Study Group: The Global South and the Future of World Order (Harvard Kennedy School)
Harvard Students https://www.belfercenter.org/event/global-south-and-future-world-order This three-session Study Group, led by Belfer Center Visiting Scholar, Oliver Stuenkel, an Associate Professor at the Fundação Getulio Vargas in Brazil, examines the evolving role of the Global South in an increasingly multipolar world shaped by great power competition between the United States and China. This study group will analyze how […]
The new world order and the Global South (Oxford Review of Economic Policy)
https://academic.oup.com/oxrep/article/40/2/396/7691467 Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 40, Issue 2, Summer 2024, Pages 396–404, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grae008 Published: 12 June 2024 Abstract The shift of power away from the West is often seen as a key element of the crisis of liberal international order. The reluctance by most non-Western powers to side with the West vis-à-vis Russia’s invasion of Ukraine […]
Undergraduate Course: Brazilian Foreign Policy (FGVRI)
Course Description This course introduces students to the subject of Brazilian Foreign Policy by analyzing core concepts, ideas and challenges that have shaped the way we think about Brazil’s role in the world over the past two centuries. Illustrations will be drawn from international history and contemporary affairs. Course Objectives The objective of this course […]
Book chapter: What Does China’s Increased Influence in Latin America Mean for the United States?
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674270336 For decades Americans have described China as a rising power. That description no longer fits: China has already risen. What does this mean for the U.S.–China relationship? For the global economy and international security? Seeking to clarify central issues, provide historical perspective, and demystify stereotypes, Maria Adele Carrai, Jennifer Rudolph, and Michael Szonyi and […]
How Brazil embraced informal organizations (International Politics)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41311-022-00385-w Original Article Published: 28 April 2022 How Brazil embraced informal organizations Oliver Stuenkel International Politics (2022) Abstract Brazil’s foreign policy strategy traditionally focused on formal international organizations and ways to strengthen its role in them, symbolized by efforts to become a permanent UN Security Council member, and by accelerating voting reform in the Bretton […]
The BRICS Grouping (Oxford Research Encyclopedias)
The BRICS Grouping Oliver Stuenkel https://oxfordre.com/internationalstudies/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.001.0001/acrefore-9780190846626-e-505 https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.505 Published online: 28 January 2022 Summary The emergence of the BRICS grouping has been one of the most noteworthy yet misunderstood elements of global politics over the past decades. Despite its role in the transition toward a less Western-centric world order and the group’s surprising process of […]
Book chapter: The 5G Debate
https://www.routledge.com/International-Negotiation-and-Political-Narratives-A-Comparative-Study/Hampson-Narlikar/p/book/9781032066462 1st Edition International Negotiation and Political Narratives A Comparative Study Edited By Fen Osler Hampson, Amrita Narlikar Copyright Year 2022 —– Table of Contents Section I: Theories, Concepts, Approaches 1. Introduction: Narratives, Political Identity and International Negotiation Fen Osler Hampson and Amrita Narlikar 2. Bargaining in Muslim Arabia: Narrative Lessons From the Qoran, Hadith, […]
Capítulo de libro: América Latina en el Mundo Post-Occidental
https://www.catalonia.cl/libros/el-no-alineamiento-activo-y-america-latina/ EL NO ALINEAMIENTO ACTIVO Y AMÉRICA LATINA. UNA DOCTRINA PARA EL NUEVO SIGLO Las diversas perspectivas expuestas en este libro tienen un hilo conductor: una visión del mundo contemporáneo como un sistema internacional en transformación, con un poder hegemónico en declinación, nuevos actores y nuevas configuraciones de alianzas y rivalidades, así como nuevas […]
Undergraduate Course: Brazilian Foreign Policy
Photo: Argentina’s president Raúl Alfonsín and Brazil’s president José Sarney sign the “Iguazu Declaration” on November 30, 1985 Course Description This course introduces students to the subject of Brazilian Foreign Policy by analyzing core concepts, ideas and challenges that have shaped the way we think about Brazil’s role in the world over the past two centuries. […]
Undergraduate Course: Democracy Promotion and Its Discontents
Photo: Vladislav Klapin via Unsplash Course description This course introduces students to the rich and multi-faceted debates about democracy promotion among supporters and critics alike, and the evolution of democracy promotion as a foreign-policy tool since the early twentieth century. We will analyze core concepts, ideas and challenges that have shaped the way we think […]
Book Chapter: The Rise of China and the Post Western World in Latin America: What is in Store?
https://www.routledge.com/Latin-America-in-Global-International-Relations/Acharya-Deciancio-Tussie/p/book/9780367464707 Book Description Using decades of their own insight into teaching undergraduate International Relations (IR) courses, leading experts offer an introduction to IR thinking throughout history in Latin America, unfolding ideas, voices, concepts and approaches from the region that can contribute to the broader Global IR discussion. The book highlights and discuss the growing […]
Book chapter: Brazilian Narratives of Soft Power Before Bolsonaro
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/soft-power-internationalism/9780231195454 The term “soft power” was coined in 1990 to foreground a capacity in statecraft analogous to military might and economic coercion: getting others to want what you want. Emphasizing the magnetism of values, culture, and communication, this concept promised a future in which cultural institutes, development aid, public diplomacy, and trade policies replaced nuclear […]
Book review: “The Making of Global International Relations” by Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan
Oliver Stuenkel (2020) The making of global international relations: origins and evolution of IR at its centenary, Global Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2020.1789484 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23340460.2020.1789484?journalCode=rgaf20 In what is certainly one of the most ambitions International Relations books written over the past years, “The Making of Global International Relations”, by Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan, is addressing a […]
Undergraduate Seminar: Brazilian Foreign Policy (FGV RI)
Photo: Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, left, and US Vice President Joe Biden hold a bilateral meeting after she was sworn in for a second term, in Brasilia, Brazil in 1 January, 2015. (Associated Press) Course Description This course introduces students to the subject of Brazilian Foreign Policy by analyzing core concepts, ideas and challenges that […]
Undergraduate Seminar: Introduction to International Relations (FGV RI)
This course introduces students to the academic discipline of International Relations by focusing on core concepts, theories, and dynamics in world politics. Illustrations will be drawn from international history and contemporary affairs. The chief purpose of this course is to provide solid conceptual grounding for the various thematic IR theory courses students will take throughout […]
Book chapter: “Toward a ‘global IR’? A view from Brazil”
Chapter 7 Toward a ‘global IR’? A view from Brazil Oliver Stuenkel https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429356292?fbclid=IwAR1ZMPvLomSB_Iho2cegW8wH_TfK2iqWB7Nb6hyKAP_IX10XWEcryDyX5qE As the discipline of IR approaches its centenary, the need to address its Western-centric parochialism is more urgent than ever. Even in the United States, there is a growing perception that a wider range of perspectives should be included in order […]