Marcelo M. Valença is an Assistant Professor at the Brazilian Naval War College. He holds a Doctorate in International Relations (2010) and a J.D. (2004), both from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). His research focuses on the intersection of International Politics and International Law, including critical security studies, Brazilian foreign policy, critical military studies, multilateralism in world politics, and active learning in International Relations.

Daniel Edler Duarte is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of São Paulo (USP). Previously, he was CAPES/Pró-Defesa researcher at the Brazilian Naval War College (EGN). In 2019, Daniel received his PhD from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London (KCL) and was a Konrad Adenauer Fellow in European Studies at the Getulio Vargas Foundation School of Social Sciences (CPDOC/FGV) in Rio de Janeiro.