International security
Threats, securitization, and the dynamics of (in)security in the contemporary international system.
Research
Research & Teaching
Critical theory of International Relations applied to contemporary forms of violence and exclusion.
Research areas
Terrorism
The discursive construction of the concept of terrorism — an emblematic case: Tony Blair's speeches and the instability of their structures.
Post-structuralism in IR
Critical theory, deconstruction, and critique as repetition; the problematization of the inside/outside boundary that founds the discipline.
Private military companies
The privatization of violence, mercenarism, and the necropower exercised by military companies in fragile states and peace missions.
Failed states
How "failed states" are discursively constructed in foreign policy — metaphors, sovereignty, and narratives of exclusion.
Discourse analysis
Post-positivist methods for examining how political concepts — enemy, threat, sovereignty — acquire meaning.
Brazilian foreign policy
Food security and sovereignty and Brazil's international engagement.
War and technologies of violence
Drones, kill boxes, and the deconstruction of the enemy in the transformations of contemporary war.
International law & the UN
Sovereignty, international organizations, and the role of the United Nations.
Teaching and advising
He teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs in International Relations at PUC Minas, with completed master's and doctoral advising and dozens of other academic advising roles.
- 14Master's students advised
- 4Doctoral students advised
- 48Other advising