Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira holds an PhD in International Studies form the Old Dominion University. Currently, he is a professor of International Relational at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Graduate Program San Tiago Dantas (UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP) and Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado. He is author of the book “Brazil, the United States, and the South American Subsystem” (Lexington, 2012) and the “Neoconservative Thinking in the United States’ Foreign Policy” (UNESP, 2010).

João Paulo Nicolini Gabriel is a master in International Relations at Graduate Program San Tiago Dantas (UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP).