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POLICY & OPINION

The fallacy of the "West versus the rest" worldview. The Washington Post. Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor (April 2024).

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The US, The West and International  Law in an Age of Strategic Competition. Justice Breyer Lecture. Washington D.C, Brookings Institution. (April 2024)

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What Happened to Lula? How He Dashed High Hopes for Brazil's Foreign Policy - and How He Can Get Back on Track. Foreign Affairs (February 2024).

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The Upside of Western Hypocrisy: How the Global South Can Push America to Do Better. Foreign Affairs (July 2023). 

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In Defense of the Fence Sitters: What the West Gets Wrong about Hedging. Foreign Affairs, Vol 10, Number 3: 8-16. Special issue on The Nonaligned World: The West, the Rest, and the New Global Disorder. (May/June 2023).

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Brazil Case Study. In Opening Up Democratic Spaces, edited by Rachel Riedl, Paul Friesen, Jennifer McCoy, Kennedy Roberts, and Murat Somer. USAID (July 2023).

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UN Security Council Reform: What the World Thinks - Brazil. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. With Stewart Patrick et al. (June 2023). ​
 

Confronting Climate Skepticism in Brazil: Recommendations for Communicators. São Paulo, Brazil: School of Internatinal Relations at FGV. With Guilherme N. Fasolin and Vitória Totti Salgado (eds.) (2023). Portuguese version

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What Lula’s Return Means for the Amazon: The Fate of the Brazilian Rainforest Has Global Implications. Foreign Affairs. With Guilherme Fasolin (November 2022).

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Prospects for Nuclear Governance in Brazil, An Independent Report by Togzhan Kassenova, Lucas Florentino and Matias Spektor (March 2020). Portuguese version

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Bolsonaro will regret baiting China the Chinese Tiger, The Financial Times (December 2018).

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Brazil's Nuclear Naval Fuel: Choices and a Road Map for Productive Engagement. Institute for International Science & Technology Policy, Occasional Paper Series, Reducing Risks from Naval Nuclear Fuel (October 2018).

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Si no logra los cambios prometidos, la ola también se lo tragará, La Nacion (October 2018).

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It's Not Just the Right That's Voting for Bolsonaro. It's Everyone, Foreign Policy (October 2018).

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How Brazil's Operation Car Wash Is Threatened by Politicians,  Foreign Affairs (May 2018).  

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Prospects for Safeguarding Brazil's Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. Issue Brief. Federation of American Scientists (August 2017). 

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How to Fix Brazil: Breaking an Addiction to Bad Government. Foreign Affairs: 102-110. With Eduardo Mello (September/October 2016).

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AQ Top 5 Corruption Busters: Sérgio Moro, Americas Quarterly (October 2016). 

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Five Goals for Brazil's New Foreign Policy, Americas Quarterly (October 2016). 

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A política externa de tucanos e petistas, Folha de São Paulo, Ilustríssima (Outubro de 2015). 

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The State of Brazil's South American Project. Inter-American Dialogue: 1-11 (June 2014). 

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U.S. Nuclear Accommodation of Brazil a Model for Iran Policy? World Politics Review (July 2013). 

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Humanitarian Interventionism Brazilian Style? Americas Quarterly (Summer 2012).

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One Foot in the Region: Eyes on the Global Prize, Americas Quarterly: 56-61 (Spring 2011).

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Brazil-China: What's Next After Rousseff's Visit? Americas Quarterly (April 2011). 

Here's the link to seven years of my foreign column at Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil's leading daily newspaper.

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