The proposal In one of my first columns for DPolitik, aptly titled “Is Dictatorship Pop(?)” (references below), I briefly touched on the topic of the variety of dictatorships around the world. But thi...

By Nicolas Zupardo Dutra* and Cinthya Araújo In December 2024, we published a column discussing the Syrian rebel offensive and its implications for the country’s future. This article can be understood...

The trial of the attempted coup in Brazil by forces loyal to Jair Bolsonaro’s government in the Supreme Court represents a unique moment in Brazilian history and carries a weight similar to that which...

In various media sectors in Brazil, journalists have created and perpetuated a false distinction between ‘political’ and ‘economic’ decisions in order to mask the bias of their political opinions. For...

In the last column… In the last column, of the same name but Part I, we discussed the historical events that led to the creation (and the justification) of the Chinese principle of non-intervention. T...

Ever since humanity took to the skies with airplanes, the risk of losing highly skilled pilots has always been a pressing issue. Since the final years of World War I, people began thinking about and a...

The Dependency Theory emerged in an attempt to analyse Latin American economies and their relations with the rest of the world. It analyses the process of integration of peripheral countries into inte...

A recent UN report highlighted “catastrophic” famine in Gaza. According to the Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC), between April and July 2025, more than 20,000 children were hospitalized f...

Scientific and biotechnological advances have transformed our capacity to intervene in human life and, with this, the promise of eradicating diseases and eliminating suffering becomes undeniably seduc...

The escalation of tensions with the United States reignites the debate over Brazilian foreign policy and its actual autonomy in the face of pressure from a global power. Brazil has, over the past few...