Poststructuralist Theories of International Relations
Critical theory, deconstruction and critique as repetition; the problematisation of the inside/outside boundary that founds the discipline.
Research
Research & Teaching
Professor of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. He studies the following themes: Poststructuralist Theories of International Relations, Fragile States, Private Military Companies.
Research areas
Fragile States
How state fragility is discursively constructed in foreign policy — metaphors, sovereignty and narratives of exclusion.
Private Military Companies
The privatisation of violence, mercenarism and the necropower exercised by military companies in fragile states and peace operations.
Teaching
Professor in the undergraduate and graduate programmes of the Department of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas).