Bárbara C. Neves is a PhD Student and also obtained her M.A. at the Interinstitutional Graduate Program in International Relations “San Tiago Dantas” (UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP) with a CAPES Scholarship. The author graduated in International Relations by the “Universidade Estadual Paulista” – Franca, São Paulo, Brazil, accomplishing an academic exchange at the “Instituto Politécnico Nacional”, Mexico City – Mexico with a Santander Universities Scholarship. Neves is a researcher at the New Research Technologies Laboratory in International Relations (LANTRI), the Research Network in Regionalism and Integration (REPRI), and at the Regionalism Observatory (ODR), being interested in the following research themes: regionalism; south-american regionalism; infrastructural integration; Brazilian foreign policy and regional institutions.

Karen Honório is a professor in International Relations Bachelor´s and Contemporary International Relations Graduate Program at Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (Federal University for Latin American Integration – UNILA). She obtained a Phd an MA in International Relations at the Interinstitutional Graduate Program in International Relations “San Tiago Dantas” (UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP) with researches related to the Brazilian Foreign Policy for South America during Lula´s governments and the infrastructure dimension dynamics in the subcontinent. She co-lead a research group in Latin American Foreign Policy Analysis (Núcleo de Pesquisa em Política Externa Latino-Americana-NUPELA). For further information access her lattes CV.