Articles – DPolitik

Is Fighting Corruption Authoritarian?

31/05/2026

Is Fighting Corruption Authoritarian? The fight against corruption is often presented as the natural path to strengthening democracy. It is not uncommon to hear that, if we eliminate bribery, favoriti...

Criminal Militarization in Latin America: Drones, 3D Printing, and the New Face of Urban Conflicts

29/05/2026

Opinion's Article · Panorama

By Cinthya Araújo Gomes

In October 2025, during a mega-operation involving 2,500 security forces in the Alemão and Penha favelas of Rio de Janeiro, some were surprised to see the Comando Vermelho (CV) using drones to launch...

Drones over Sudan: how unmanned aircraft deepened the conflict and the humanitarian crisis

15/05/2026

Opinion's Article · Panorama

By Cinthya Araújo Gomes

Sudan is the third largest country in Africa. With over 47 million inhabitants spread across a territory marked by deserts, fertile plains, and one of the continent's largest river basins, the country...

Are There Human Rights Outside the West?

30/04/2026

Artigo de Opinião

By Giulliano Molinero

When I pursued my undergraduate degree in International Relations in Brazil, between 2016 and 2019, I encountered a curious narrative. Years later, I would hear it again from Egyptian, Congolese, Salv...

Between Rivalry and Integration: The Copa Libertadores and the Construction of Latin American Identity

27/04/2026

Opinion's Article

By Djalma de Souza da Silva Filho

Football, beyond being a sport, represents an important cultural and popular expression capable of symbolizing the identity of peoples and communities. In Brazil’s historical development, for example,...

Energy security, war and climate: where are we standing?

17/04/2026

By Beatriz Simonetti

The militarisation and geopoliticization of the climate agendaBecause the ecological crisis is essentially a multidimensional crisis, as complex as it is scalable, climate change agendas are easily in...

U.S. foreign policy: a path with no clear destination

03/04/2026

By Maria Mont' Serrat Bomfim Mariano dos Santos

Foreign Policy is, pardon the punchline, a foreign concept for many. Although it may appear with some regularity on the news, most people are more concerned with domestic policies given that they seem...

What if the end of democracy doesn’t come from the people or the government? Big Tech and the capture of the American state

31/03/2026

By Giulliano Molinero

I recently published an international politics analysis for the Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik, in which I explored the possibility of an autocracy emerging not from executive ag...

Artificial intelligence as an update of the capitalist machinery described by Marx

11/03/2026

By Giovanna Crescitelli

Under the promise of innovation, algorithmic systems deepen familiar forms of domination and exploitation of labor. Artificial intelligence does not usher in a new historical stage of capitalism. It u...

Brazil between blocs and rifts: reforming multilateralism in times of fragmentation

09/03/2026

By Beatriz Simonetti

Brazil’s external positioning in recent years can be interpreted as both as a bid to build a new global hegemony and as a strategy for acting amid the decline of multilateralism. In other words, it is...