The First Four Years - Center for International Relations

Center for International Relations – The First 4 Years
The Center for International Relations at FGV was founded in 2009 to foster the study of
global history and international politics. Our twin goals are to promote high-quality scholarly work
and to contribute to public debate on the contemporary global order.
We are a unit of the FGV School of History and the Social Sciences (CPDOC) that
simultaneously operates in Rio and São Paulo.
The Center draws heavily on CPDOC’s forty-year history as a leading holder of private
archives and oral histories of contemporary Brazil. We have built on the existing collection by
attracting new donations and by conducting interviews with the policymakers who shape Brazil’s
foreign relations today. All the materials are being progressively digitized and made available
online.
The research interests of our faculty in the past four years included the role of rising powers
in global order, Europe seen from the outside, nuclear politics, and the past and present of Brazil’s
foreign relations. Our visiting fellows have expanded the thematic reach of what we do by bringing
in work on international political economy, IR theory and the history of Brazil in the world.
We offer teaching through a minor degree in International Relations at undergraduate level
for all FGV schools and provide supervision for master and doctoral students within our School’s
“History and Politics” program. A one-year executive diploma trains professionals who work in the
private sector, in public administration, in law firms or the media.
The Center also exploits FGV’s standing as a think-tank to engage the policy world. We do
this through a series of workshops and seminars that seek to bridge the gap between academia and
government. Most of these events are by invitation only and operate under Chatham House rules,
but we do our best to publicize major findings widely.
We are very thankful to the scholars, practitioners and students from around the globe who
have turned the Center into such a lively hub for the study and debate of world politics.
This Center for International Relations also owes a great debt to the generosity of its
sponsors. We have been lucky to count on a stream of research funding from the private sector and
public bodies in Brazil and abroad. We are equally indebted to our colleagues within the FGV
community who made the Center possible in the first place.
Our collective goal for the next four years is to translate the many research activities of the
past years into scholarly publications, make new faculty appointments and further consolidate FGV
as a place where you can study the academic disciplines of International Relations and Global
History in Brazil.
Matias Spektor
Center for International Relations
Fundação Getulio Vargas
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Content
Research projects (2009-12) .............................................................................................................. 4
“Emerging Powers in Global Governance” ..................................................................................... 4
“Global Norm Evolution and the Responsibility to Protect” ........................................................... 4
“Europe in the World” ..................................................................................................................... 4
“Think Tanks, Governance and Policy Advice” .............................................................................. 4
“History of Rising Brazil”................................................................................................................ 4
“Brazil and Argentina in the Global Nuclear Order” ....................................................................... 5
“US-Brazil Relations from Cardoso to Lula” .................................................................................. 5
“Brazil Donates” .............................................................................................................................. 5
“Brazil’s Strategic Dilemmas” ......................................................................................................... 5
Team .................................................................................................................................................... 6
Faculty.............................................................................................................................................. 6
Post-Doc Fellows ............................................................................................................................. 6
Research Assistants .......................................................................................................................... 6
Visiting Fellows ............................................................................................................................... 7
Events (2009-12) ................................................................................................................................. 8
Publications (2009-12)........................................................................................................................ 8
Pocket Books ..................................................................................................................................... 11
Funding (approximate, 2009-12) .................................................................................................... 12
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Research projects
“Emerging Powers in Global Governance”
Oliver Stuenkel
This project deals with the changing role of emerging countries in existing global governance
structures. How do emerging-power perspective impact on the institutions and conceptions of order
and justice that structure world politics today?
“Global Norm Evolution and the Responsibility to Protect”
Oliver Stuenkel, Marcos Tourinho, Matias Spektor
This is a multi-year, multi-partner research program that seeks to understand current
transformations in the norm of humanitarian intervention. The core research question deals with the
evolving conceptions of legitimate intervention among the major powers. Findings will appear in
two edited volumes.
“Europe in the World”
Elena Lazarou
This project studies the impact of global transformations – in particular the changing distribution of
power and the rise of transnational challenges – on the EU. It also seeks to map out how nonEuropean powers see the current trajectory of united Europe in international affairs. This project
aims to promote the field of European Studies in Brazil.
“Think Tanks, Governance and Policy Advice”
Elena Lazarou
This project asks questions about the role of think tanks – and their global connections – in the way
economic and social policies are developed in Brazil.
“History of Rising Brazil”
Matias Spektor
Forty years ago Brazil underwent its first cycle of political ascent in international relations. In the
process it reset relations with South America, Africa, the Middle East and the United States. This
project accounts for the rise and fall of “emerging” Brazil as it evolved in the 1970s. Findings have
appeared in two books, Kissinger e o Brasil (2009) and Azeredo da Silveira: um depoimento (2010).
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“Brazil and Argentina in the Global Nuclear Order”
Eduardo Achilles, Rodrigo Mallea, Carlo Patti, Matias Spektor
This is a multi-year research program that seeks to retrieve, declassify and circulate primary sources
pertaining to the nuclear trajectories of Brazil and Argentina. The program has sponsored seminars,
workshops, graduate supervision, and some 200 hours of oral history interviews.
“US-Brazil Relations from Cardoso to Lula”
Matias Spektor
This project explores how changes in the international system and in the domestic politics of Brazil
and the United States since the 1990s impacted on the evolution of ties between the two countries.
Work included the declassification of thousand of official documents and extensive in-depth
interviews. Major findings will appear in a self-authored book, “18 Dias” (2013).
“Brazil Donates”
Eduardo Achilles, Matias Spektor
Brazil is fast becoming a donor of international aid and assistance. This project describes and
explains Brazil’s trajectory as a provider of international cooperation, critically assessing the
imperatives behind policy. Findings will appear in a peer-reviewed journal in 2013.
“Brazil’s Strategic Dilemmas”
Eduardo Achilles, Matias Spektor
This is a program to extensively interview Brazilian professional diplomats, former foreign
ministers, former ministers of defense, and former heads of State through oral-history methods. The
goal is to engage them in detailed accounts of their time in office. In some cases the project includes
retrieving private archives, which are then organized and made available by CPDOC’s Documents
department. Major results will appear as interview transcripts available online.
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Team
Faculty
Matias Spektor, Associate Professor, Oxford DPhil.
Elena Lazarou, Assistant Professor, Cambridge PhD.
Oliver Stuenkel, Assistant Professor, University of Duisburg-Essen PhD.
Post-Doc Fellows
Carlo Patti, Università degli Studi di Firenze PhD.
Alexandre Moreli, Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne PhD.
Research Assistants
Eduardo Achilles de Mello, MPhil candidate, London School of Economics.
Juliana Marques da Silva, M.A. candidate, Federal University Rio.
Rodrigo Mallea, M.A., State University Rio.
Rodrigo Morais Chaves, M.A. candidate, FGV.
Salomão Cunha Lima, B.A., Faculdade Integrada do Recife.
Daniel Edler Duarte, M.A. Catholic University Rio.
Carolina Valladares Guimarães Taboada, B.A., Catholic University Rio.
Marcos Tourinho, PhD candidate, University of Geneva.
In the course of our first four years we hosted over a dozen research assistants, teachers and interns
who worked at the Center on short-term contracts for specific projects.
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Visiting Fellows
The Center receives applications for visiting positions extending from periods of a few weeks up to
a full academic year. When they are in residence with us at FGV they conduct their own research
activities and will normally give a paper or a seminar that summarizes major findings.
Andrew Hurrell, Oxford.
Carmem Fonseca, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Dario Monteiro, University of St Andrews.
Francesco Giumeli, Metropolitan University Prague.
Julia Sweig, CFR.
Leslie Bethell, Oxford.
Monique Sochaczewski Goldfeld, FGV.
Maurício Santoro, FGV.
Nuno Monteiro, Yale.
Paolo de Renzio, Oxford.
Rogério de Souza Farias, University of Brasilia.
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Events
In the past 4 years we organized over a hundred seminars, workshops, lecture series and debates.
For detailed descriptions and programs, please visit our webpage www.ri.fgv.br.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journals
LAZAROU, E. A União Europeia e a América Latina: um panorama da cooperação interregional .
Revista Estudos Históricos, Vol. 22, No 44.
PATTI, C. Brazil and the nuclear issues in the years of the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva government
(2003-2010). Revista Brasileira Política Internacional. 2010, vol. 53, PP. 178-1978.
SPEKTOR, M. Globalização e Estado nas revoluções globais de 1968: Irã, Brasil e Indonésia.
Revista Estudos Históricos, Vol. 23, No. 46, p. 363 - 376, julho a dezembro de 2010.
SPEKTOR, M. Ideias de ativismo regional: a transformação das leituras brasileiras da região.
Revista Brasileira Política Internacional. 2010, vol.53, n.1, pp. 25-44.
STUENKEL, O. Why IBSA and BRICS should not merge. Foreign Policy Research Center
Journal, v. 11, p. 75-78, 2012
STUENKEL, O. "Identity and the concept of the West: The case of Brazil and India". Revista
Brasileira de Política Internacional, Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional 54 (1): 178-195,
2011.
STUENKEL, O. Rising powers and the future of democracy promotion: the case of Brazil and
India, co-authored with Jabin T. Jacob. Portuguese Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 4, 2011.
STUENKEL, O. Identidade, status e instituições internacionais: o caso de Brasil, Índia e do Tratado
de Não-Proliferação, Contexto Internacional, Volume 32, No. 2, July / December 2010
STUENKEL, O. The case for stronger Brazil-India relations . India Foreign Affairs Journal, Vol. 5
No.3, July- September 2010.
Authored Books
SPEKTOR, M. Kissinger e o Brasil. Editora Zahar, 2009.
SPEKTOR, M., org., Azeredo da Silveira: um depoimento. Editora FGV, 2010.
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Books Chapters
CASTRO NEVES, J.A. e SPEKTOR, M. Obama and Brazil. In: Lowenthal; Piccone; Whitehead
(Eds.) Shifting the balance: Obama and the Americas. Brookings, 2011.
LAZAROU, E. A Paradigm in Trouble? The Effects of the 2010 Euro-crisis on the European
Model for Regional Integration in South America - in Fioramonti, L. (ed)Regions and Crisis.
London: Palgrave MacMIllan,2012.
LAZAROU, E. The Role of the National Media in the Europeanization of National Foreign Policy
in Savas Arslan et al. (eds.) Media, Culture and Identity in Europe. Istanbul: Bahçesehir University
Press, 2009
LAZAROU, E. Portraying the Other in International Relations: Cases of Othering, Their Dynamics
and the Potential for Transformation- Edited by Sybille Reinke de Buitrago, Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2012.
LAZAROU, E. Respostas européias para a crise Internacional. In: "Desafios para a Construção de
uma Agenda Comum entre Brasil e Europa”. Rio de Janeiro: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung 2011.
LAZAROU, E. Regions and Crises: New Challenges for Contemporary Regionalisms - Lorenzo
Fioramonti, International Political Economy Series. London: Palgrave MacMIllan,2012.
LAZAROU, E. Transforming Discourses of „Otherness‟: The Role of the Mass-Media in GreekTurkish Relations. In: Reinicke, S. (ed) Portraying the Other in International Relations Cambridge:
Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2012
LAZAROU, Elena. The EU Immigration Policy and Greece. In: VALINAKIS, J. (Editor) Greek
foreign and European policy: 1990-2010. Atenas: Sideres Publishers, 2010.
SPEKTOR, M. Brazil: The Underlying Ideas of Regional Policies. In: FLEMES, Daniel (Ed.).
Regional Leadership in the Global System - Ideas, Interests and Strategies of Regional Powers.
Ashgate Publishing, 2010.
SPEKTOR, M. Brazilian Assessments of the End of the Cold War. In: Kalinovsky, Artemy M. &
Radchenko, Sergey (Eds.) The End of the Cold War and The Third World: New Perspectives on
Regional Conflict (Cold War History). Routledge, 2011.
SPEKTOR, M. Les différentes logiques de la politique régionale du Brésil. In: Isablle Vagnoux;
Daniel van Eeuwen. (Org.). Les relations interaméricaines en perspective: entre crises et alliances
(234p.). Paris: Éditions de l'Institut des Amériques&Éditions de l'Institut des Hautes Études de
l'Amérique latine, 2009, p. 193-203.
SPEKTOR, M. O regionalismo do Brasil. In: Bernardo Sorj e Sergio Fausto (orgs.), Brasil e
América do Sul: Olhares Cruzados. Rio de Janeiro: Centro Edelstein de Pesquisas Sociais, 2011 ,
pp. 141-172.
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SPEKTOR, M. Obama and Brazil. In: Lowenthal; Piccone; Whitehead
(Eds.) Shifting the balance: Obama and the Americas. Brookings, 2011. Co-authored with João
Augusto de Castro Neves. Reprinted in Portuguese as Obama e o Brasil in Obama e as Américas,
FGV Press, 2011.
STUENKEL, O. BRICS and the Bridge to Brazil. In: Zahira Asmal. (Org.). Reflections &
Opportunities: Design, cities and the World Cup. ZAR 300, 2012.
STUENKEL, O. Brasil, BRICS e desafios globais. In: O Brasil, os BRICS e a Agenda
Internacional. Brasília: Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão, 2012.
Pocket Books
The Center manages a pocket book series with FGV Press under the title of “Entenda o Mundo”.
This is an attempt to provide low-cost literatures in International Relations and Global History that
are not normally available in Portuguese for a Brazilian student readership.
João Vargas, Campanha Permanente: o Brasil e a reforma do Conselho de Segurança da ONU. Rio
de Janeiro: FGV, 2011.
Monica Hirst e Andrew Hurrell, Brasil - Estados Unidos: desencontros e afinidades. Rio de Janeiro:
FGV, 2009.
Philip Hugon, Geopolítica da África. Rio de Janeiro: FGV, 2010.
Abe Lowenthal, Laurence Whitehead e Ted Piccone, orgs., Obama e as Américas. Rio de Janeiro:
FGV, 2011.
Dani Nedal e Matias Spektor, orgs., O que a China quer? Rio de Janeiro: FGV, 2010.
Andrew Hurell et al, Os Brics e a Ordem Global. Rio de Janeiro: FGV, 2009.
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Funding
The Center actively seeks external funding for specific projects. Our sponsors come from both the
private and public sectors in Brazil and abroad. Here’s a list of major sponsors by project. Please
note that all figures are approximate and vary according to the exchange rate.
The Foreign Policy of Emerging Powers
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
16.941,00 USD
European Transformations
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
20.000,00 USD
Think tanks, governance and policy advice
Ford Foundation
5.000,00 USD
Brazil’s Strategic Dilemmas
CNPq, Souza Cruz, BM&F, Itau, Odebrecht, British Academy, IPEA
280.000,00 USD
Brazil and Argentina in the Global Nuclear Order
CNPq, FAPERJ, CAPES, FINEP, UK ESRC and Carnegie Corporation of New York.
410.000,00 USD
Global Norm Evolution and the Responsibility to Protect
Volkswagen Stiftung, Compagnia di San Paolo, Riksbankens Jubileums Fond.
40.000,00 USD
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