His work has been featured in leading journals such as Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Development and Change, New Political Economy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, America Latina Hoy, Cepal Review.

Christian de Almeida Brandão holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Federal University of Sergipe (2021) and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2024). He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco and a professor of International Relations at Uninassau. In addition, he serves as a doctoral assistant in the project ‘Making Autonomous Sustainable Trade Regulations Work for Everyone,’ a partnership between the Getulio Vargas Foundation and the Swiss Network for International Studies. His main research interests include the European integration process, with a focus on the European Union’s environmental and energy policies.

Eduardo da Nóbrega Monteiro is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), specializing in Comparative Politics and Political Theory. He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and a specialization in Media and Politics from CLACSO/UERJ. Eduardo has lectured on Latin American political systems and served as a teaching assistant on multiple undergraduate courses. He is currently a country expert for the V-Dem Institute and has contributed to global research projects such as the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. His research interests include media and politics, populism, citizenship, and foreign policy in Latin America. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences across the Americas.

Giovanna de Lima Pereira is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Master’s degree in International Relations from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Amazonia (UNAMA). Currently a member of the research group linked to GEPPIC/CNPq (Research Group on Strategic Studies and Contemporary International Politics) - The Power of Ideas and the Formation of Liberal Institutes in Latin America.

Hugo Benevides de Almeida is an undergraduate in the Department of International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). From 2022 to 2024, he volunteered as a researcher in the Project titled ‘Childhoods Between the Lines: Representations of Child Combatants from the North-South Global Relationship.’ Currently, he serves as a Political Intern at the British Consulate-General in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research interests encompass international relations theory and critical security studies, with a particular emphasis on childhood studies and the studies of militarization.

Jana Tabak is an Assistant Professor in the International Relations Department at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research delves into critical international relations theories and critical security studies, with a specific emphasis on critical childhood studies and militarism. Her prominent works include The Child and the World: Child-Soldiers and the Claim for Progress (University of Georgia Press, 2020), the co-edited volume Childhoods in Peace and Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and two co-edited Special Issues in Critical Military Studies: ‘Everyday modalities of war: the circulation of security practices in local and global perspectives’ (2024) and Childhood (‘Children, Childhoods and Everyday Militarisms’ 2020).

João Paulo Nicolini Gabriel is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science at UFMG. Ph.D. in Political Science (cotutelle) from UFMG and Université Catholique de Louvain (FUCaM Mons), under a CAPES/PrInt scholarship and in accordance with UFMG Resolution No. 16/2019. His dissertation, The Middle Power Trap and the Struggle for Status, received the 2024 CAPES/MFA Award for Best Dissertation in Political Science and International Relations. He holds an M.A. in International Relations (San Tiago Dantas Program – UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP) and a B.A. from PUC-SP. His research focuses on science, technology, and innovation (STI), especially nuclear development in emerging powers.

Júlia Sampaio Mendes de Assis is an undergraduate student majoring in International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She was a research fellow under the Institutional Scientific Initiation Scholarship (PIBIC-UERJ) for the project ‘Childhoods Between the Lines: Representation of Child Combatants in the Global North-South Relationship’ from 2022-2024. Additionally, she is a member of the Childhood in International Relations Study Group (GeiRI Brasil). She received an Honourable Mention in the 32nd UERJ Scientific Initiation Week for my presentation titled ‘The Militarization of Childhood and the Military Recruitment of Children in the United Kingdom.‘ Her current research focuses on International Relations Theory, Critical Security Studies, and International Organizations.

Julio César Díaz Calderón (Elle/They/Them) is a trans/feminist activist-scholar, poet, and street educator. They have been published in different peer-reviewed journals in International Relations, Gender Studies, Literature, and Mathematics. They edited the special section on Imagined and lived in/securities through poetry in Critical Studies on Security (with Ahmad Qais Munhazim 2024), and the special issue on El estudio de las Relaciones Internacionales desde perspectivas queer/cuir y trans/feministas in Relaciones Internacionales (with Gloria Cuesta Noguerales 2025). Currently, they are editing the spe- cial issues on Transnational Black Feminist Poetics/Politics for the International Feminist Journal of Politics (with K. Melchor Quick Hall) and Storytelling and International Relations: Pluriversality and the Undoing of Epistemic Violence for International Relations (with Elane Westfaul).

Kevin Parthenay is Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Tours (France). He is a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, 2022-2027) and a research associate at the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS), the Institut de Recherche Juridiques et Interdisciplinaires (IRJI) and OPALC/Sciences Po. He co-edits the ‘Latin America and the Caribbean’, section of the Annuaire Français des Relations Internationales (AFRI), with Elodie Brun (COLMEX), and the ‘regional multilateralism’ section of the Observatoire du Multilatéralisme (GRAM). He is a member of the editorial team of the journal Contemporary Politics. His research focuses on comparative regionalism, Latin America’s place in multilateralism, the foreign policy of Latin American states and democracy in Central America. His research has been published in the journals International Affairs, Global Studies Quarterly, Review of International Studies, Journal of European Integration, Foro Internacional, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée. He has published several books: A Political Sociology of Regionalisms (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), Crises in Latin America. Les Démocraties Déracinées (2020) and Politique de l’Amérique Latine (Bruylant, 2023, with Frédéric Louault). He has taught at Sciences Po since 2010 on Latin American International Relations and has taught at numerous Latin American universities (Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala).

Laura Pimentel Barbosa holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (USP) funded by CAPES. Her doctorate research focuses on American Think- Tanks, knowledge regimes, the evolution of conservative and progressive movements in the United States, and the effects of political polarization on US foreign policy in Latin America. She also holds an MA in Social Sciences from São Paulo State University (UNESP - Araraquara), where she conducted research on Hollywood films’ cinematic representations of the global war against terrorism. She has a BA in International Relations from UNESP - Franca.

Luiza Pecis Valenti is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics and International Relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics and an M.A. in International Political Economy, both from UFRGS. Her research focuses on development and sustainable finance, and on international political economy, with a particular emphasis on the economic development of peripheral countries and the challenges they face in the global system. Luiza is also a researcher at the Center for Studies in Creative Economy and Culture (NECCULT-UFRGS), the Center for Studies in Technology, Industry, and International Trade (NETIT-UFRGS), and the Research Group on Financialization and Development (FINDE-UFF). Luiza is also a researcher at the Center for Studies in Creative Economy and Culture (NECCULT-UFRGS), the Center for Studies in Technology, Industry, and International Trade (NETIT-UFRGS), the Research Group on Financialization and Development (FINDE-UFF), and the Center for Development and Sustainable Finance (DEFIS-UFRGS).

Luiza Peruffo is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics and International Relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. She earned a Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge and an M.A. in Development Economics from UFRGS. Her research focuses on international political economy, with an emphasis on the international monetary and financial system and the challenges faced by emerging economies. Her work has been featured in leading journals such as New Political Economy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, and Journal of Economic Issues.

Marcos do Vale Araujo is currently pursuing a PhD in International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGRI-UERJ), where he also earned his Master’s degree in the same field. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Defense and International Strategic Management from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IRID-UFRJ). He also serves as an associate researcher at the Media, Culture, and International Relations Studies Laboratory (LEMCRI / CNPq / UERJ) and the Asia Studies Laboratory (LabÁsia/ CNPq / UERJ). His research interests encompass Critical Childhood Studies, Critical Military Studies, and Critical Security Studies, with a focus on the militarization of children and the politics surrounding child soldiers.

Maria Deusdédite da Silva Neta holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), João Pessoa, PB, Brazil. She worked as a student researcher in the areas of institutional changes and Brazilian external accounts.

Mariana Pimenta Oliveira Baccarini is a Professor in the Department of International Relations and the Graduate Program in Political Science and International Relations at the Federal University of Paraíba. She is currently focused on the study of International Institutions and Organizations; processes of institutional change; Peace Studies (art and politics); and feminism. Coordinator of the Institutional Change Research Group (PEMI). She is a member of the Rede de Pesquisa em Paz, Conflitos e Estudos Críticos de Segurança and the Latin American Network MulheRis + MujeRis. Her latest publications are: Baccarini, M., and Gonçalves, P. 2025. Brazilian autonomy in the quest for United Nations Security Council reform. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (Online), 68, 1–26.

Marta Tawil is research professor at the Center for International Studies of El Colegio de Mexico, in International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Contemporary Middle East Politics and Mexico’s relations with the Middle East. About those themes, she has published in national and international academic journals and magazines. She obtained a Masters’s degree (DEA) on Comparative Politics in the Arab and Muslim world and a PhD degree in Political Science and International Relations - both at Sciences Po Paris. She coedited the volume El Fin de un Sueño Secumar: Religion y Relaciones Internacionales en el Cambio de Siglo (2012). She is the author of the book Siria: Poder Regional, Legitimidad y Politica Exterior 1996-2015 (2016) and co-editor of the book Latin American Foreign Policies Towards the Middle East: Actors, Contexts and Trends (2016).

Nathalia Williany Lopes de Sousa is a Master’s student in International Relations at the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program (UNESP, UNICAMP, and PUC-SP). Scholarship holder of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). She is currently dedicated to the study of Indigenous issues, with an emphasis on the Yanomami people and has experience in social initiatives related to Human Rights in Latin America, with a focus on traditional communities, race and gender.

Pascoal Teófilo Carvalho Gonçalves is a professor in the Department of International Relations at the Federal University of Paraíba and conducts research in sustainable development, the international diffusion of public policies, data analysis, and Python programming. He led the development of a database comprising the collection of presidential speeches from the Library of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil, adapted for computational analysis and available under Discursos presidentes civis do Brasil - 1985-2022. He is affiliated with the Center for Public Policy and Sustainable Development at UFPB and contributes to the Innovation Project for the Development of the International Cooperation Monitoring System of the Paraíba Sem Fronteiras Program. His latest publications are: Baccarini, M., and Gonçalves, P. 2025. Brazilian autonomy in the quest for United Nations Security Council reform. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (Online), 68, 1-26. PDPG scholarship holder.

Raquel Araújo de Jesus holds a PhD in International Relations from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), with a doctoral exchange period (PDSE CAPES) at the Faculty of International, Political and Urban Studies at Universidad del Rosario, Colombia. She is a collaborating researcher at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), affiliated with the MIGREF Research Group, and currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). She is also a member of the Colombian Network of International Relations (Redintercol) and was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University (2025). Her research takes an inter- disciplinary approach and focuses on forced displacement and resistance of Indigenous and Afrodescendant communities in the Colombian Pacific.

Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He coordinates Margem – Research Group on Democracy and Justice and is a fellow at INCT - Digital Democracy. He is also an asso- ciate researcher and a long-term collaborator of the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance. He is a CNPq fellow (1D). His interests include Democratic Theory, Contentious Politics, and Political Communication. He is one of the authors of Algorithmic Institutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2023) and one of the editors of Crises of Democracy and the Public Sphere (Editora UFMG, 2023) and of Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022), among other books and several journal publications.

Thayná Fernandes Alves Ribeiro is a PhD student in the Postgraduate Program in Maritime Studies at the Brazilian Naval War College (PPGEM/EGN), with research focused on the Australian Nuclear-Powered Conventionally Armed Submarine Development Program within the strategic partnership between Australia, The United Kingdom and The United States (AUKUS). She holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Defence and Security Studies at the Fluminense Federal University (PPGEST/UFF), and a Bachelor’s degree in Defence and International Strategic Management from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She is a volunteer researcher at the Geopolitics Group of the Núcleo de Avaliação da Conjuntura (NAC) at the Brazilian Naval War College (EGN). Her research interests are Geopolitics, Nuclear Energy, Defence, International Relations and International Security.

Viktor Chagas is an associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies and a researcher in the Graduate Program in Communication at Fluminense Federal University, Brazil. He is also an associate member of the Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology for Digital Democracy (INCT.DD). He earned his PhD in History, Politics, and Cultural Assets from the Getulio Vargas Foundation. He is the editor of the collections A Cultura dos Memes and A Cultura dos Memes no Brasil and the founder of the #MUSEUdeMEMES. For the past ten years, he has been dedicated to investigating the relationship between humor and politics, particularly through the lens of internet memes.

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