person Thales Carvalho
schoolFederal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte – MG, Brazil; thalesleo1@gmail.com. ORCiD 0000-0003-4410-1367.Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)BrazilBelo Horizonte, MG, BrazilFederal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte – MG, Brazil; thalesleo1@gmail.com. ORCiD 0000-0003-4410-1367.
person João Paulo Nicolini Gabriel
schoolFederal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte – MG, Brazil; joao_paulo_apd@hotmail.com. ORCiD 0000-0002-4239-3522.Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)BrazilBelo Horizonte, MG, BrazilFederal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte – MG, Brazil; joao_paulo_apd@hotmail.com. ORCiD 0000-0002-4239-3522.
person Dawisson Belém Lopes
schoolFederal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte – MG, Brazil; dawisson@ufmg.br. ORCiD 0000-0002-1949-1001.Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)BrazilBelo Horizonte, MG, BrazilFederal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte – MG, Brazil; dawisson@ufmg.br. ORCiD 0000-0002-1949-1001.
Thales Carvalho is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), and visiting graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, at the Department of Political Science. He earned a master’s degree in Political Science from UFMG and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC-MG). He is also a member of the International Institutions, Foreign Policy, and Political Regimes Research Network (RIPPERP). His research focuses on international security and defense policies in Latin America, especially on identifying how domestic and international variables interact to produce these policies. His research interests also include foreign policy, quantitative methods, scientometrics, and policy diffusion. His curriculum vitae can be found at https://tlcarvalho.netlify.app/media/cv.html. His Twitter handle is @thaleslcarvalho.
João Paulo Nicolini Gabriel is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and, simultaneously, at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), due to a co-tutorship agreement signed in 2021. His Ph.D. dissertation addresses macro-structural causes that drove emerging powers not to adhere to multilateral non-proliferation mechanisms during the Cold War. He earned a master’s degree in International Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Postgraduate Program in International Relations (São Paulo State University - UNESP/University of Campinas - UNICAMP/Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo - PUC-SP). His research expertise is in IR theory, Indo-Pacific studies, qualitative methods, ethnic interest groups, Indian foreign policy, and comparative politics. His curriculum vitae can be found at lattes.cnpq.br/9356537757576148. His Twitter handle is @jpnicogabriel.
Dawisson Belém Lopes is a Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and a research fellow of the National Council for Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq) in Brazil. He is currently the Deputy Dean for International Affairs at UFMG and has authored/edited ten books and dozens of peer-reviewed articles on topics related to Latin American politics, Brazilian foreign policy, and international institutions. Professor Lopes has previously served as visiting researcher at Germany’s GIGA Hamburg, visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain in Mons, Belgium, Raisina Young Fellow at India’s Observer Research Foundation, and US Department of State ‘SUSI Scholar’ on Foreign Policy. His curriculum vitae can be found at http://lattes.cnpq.br/2002314936671237. His Twitter handle is @dbelemlopes.