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Professor in the undergraduate and graduate programmes of the Department of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Brazil.
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Cristiano Garcia Mendes is a professor in the undergraduate and graduate programmes of the Department of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Brazil. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Brasília (UnB).
His research brings together poststructuralist theories of International Relations, fragile states and private military companies. One question runs through it: how political language constructs the enemy, the threat and the very idea of sovereignty.
He has carried out academic activities abroad — among them at the University of Victoria (Canada), the University of Sydney (Australia) and the University of Coimbra (Portugal) — and served in the Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI). He has published in journals such as Contexto Internacional, Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, Lua Nova and Caderno CRH.