WORKING PAPERS
"Beyond the capital-labor divide: the material and non-material drivers behind public and elite preferences over FDI,” Carolina Moehlecke, Matias Spektor, Guilherme Fasolin. [Pre-Analysis Plan]
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"Nationalist Backlash Against Foreign Climate Shaming," Matias Spektor, Umberto Mignozzetti & Guilherme Fasolin. [Under review]
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"The Global South in the Nuclear Age," forthcoming in The Cambridge History of the Nuclear Age (edited by Leopoldo Nuti and Christian Ostermann).
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
"Regionalism and Political Violence: Hegemony through Transnational Social Compacts in Cold War South America." Forthcoming July 2021. In: Amitav Acharya, Melisa Deciancio, Diana Tussie (Eds.). Latin America in Global International Relations. Routledge.
“‘We Are Not a Nonproliferation Agency’: Henry Kissinger’s Failed Attempt to Accommodate Nuclear Brazil, 1974–1977.” 2020. Journal of Cold War Studies 22 (2): p. 58–93. Matias Spektor with Carlo Patti.
"Nuclear Revolution and Hegemonic Hierarchies: how global Hiroshima played out in South America." 2020. In: Michael D. Gordin & G. John Ikenberry (Eds). The Age of Hiroshima. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 164-178.
“República na era da globalização.” In: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz & Heloisa Murgel Starling (Eds). 2019. Dicionário da República: 51 textos críticos. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.
“Brazil: When Political Oligarchies Limit Polarization but Fuel Populism.” 2019. In: Thomas Carothers & Andrew O'Donohue (Eds). Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, p. 228-254. Matias Spektor with Umberto Mignozzetti.
"Without Reversal: Brazil as a Latent Nuclear State." 2019. In: Joseph F. Pilat. (Org.). Nuclear Latency and Hedging. 1ed.Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, v. , p. 175-199.
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"The Evolution of Brazil's Nuclear Intentions." 2016. The Nonproliferation Review. 23/5:6: 635-652.
"Brazil: Shadows of the Past and Contested Ambitions." 2016. In: William I. Hitchcock, Melvyn P. Leffler, Jeffrey W. Legro (eds.). Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World. Harvard University Press, p. 17-35.
"O projeto autonomista na política externa brasileira". 2014. In: Aristides Monteiro Neto. (Org.). Política Externa, Espaço e Desenvolvimento. 1ed. Brasília: Ipea, v. 3, p. 19-60.
"Brazilian Assessment of the End of the Cold War." 2011. In: Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Sergey Radchenko (eds.). The end of the Cold War in the Third World: new perspectives on regional conflict. New York: Routledge. 2011. p. 229-244.
"Obama and Brazil." 2011. In: Abraham F. Lowenthal, Theodore J. Piccone and Laurence Whitehead (eds.). Shifting the Balance: Obama and the Americas. Brookings Institution Press, p. 43-53.
BOOKS
10 Desafios de Política Externa. 1. ed. Rio de Janeiro, 2016.
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The Origins of Nuclear Cooperation: a Critical Oral History of Argentina and Brazil. 2. ed. Rio de Janeiro / Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and FGV, com edições em português e espanhol, 2015.
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18 dias: quando Lula e FHC se uniram para conquistar o apoio de Bush. 1. ed. São Paulo: Objetiva, 2014. v. 1. 288 p. Amazon
Azeredo da Silveira: um depoimento. 1. ed. Rio de Janeiro: FGV, 2010. v. 1. 398 p.
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Kissinger e o Brasil. 1. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar Editor, 2009. v. 1. 234 p.
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POLICY AND OPINION
Prospects for Nuclear Governance in Brazil, An Independent Report by Togzhan Kassenova, Lucas Florentino & Matias Spektor (March 2020).
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Bolsonaro will regret baiting China the Chinese Tiger, The Financial Times (December 2018).
Si no logra los cambios prometidos, la ola también se lo tragará, La Nacion (October 2018).
It's Not Just the Right That's Voting for Bolsonaro. It's Everyone, Foreign Policy (October 2018).
How Brazil's Operation Car Wash Is Threatened by Politicans, Foreign Affairs (May 2018).
Prospects for Safeguarding Brazil's Naval Nucelar Propulsion Program Issue Brief. Federation of American Scientists. August 2017.
How to Fix Brazil: Breaking an Addiction to Bad Government, Foreign Affairs (September / October,2016): 102-110. Matias Spektor with Eduardo Mello.
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AQ Top 5 Corruption Busters: Sérgio Moro, Americas Quarterly (October 2016).
Five Goals for Brazil's New Foreign Policy, Americas Quarterly (October 2016).
A política externa de tucanos e petistas, Folha de São Paulo, Ilustríssima (Outubro de 2015).
The State of Brazil's South American Project. Inter-American Dialogue, Working Paper, June 2014: 1-11.
U.S Nuclear Accomodation of Brazil a Model for Iran Policy? World Politics Review (July 2013).
Humanitarian Interventionism Brazilian Style? Americas Quarterly (Summer 2012).
One Foot in the Region: Eyes on the Global Prize, Americas Quarterly (Spring 2011): 56-61.
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.
