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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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’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...

In the column “What to Do When They Vote Against Your Right to Vote,” I described a cold morning in Vienna, a train bound for Budapest, and a lecture that dismantled some of the most comfortable certa...