The legitimacy of military spending and state investment in defense is subject to frequent challenges and scrutiny. The existing international order, the pressures for a domestic budget balance and the difficulty in assessing ...

Brazil and South Korea, two developmental states that became industrial exponents in their respective regional spheres, followed paths that incurred in different insertions of their economies in the international division ...

This dissertation discusses the relationship between social classifications and securitization. Processes of decolonization, racialization and gendering are considered in certain politicalideological contexts. The theoretical ...

Guided by neo-institutionalist liberal theory, institutions have the main role of facilitating the cooperation of countries that have an interest in them. This practice of cooperation reduces uncertainties by promoting ...

In this Master’s thesis, I examine the explanatory capacity of the commodity boom as an incentive for taxation proposals in Latin America by tackling the following puzzle: what is the relationship between the commodity price ...

The general objective of this work is to analyze changes in the relative capabilities and relative aggregate power of China and the United States between 2008 and 2022. We chose this time interval, as 2008 marked the ...

The environmental agenda, the result of the diverse demands present in international society, has continually pressured States and International Organizations to adapt their practices and policies to sustainable principles, ...

This dissertation proposes to perform an intersectional and postcolonial analysis of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda (WPS) in MINUSCA (United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission In The Central ...

This research asks how and why the Network of National Health Institutes (RINS), the Network of Public Health Schools (RESP) and the Network of Technical Health Schools (RETS) of the Union of South American Nations ...

This dissertation deals with the technological trajectories of late industrialization countries along with the Flexible Networks paradigm, in particular, the comparative analysis between Brazil and India. The objective ...