Interview – Kai Michael Kenkel
Kai Michael Kenkel talks about shifts in UN peacekeeping missions and the role of the UN and member states, as well as Brazil’s role in the global order.
Interview – Pedro Frizo
Development practitioner Pedro Frizo talks about his work with Amazonian communities, efforts to develop businesses in the region and the concept of bioeconomy.
Visa Policies as Externalisation Practices in the Global South
It is key to engage in a more ample debate over how visa policies and other practices in the Global South contribute in shifting these countries’ borders.
Interview – Gabriel Passetti
Gabriel Passetti highlights the historic role of the British Empire in Latin America and New Zealand, and inter-American relations from the 19th century to the present day.
Interview – Rubens Ricupero
Former Minister and Secretary General of UNCTAD, Rubens Ricupero, discusses Brazilian foreign policy and diplomacy, today’s environmental agenda, and the Real Plan.
The Pandemic in Brazil: Normality as Necropolitics
COVID has caused social chaos in Brazil, and a discourse of return to normality and valorization of the economy to the detriment of public health is being headed by the country’s highest authority.
Higher Education and Race Relations in Brazil
Brazil faces an offensive on public universities caused by the cuts in investment on scientific research.
Opinion – Bolsonaro’s Green and Yellow Guards
The green and yellow guards are the eyes and mouths of a cultural revolution – using ordinary citizens to monitor the behaviour of people and institutions.
Interview – Miguel Dhenin
Miguel Dhenin talks about the military’s role in public services and politics in Brazil, as well as the ‘strategic environment’ in the Brazilian context.
Review – Status and the Rise of Brazil
This ambitious book provides a useful analysis of Brazil’s foreign policy and the dilemmas its status presents, but largely reproduces traditional perspectives.
