In a change of pace, Ecuador’s runoff presidential election brought conservative businessman Guillermo Lasso to office. But the country’s...
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Brazil’s daily COVID-19 deaths passed 4,000 for first time this week, while President Jair Bolsonaro focused on firing his defense minister;...
Oliver Stuenkel Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Facing his most severe political crisis since taking office in 2019, Brazil’s far-right president...
Justice Fachin’s decision is unlikely to be overturned, and Lula is already a de-facto candidate for the 2022 presidential election and, in...
Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images) As center-left leaders in Europe and the U.S. prioritize the fight against climate change, the same cannot...
Photo by Andre Borges/NurPhoto via Getty Images BY OLIVER STUENKEL MARCH 8, 2021 Jair Bolsonaro has so far fallen short of the worst doomsday...
Book Description Using decades of their own insight into teaching undergraduate International Relations (IR) courses, leading experts offer an...
So far, policymakers have maintained strong ties with both nations. In 2021, they may face a point of no return. BY OLIVER STUENKEL | FEBRUARY...
OLIVER STUENKEL In Brazil, the highly divisive government led by President Jair Bolsonaro is merely the symptom of a longer pattern of...
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 04: IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank Group President David Malpass. (Photo by...
Can Biden Heal a Fractured Hemisphere? By Oliver Stuenkel January 28, 2021 On the campaign trail, U.S. President Joe Biden famously described the...
An explosion caused by a police munition is seen while supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL | JANUARY 11, 2021 Biden can learn important lessons from Europe’s failure to coax Brazil into moderating its environmental...
Oliver Stuenkel (2020) The making of global international relations: origins and evolution of IR at its centenary, Global Affairs, DOI: 10...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL | DECEMBER 2, 2020 Bolsonaro looks beatable in 2022 if Brazil’s opposition manages to overcome its internal divisions...
By Oliver Stuenkel November 20, 2020 In what has become a yearly ritual, columnists in Western newspapers used this week’s BRICS’ Leaders...
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Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel is a political analyst, speaker and a Professor at the School of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo. He is also a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, a non-resident Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, and a columnist for Estado de São Paulo and Americas Quarterly. His research focuses on geopolitics and global order, Brazilian foreign policy, Latin American politics and emerging powers. He is the author of several books about geopolitics, including The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (Lexington) and the Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order (Polity).BOOK: POST-WESTERN WORLD
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