center for international relations report 2013 - 2014

REPORT 2013-2014 CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Center for International Relations – Report 2013-2014

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 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 two years included the role of rising

powers in global order, Europe seen from the outside, nuclear politics, the past and present of

Brazil’s foreign relations, and global history and international relations. Our visiting fellows have

expanded the thematic reach of what our work by bringing in work on international political

economy, IR theory and the history of Brazil in the world.

We offer teaching through an executive program 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. An eighteen month MBA program

trains professionals who work in the private sector, in public administration, in law firms and

the media sector.

The Center also explores 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, and 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.

The Center for International Relations also owes a great debt to the generosity of its

sponsors and the unconditional support of CPDOC’s direction and FGV. 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 years is to translate the many research activities of the

past two years into scholarly publications, make new faculty appointments and further

consolidate FGV as a reference in International Relations and Global History in Brazil.

Alexandre Moreli Center for International Relations Fundação Getulio Vargas


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Index

RESEARCH PROJECTS ................................................................................................................................. 2

“Rising Powers’ Foreign Policy” ................................................................................................................................ 2

“Global Governance at the XXI Century” ................................................................................................................. 2

“Rising Powers and the International Liberal Order” ............................................................................................... 2

“Brazil in International Crisis” .................................................................................................................................. 2

“Emerging Powers in Global Governance” ................................................................................................................ 2

“Global Norm Evolution and the Responsibility to Protect” .................................................................................... 2

“European Union and the Changing World: The Future of Brasil- UE Relations” ................................................... 3

“The Multipolar World: multilateral strategies from the major powers in the XXI century” .................................. 3

“Think Tanks, Governance and Policy Advice” ......................................................................................................... 3

“Britain in the Back Yard: The United States and Great Britain in Latin America in the 20th Century”.................. 3

“Writing Latin American History in a Global Context” ........................................................................................... 3

“Tropical Atlantism” ................................................................................................................................................. 3

“Brazil and Argentina in the Global Nuclear Order” ................................................................................................. 4

“Brazil’s Foreign Policy as a Rising Power” ............................................................................................................... 4

“Historical and Strategical Memory of Brazil’s Nuclear Energy ” ............................................................................ 4

“International Nuclear History” ................................................................................................................................ 4

“Brazil in Global Nuclear Order” ............................................................................................................................... 4

“US-Brazil Relations from Cardoso to Lula” ............................................................................................................. 4

“Global Transformations and Rising States” ............................................................................................................. 4

ARCHIVES AND ORAL HISTORY ................................................................................................................ 5

TEAM ............................................................................................................................................................ 5

Faculty ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Post-Doc Fellows ...................................................................................................................................................... 5

Research Assistants .................................................................................................................................................. 5

Visiting Fellows ........................................................................................................................................................ 6

TEACHING ................................................................................................................................................... 7

PARTNERSHIPS ........................................................................................................................................... 8

EVENTS ....................................................................................................................................................... 10

PUBLICATIONS .......................................................................................................................................... 11

FUNDING ................................................................................................................................................... 14


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RESEARCH PROJECTS

“Rising Powers’ Foreign Policy” Oliver Stuenkel This project closely analyzes the rising powers’ foreign policy, specifically India’s, Brazil’s and China’s and their contribution to the solving of global challenges. As part of the project several workshops were organized featuring scholars from the three countries and the publication of material regarding the research area.

“Global Governance at the XXI Century” Oliver Stuenkel The established global governance structures (such as the UN Security Council or the G8) face the challenge of effectively integrating new influences and experiences if they wish to continue to fulfill its task of providing global public goods, reason why they were created. Therefore, this project tries to understand what this means to the international system. The project also includes organization of seminars and the publication of material related to the subject.

“Rising Powers and the International Liberal Order” Oliver Stuenkel This project analyzes the way in which the three major rising powers – Brazil, China and India – are behaving during the so called BRICS Decade. The main objective of the project is the production of several papers regarding the rising powers and global norms, such as democracy promotion and peace missions.

“Brazil in International Crisis” Oliver Stuenkel This project aims to study Brazil’s performance in international crisis since the establishment of the New Republic in 1985. The project is divided into three segments that approach the normative, juridical, and economical aspects related to the risks taken by several stakeholders during the management of such crisis. The product will be a testimonies bank consisted of historical and documental information, an academic conference and a published issue about the theme.

“Emerging Powers in Global Governance” Oliver Stuenkel This project deals with the changing role of emerging countries in existing global governance structures. How does 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.


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“European Union and the Changing World: The Future of Brasil- UE

Relations” 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 non-European powers see the current trajectory of united Europe in international affairs. This project aims to promote the field of European Studies in Brazil.

“The Multipolar World: multilateral strategies from the major powers in the

XXI century” Elena Lazarou The book was organized, translated and reviewed throughout the year, and was published in 2014. The research was conducted with support from Project Mercury - Multilateralism and the EU in the Contemporary Global Order, which partially funded the same.

“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.

“Britain in the Back Yard: The United States and Great Britain in Latin

America in the 20th Century” Alexandre Moreli The aim of the project is to bring together scholars working on various aspects of Anglo-American relations in Latin America throughout the 20th century. The outgrowths include the publication of peer-reviewed papers that will explore Anglo-American diplomacy concerning Latin America during the First and Second World Wars.

“Writing Latin American History in a Global Context” Alexandre Moreli Developed in partnership with European and American historians, the aim of the Project is to work both as a sounding board and a forum for new ideas and debates on how to write Latin American history within a global framework, how to trace links and diffuse ideas, particularly those that do not travel from North to South. The overarching goal of the project is to provide impetus for new projects in the field.

“Tropical Atlantism” Alexandre Moreli This project intends to investigate what were the ideas and the results of the Second World War for the international relations through the lenses of the countries involved, the rule of men experience, but also of civil society, without disregarding the global context of reconstruction of the multilateral international order.


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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.

“Brazil’s Foreign Policy as a Rising Power” Matias Spektor This research debates the role of Brazil in the post-cold war scenario. Hence, it will build a data bank of oral history made with testimonies. The aim of this project is to analyze the birth of Brazil’s new conceptions of world order. The project was concluded in 2013.

“Historical and Strategical Memory of Brazil’s Nuclear Energy ” Matias Spektor This project includes research, documentation and dissemination of the history of nuclear energy in Brazil, being the largest initiative already made on nuclear energy in Brazil. The project included a workshop, a seminar and the publication of a book. The project ended in 2013.

“International Nuclear History” Matias Spektor The objective of this project is to produce new primary sources for research on the topic, allowing scholars a deeper approach and a new perspective on the subject. This initiative also made possible a set of activities carried out in partnership with institutions and projects in Brazil and worldwide.

“Brazil in Global Nuclear Order” Matias Spektor This project seeks to describe and explain the nuclear choices of Brazil in global perspective.

“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 had an impact on the evolution of ties between the two countries. Work included the declassification of thousands of official documents and extensive in-depth interviews. Major findings are available in a self-authored book, “18 Dias” (2014).

“Global Transformations and Rising States” Alexandre Moreli, Elena Lazarou, Matias Spektor e Oliver Stuenkel This research and activities program is tailored to deepen the existing knowledge on the impact that emerging powers have on contemporary global order and on the international relations of Brazil.


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ARCHIVES AND ORAL HISTORY

During the period of 2013 to 2014, the Center for International Relations developed

various initiatives regarding Oral History and archive research. Professor Oliver Stuenkel

interviewed several personalities regarding Brazil’s global insertion through the project “Brazil

in International Crisis”. Professor Elena Lazarou interviewed various diplomats, ambassadors

and think tank experts for the project “Brazil and European Relations”, in which she intends to

explore how these relations are deepened or softened regarding specific contexts. In the end of

2014, Professor Matias Spektor started a new project, focused on Brazil’s external relations

during Lula da Silva’s mandates. For this project, professor Spektor has already interviewed

Marco Antonio Raupp, former minister for the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry.

Regarding archives, professor Alexandre Moreli underwent a two week research period

in the United Kingdom for his project “Britain in Backyard: the United States and Great Britain

in Latin America in the twentieth century”.

TEAM

Faculty

Alexandre Moreli, Coordinator of the Center for International Relations, PhD Université de Paris I,

Panthéon-Sorbonne

Matias Spektor, Assistant Professor, DPhil Oxford University

Elena Lazarou, Assistant Professor, PhD Cambridge University

Oliver Stuenkel, Assistant Professor, PhD University of Duisburg-Essen

Post-Doc Fellows

Carlo Patti, PhD Università degli Studi di Firenze

Monique Sochaczewski Goldfeld, PhD Getulio Vargas Foundation

Research Assistants

Bruno de Marco Lopes, M.A. candidate, São Paulo University

Bruno Theodoro Luciano, M.A., Brasilia University

Carolina Valladares Taboada, M.Sc. candidate, London School of Economics

Daniel Edler Duarte, PhD candidate, King’s College


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Debora Albu, B.A., Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Eduardo Achilles de Mello, PhD candidate, London School of Economics

Juliana Luiz, PhD candidate State University of Rio de Janeiro

Juliana Marques da Silva, M.A., Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Kelly Ferreira, PhD candidate, São Paulo University

Marcos Tourinho, PhD candidate, University of Geneva

Pedro Henrique Souza, B.A. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Renata Dalaqua, PhD candidate Getulio Vargas Foundation

Rodrigo Mallea, M.A., State University of Rio de Janeiro

Rodrigo Morais Chaves, M.A. candidate, Getulio Vargas Foundation

Salomão Cunha Lima, M.B.A., Getulio Vargas Foundation

In the course of these two years we hosted over a dozen research assistants, professors and

interns who worked at the Center on short-term contracts for specific projects.

Visiting Fellows

The Center receives applications for visiting positions extending from periods of a few weeks up

to a full academic year. When in residence at FGV they conduct their own research activities

and will normally give a paper or a seminar that summarizes major findings. In the period of

2013-2014, we received the following fellows:

David Karp, PhD University College London

Tomás Undurraga, PhD Cambridge University

Christopher Dunlap, PhD candidate University of Chicago

Omar Serrano, PhD Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva

Ryan Berger, M.A. Candidate Columbia University

Lee Mackey, PhD UCLA


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TEACHING

Since its creation, the Center for International Relations develops several initiatives in

International Relations and Global History education. The main goal of our activities is to

promote an interdisciplinary approach to International Relations with excellency, that

combines other disciplines such as Social Sciences, History, Law and Economics.

Our Executive Program in International Relations has the same approach as a minor at

undergraduate level. All undergraduate students of Getulio Vargas Foundation can attend the

courses and, at the end of their courses, get the certificate for the Executive Program. Some of

the courses include “Introduction to International Politics”, “Dilemmas of Brazilian Foreign

Policy”, “Global History of World Wars”, “Europe in the World”, “Emerging Powers in Global

Order”. More than 50 students were awarded the Certificate since 2009.

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Students of the Executive Program (by school)

Rio de Janeiro Law Scool

Brazilian School of Economics andFinance

Brazilian School of Public and BusinessAdministration

School of Social Sciences

São Paulo School of Economics

São Paulo Law School

São Paulo School of BusinessAdministration - Public Administration

São Paulo School of BusinessAdministration - Business Administration


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On postgraduate level, we offer an MBA in International Relations, which is an eighteen-

month course, structured in modules such as “Brazil in the World”, “International Political

Economy” and “Diplomacy and Strategic Interactions”. The MBA is aimed at professionals of

different areas such as consulting, international business and journalism, providing analytical

tools to deal with international environment issues critically.

In addition, through the postgraduate program in History, Politics and Cultural Goods,

from the School of Social Sciences, the Center offers orientation for master and doctorate level

students in the International Relations research field. Some of the topics researched include

global change and emerging powers, regional integration processes and EU foreign policy,

compared foreign policy, international security and Global History.

PARTNERSHIPS

KONRAD ADENAUER FOUNDATION

Getulio Vargas Foundation and Konrad Adenauer

Foundation are part of the partnership that created the Konrad

Adenauer fellowship in European Studies. Daniel Edler, who is

currently a PhD student at King's College in London, held the

fellowship during the period of 2012 to 2014 under the

orientation of Professor Elena Lazarou. Since April 2014, we have received Bruno Theodoro

Luciano as our new fellow.

The main goal of this partnership is the Europe Week, a series of events that happens in

concurrence with the Europe Day in May of every year. During the week, we organize three

different events: the School of the European Union, the Europe Day Conference and the

Workshop for post-graduates in European Studies. We can also count with the support of the

European Union Delegation to Brazil for the organization of our events. In 2013, we also had

support of the NATO Defense College for the elaboration of that year’s edition.

UNIVERSITY OF BERN – CENTER FOR GLOBAL STUDIES

In the last decade, an important shift has taken place within

Latin American Studies, advocating a hemispheric, Atlantic, or global

approach to writing history. As rewarding and innovative as these new

approaches are, they provide specific challenges regarding both

methodology as well as implementation. In order to contribute to this


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debate uniting efforts from the North and from the South, a partnership was celebrated between

the Center for International Relations and the Center for Global Studies at the University of

Bern. Functioning as both a sounding board and a forum for new ideas and discussions on how

to write Latin American history within a global framework, it contributes to trace links and to

the diffusion of ideas.

In the year of 2014, as a product of this partnership, the workshop “Latin America in

Global Context” was organized in Bern, Switzerland. The workshop proved to be a unique

opportunity to discuss how the history of Latin America will be written in the world in the

coming decades and included the participation of young academics from Argentina, Colombia,

Brazil, the US, the UK, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Mexico with great potential

to become leaders in the field. The workshop had full support of the Swiss National Science

Foundation and the Stiftung Mercator Schwiez, and it has plans for a future edition in 2016, to

be held in Rio de Janeiro at FGV.

GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE

CPDOC has a strong partnership with the Global Public Policy

Institute (GPPi) in Berlin since 2011. Currently, researchers from both

institutions are working on a project on “Global Norm Evolution and

Responsibility to Protect”, which has led to the joint publication of

several academic articles and conferences in Berlin and Budapest. In

2015, GPPi and FGV will jointly organize an international conference

in São Paulo on Brazil's role in international security. In April 2015,

GPPi will host a book launch by Oliver Stuenkel, coordinator of

CPDOC's São Paulo branch.


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EVENTS

Among the main events organized by the

Center, we highlight the Europe Week, in 2013 and

in 2014, which was divided into two different

events: the European Union School and the Europe

Day Conference, that, in 2014, took place at the

Itamaraty Palace. The event was supported by

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and by the European

Union Delegation to Brazil. In 2013, we could also

count on the support of the NATO Defense College.

Another important event organized in 2013 and 2014 was the workshop on Research Methods

and Techniques, in which for three days many students

from all parts of Brazil discussed their research and

methodology in Global History and International

Relations. The workshop is an annual activity that

takes place in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

The Center has also received many important

professors and researchers such as Professor Matthew

Connelly from Columbia University, who gave lectures

on collection, storage and data de/classification, invited

by the School of Social Sciences from FGV and the School of Applied Mathematics (EMAp).

Another major event organized by the Center was the Special Class with Professor Stephen

Walt, from Harvard University.

In partnership with the Carnegie Endowment for

International Peace, the "Rising Democracies Network"

conference was attended by experts from 11 countries in order to

discuss the state of democracy in the world. Another successful

partnership was the organization of the conference "Council of

Councils Americas Regional Conference and the Hemispheric

Meeting of Councils on International Relations" in cooperation

with the Council of Foreign Relations, in 2013, in Mexico.

Also, professors and collaborators of the Center presented

papers and lectured at various events in Brazil and in countries

such as Argentina, Belgium, Canada, East Timor, Germany, Greece, India, Mexico, North Korea,

Singapore, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and Unites States.

In the past couple of years we organized over a hundred seminars, workshops, lecture

series and debates. For detailed descriptions and programs, please visit our webpage

http://ri.fgv.br/en/events.

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PUBLICATIONS

In the past couple of years the professors of the Center for International Relations

published the most diverse academic materials: books, book chapters, academic papers, press

articles and interviews.

It is important to highlight that in 2014 four books were published as an outcome of the

professors’ research and involvement of the team at the Center for International Relations, one

of them being part of FGV’s Pocket Books Collection.

18 Dias: Quando Lula e FHC se uniram para conquistar o apoio de Bush

Matias Spektor

Why did George W. Bush set out to embrace Lula in Brazil? This is the

backstage story behind America's most ambitious attempt to engage emerging

Brazil.

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Press 90 63

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India in the Global Order

Oliver Stuenkel

FGV’s collection of Pocket Books, “Entenda o Mundo” (or “Understanding the

World”) has just received its new volume. The book develops important

debates on the country dynamics, such as its democracy, foreign policy and

global integration with valuable contributions from thinkers of India:

Jawaharlal Nehru, C. Raja Mohan, Gurcharan Das, Ashutosh Varshney and

Shivshankar Menon.

India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA): The Rise of the Global

South

Oliver Stuenkel

Offering the first full-length and detailed treatment of the IBSA, this work will

be of great interest to students and scholars of International organizations,

international relations and the global south.

Multilateralism in International Relations

Elena Lazarou

With the aim of offering the reader a theoretical basis for the concept of

multilateralism in international relations, the work brings a fresh perspective

on the subject and illustrates the evolution and the different possible

interpretations of the concept. For the author, "the book helps to fill the gap of

publications in Portuguese about important topics in the field of International

Relations in Brazil".

http://editora.fgv.br/a-india-na-ordem-global_1

http://www.amazon.com/India-Brazil-South-Africa-Dialogue-Forum-IBSA/dp/1138789089/ref=la_B00P1ZSQP0_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417713300&sr=1-1


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In the year of 2014, the creation of the Pocket Talks session was a new initiative of the

Center for International Relations to provide a more immediate dissemination of the work our

professors and researchers are currently developing via short interviews, as well as the opinions

and analysis of its members on the most important international issues, in different media

formats. The Center also celebrates the 3rd year anniversary of the bi-weekly column of

Professor Matias Spektor at Folha de São Paulo, one of the leading journals in Brazil.

For more publications of the Center, such as book chapters, peer-reviewed articles and

research papers and other materials, please visit our webpage www.ri.fgv.br.

http://www.ri.fgv.br/



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FUNDING

We count on the generous financial support of partners within and outside Brazil. In the years of 2013

and 2014, our thanks go to:

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