Brazilian Studies Programme/Latin American Centre and Centre for
International Studies, University of Oxford
Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil,
Fundação Getulio Vargas
Centro de Estudos sobre Relações Internacionais, Fundação Getulio Vargas
Research Project: Rethinking Brazil in the global order
Workshop I: Brazil as a regional power
Monday 11 May 2009
Fundação Getulio Vargas, Praia de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro.
Biographies
Andrew Hurrell
Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at
Oxford University and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His research
interests cover theories of international relations, with particular reference to
international law and institutions; theories of global and regional governance;
and the history of thought on international relations. He also has a
longstanding interest in Latin America and in the role of developing countries
in international relations. He is currently working on emerging powers and
global order, focusing on the policies of Brazil and India towards international
institutions including in the areas of international trade, climate change, and
nuclear proliferation. Recent publications include: On Global Order: Power,
Values and the Constitution of International Society (2007); and ‘Hegemony,
Liberalism and Global Order: What Space for Would-be Great Powers?’
International Affairs 82, 1 (January 2006): 1-19. Previous publications
include: Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (1999, co-edited with
Ngaire Woods); Order and Justice in International Relations (2003, co-edited
with Rosemary Foot and John Gaddis); Regionalism in World Politics. Regional
Organization and International Order (1995, co-edited with Louise Fawcett).
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Greg Grandin
Professor of History at New York University. Received his doctorate in history
from Yale University in 1999. He is the author of The Blood of Guatemala
(Duke, 2000), which won the Latin American Studies Association's Bryce Wood
Book Award for best book on Latin America; The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin
America in the Cold War (Chicago, 2004); Empire's Workshop: Latin America,
the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (Metropolitan, 2006).
He is the co-editor (with Marilyn Young, Jeffrey Wasserstron, and Lynn Hunt)
of Human Rights and Revolutions (2007); Truth Commissions: State Terror,
History, Memory (special issue of Radical History Review, co-edited with
Thomas Klubock, January 2007); and (with Gilbert Joseph) of A Century of
Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's
Long Cold War (forthcoming from Duke University Press). He has served on the
United Nations Truth Commission for Guatemala, as a consultant and has
published in Harper's, The Nation, The London Review of Books, the Boston
Review, the New York Times, as well as in numerous academic journals,
including the Hispanic American Historical Review, the American Historical
Review ("The Instruction of Great Catastrophe: Truth Commissions, State
Formation, and National identity in Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala" and
"Your Americanism and Mine: Americanism and Anti-Americanism in the
Americas"). He has most recently been awarded fellowships from the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the American Council of Learned
Societies, Ryskamp Fellowship Program. His new book, Fordlandia: The Rise
and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, will be published in June by
Metropolitan/Henry Holt. He is currently working on a book on American
exceptionalism.
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian holds a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University
School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. He is currently
Associate Professor of International Relations at the Universidad de San
Andrés in Argentina. Lived, researched and taught in Colombia from 1981 to
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1998. He is co-founder (1982) and Director (1987 - 1994) of the Centre for
International Studies of the (CEI) Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. His
research interests cover Colombia’s foreign policy, international relations
between the United States and Latin America, global order, drugdealers and
organized crime. He is the author of Globalización, narcotráfico y violencia:
siete ensayos sobre Colombia (Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Editorial Norma, 2000)
and Hacia una nueva estategia internacional: el desafío de Nestor Kirchner,
(Buenos Aires, Editorial Norma, 2004).
Leslie Bethell
Leslie Bethell is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History and Honorary
Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas. University of
London; Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford; Senior Research
Associate, Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do
Brasil, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro; and Senior Scholar, Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. He is a former
Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London
(1987-92) and former Director of the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University
of Oxford (1997-2007). Professor Bethell's research has been principally in the
field of nineteenth and twentieth-century Latin American – and especially
Brazilian – political, social and cultural history. His publications include The
abolition of the Brazilian slave trade (Cambridge, 1970; Port. trans. 1976; 2nd
Port. trans., 2002), (editor, with Ian Roxborough) Latin America between the
Second World War and the Cold War (Cambridge, 1992; Port. trans. 1996),
The Paraguayan War (1864-1870) (London, 1996), (editor) Brasil: fardo do
passado, promessa do futuro. Dez ensaios sobre politica e sociedade
brasileira (Rio de Janeiro, 2002), Brazil by British and Irish authors (Oxford,
2003), and (editor, with José Murilo de Carvalho) Joaquim Nabuco e os
abolicionistas britânicos (Rio de Janeiro, 2008; Eng. trans., 2009). He is Editor
of the Cambridge History of Latin America (12 volumes, 1984-2008), in which
he is the author or co-author of two chapters on Brazil 1808-50 and four
chapters on politics in Brazil 1930-2002. The Cambridge History of Latin
America is also being published in Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.
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Luis Fernando Ayerbe
Luis Fernando Ayerbe is a Professor of History and International Relations at
Universidade Estadual de São Paulo (UNESP). Graduated at History by the
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP), is Master at Sociology
from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Ph.D. at History from
the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). He was Visiting Scholar at Harvard
University and at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He is currently full
professor of UNESP, serving in the Department of Economics, Araraquara
Campus, and in Program San Tiago Dantas of International Relations of UNESP,
UNICAMP and PUC/SP. He has experience in History and International Studies,
acting in the following subjects: contemporary history of Latin America,
foreign policy of the United States, inter-american relations, culture and
international relations, analysis of conflicts. In 2001 received the Award Casa
de las Americas, in Social-historic Essay category, by the book Los Estados
Unidos y la América Latina: la construcción de la hegemonía.
Marcelo de Paiva Abreu
Is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Pontifícia
Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, since 1984, was the Department´s
chair between 1990 and 1997. He holds a Cambridge University Ph. D. in
Economics and a National Scientific and Technological Research Scholarship,
grade I-A. He has been a visiting professor or visiting scholar in the
universities of Cambridge, Columbia (Rio Branco Chair, 1998), Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Modena, Oxford and Venice. He is a member of UNCTAD´s
group of the eminent persons on trade barriers. Since 1995 he writes
regularly for O Estado de São Paulo, a major Brazilian newspaper. Has
published extensively in Brazil and abroad on commercial policy and foreign
debt in Brazil and Latin America. His publications include: `Developing
countries and the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations´, Proceedings of the
World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics, 1989; `Brazil as a
creditor: sterling balances, 1940-1952´, The Economic History Review, XLIII
(3), August 1990; O Brasil e a economia mundial, Rio de Janeiro, 1999; `The
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external context´ in V.Bulmer-Thomas, J.H. Coatsworth and R. Cortés-Conde
(orgs.), The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, Volume II. The
Long 20th Century, New York, 2006; `Brazil as a debtor, 1824-1931´,
Economic History Review, 59 (4), November 2006; Comércio exterior:
interesses do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2007; chapters on Brazil 1930-2004 in L.
Bethell (org..) The Cambridge History of Latin America, v. 9, Cambridge,
2008.
Matias Spektor
Matias Spektor coordinates the Center for the Study of International Relations
at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), where he is an assistant professor in
International Relations. His first book is entitled Henry Kissinger and Brazil (in
Portuguese, Zahar, 2009). His main current research projects are a history of
emerging countries in international society and a study of US-Brazil relations
since the end of the Cold War. Matias also manages the one-year professional
graduate degree in IR at FGV, and an oral history program on the Foreign
Relations of Brazil since the End of the Cold War. He is managing editor with
FGV Press for a new pocket series in IR. Previously Matias worked as an
official for the United Nations and as a consultant for the Tavistock Institute
in London. He earned his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2007. For
his publications and a detailed description of his research activities, see
www.fgv.br/cpdoc.
Mônica Hirst
Monica Hirst is Executive Director of the Fundación Centro de Estudos
Brasileiros (FuNCEB) in Buenos. She is a professor of International Politics at
Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina, and also professor in the M.A.
Program in International Relations at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias
Sociales (FLACSO). Her publications include: Argentina - Brasil: el largo
camino de la integracion, with Maria da Conceição Tavares (Buenos Aires :
Legasa, 1988); Argentina-Brasil: Perspectivas Comparativas Y Ejes De
Integracion (1990); The United States And Brazil: a long road of unmet
expectation (2004), with Andrew Hurrell (to be published in Portuguese by
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Editora FGV in 2009). She is Editor of the Crisis del Estado e intervención
internacional (Edhasa: 2009), in which she is the author of the introduction
and one chapter on South-American intervention in Haiti.
Odd Arne Westad
Is a Professor in the Department of International History, London School of
Economics and Political Science. Received his PhD in history from the
University of North Carolina in 1990. Professor Westad has taught at the
University of North Carolina and at Johns Hopkins University and served for
eight years as Director of Research at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Since
1998 he has been in the Department of International History at the LSE, where
he teaches Cold War history and the history of East Asia. Since 2004 Professor
Westad has been head of department and co-director of the new LSE Cold War
Studies Centre. Professor Westad has written or edited twelve books on
contemporary international history, including The Global Cold War: Third
World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Cambridge, 2005; winner
of the Bancroft Prize), Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950
(Stanford, 2003) and, with Jussi Hanhimäki, The Cold War: A History in
Documents and Eyewitness Accounts (Oxford, 2003). He has held visiting
fellowships at Cambridge University, Hong Kong University, and New York
University, and has been the recipient of major grants from the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the British Arts and Humanities
Research Board. He was awarded the 2000 Bernath Lecture Prize from the
Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. Professor Westad is a
founding editor of the journal Cold War History, and, with Professor Melvyn
Leffler (UVa), the General Editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the
Cold War.
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