Research
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WORKING PAPERS
Strategic nuclear proliferation and public opinion: Pre-Analysis Plan, EGAP - Evidence in Governance and Politics (In progress). Matias Spektor, Guilherme Fasolin, Lucas Perez Florentino & Umberto Mignozzetti. pdf
"Bandwagoning for Survival: Political Leaders and International Alignments". Matias Spektor & Guilherme Fasolin. [Working Paper]. pdf
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PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“‘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. With Carlo Patti. pdf
"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. Matias Spektor. pdf
“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. Matias Spektor. pdf
“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. With Umberto Mignozzetti. Amazon
"Diplomacia da Ruptura". 2019. In: Democracia em risco? 22 ensaios sobre o Brasil hoje. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, p. 228-254. Matias Spektor. pdf
"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. Matias Spektor. pdf
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"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. Matias Spektor. pdf
"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. Matias Spektor. pdf
"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, Matias Spektor. pdf
"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. Matias Spektor. pdf
"Brazil: the Underlying Ideas of Regional Policies". 2010. In: Daniel Flemes (ed.). Regional Leadership in the Global System: Ideas, Interests and Strategies of Regional Powers. New York: Routledge. Chapter 9. Matias Spektor. pdf
"Ideias de ativismo regional: a transformação das leituras brasileiras da região". 2010. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional. 53/1: 25-44. Matias Spektor. pdf
"O Brasil e a Argentina entre a cordialidade oficial e o projeto de integração (1967-1979)". 2002. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional. 45/1: 117-145 . Matias Spektor. pdf
"A abertura do Acervo Azeredo da Silveira". 2001. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional. 44/2: 186-189. Matias Spektor. pdf
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BOOKS
10 Desafios de Política Externa. 1. ed. Rio de Janeiro, 2016. pdf
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. pdf
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. Amazon
Kissinger e o Brasil. 1. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar Editor, 2009. v. 1. 234 p. Amazon
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POLICY AND OPINION
Prospects for Nuclear Governance in Brazil, An Independent Report by Togzhan Kassenova, Lucas Florentino & Matias Spektor pdf | Portuguese version here.
Bolsonaro will regret baiting China the Chinese Tiger, The Financial Times (December 2018). Matias Spektor. pdf
Si no logra los cambios prometidos, la ola también se lo tragará, La Nacion (October 2018). Matias Spektor. pdf
It's Not Just the Right That's Voting for Bolsonaro. It's Everyone, Foreign Policy (October 2018). Matias Spektor. pdf
How Brazil's Operation Car Wash Is Threatened by Politicans, Foreign Affairs (May 2018). Matias Spektor. pdf
Prospects for Safeguarding Brazil's Naval Nucelar Propulsion Program Issue Brief. Federation of American Scientists. August 2017. Matias Spektor. pdf
How to Fix Brazil: Breaking an Addiction to Bad Government, Foreign Affairs (September / October,2016): 102-110. Matias Spektor and Eduardo Mello. pdf
AQ Top 5 Corruption Busters: Sérgio Moro, Americas Quarterly (October 2016). Matias Spektor. pdf
Five Goals for Brazil's New Foreign Policy, Americas Quarterly (October 2016). Matias Spektor. pdf
A política externa de tucanos e petistas, Folha de São Paulo, Ilustríssima (Outubro de 2015). Matias Spektor. pdf
The State of Brazil's South American Project. Inter-American Dialogue, Working Paper, June 2014: 1-11. Matias Spektor. pdf
U.S Nuclear Accomodation of Brazil a Model for Iran Policy? World Politics Review (July 2013). Matias Spektor. pdf
Humanitarian Interventionism Brazilian Style? Americas Quarterly (Summer 2012). Matias Spektor. pdf
One Foot in the Region: Eyes on the Global Prize, Americas Quarterly (Spring 2011): 56-61. Matias Spektor. pdf
Brazil-China: What's Next After Rousseff's Visit? Americas Quarterly (April 2011). Matias Spektor. pdf
Here's the link to seven years of my foreign column at Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil's leading daily newspaper.
