POLICY & OPINION

The Limits of Trump’s Hardball Diplomacy. Foreign Affairs, April 2025.

 

Rise of the Nonaligned: Who Wins in a Multipolar World? Foreign Affairs, January 2025.

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The US, The West and International  Law in an Age of Strategic Competition. Justice Breyer Lecture, Brookings Institution, April 2024. See also: Ishaan Tharoor, The fallacy of the "West versus the rest" worldview, The Washington Post, April 9, 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, No. 3, pp. 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.

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

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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, Independent report by Togzhan Kassenova, Lucas Florentino, and Matias Spektor, March 2020. (In Portuguese)

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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 Nación, 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, pp. 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, pp. 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, pp. 56–61, Spring 2011.

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