person Carolina Salgado
schoolPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil; carolpuc2012@gmail.com. ORCiD 0000-0002-6808-2116.Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ)BrazilRio de Janeiro, RJ, BrazilPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil; carolpuc2012@gmail.com. ORCiD 0000-0002-6808-2116.
person Guilherme Casarões
schoolFundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-EAESP), São Paulo – SP, Brazil; guilherme.casaroes@fgv.br. ORCiD 0000-0002-8887-6538.Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-EAESP)BrazilSão Paulo, SP, BrazilFundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-EAESP), São Paulo – SP, Brazil; guilherme.casaroes@fgv.br. ORCiD 0000-0002-8887-6538.
person Ayse Zarakol
schoolUniversity of Cambridge, UK, United Kingdom; az319@cam.ac.uk ORCiD 0000-0002-1236-3226.University of CambridgeUnited KingdomUK, United KingdomUniversity of Cambridge, UK, United Kingdom; az319@cam.ac.uk ORCiD 0000-0002-1236-3226.
Carolina Salgado has a PhD in International Relations from PUC-Rio; a Master’s in International Relations from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ); and graduated in History from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). She is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC), in Brazil. Carolina has spent four years conducting her doctoral research in Germany (2014-2017) and, in 2018, she was an associate researcher at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), in Hamburg. In 2019, she developed postdoctoral research, working at the interface between public and international policies, with an emphasis on international cooperation (funding agency: CNPq). In 2021, she started a second post-doc, at Fiocruz, on the History of Science and Health. She has extensive experience in research and documentation in the fields of Contemporary History and Foreign Policy Analysis. She has also practical experience in international organizations, including fellowships at the Delegation of Brazil to the United Nations in Geneva, and at the EU-LAC Foundation in Hamburg. Current research areas include global health; foreign policy analysis and international organizations; international politics of the European Union; EU-Latin American relations; democracy and extremism in Europe and Latin America.
Guilherme Casarões has a PhD and a Master’s in Political Science from the University of São Paulo; a Master’s in International Relations from the State University of Campinas (San Tiago Dantas Program); is a specialist in History and Political Cultures from the Federal University of Minas Gerais; and graduated in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. He is a professor at the São Paulo School of Business Administration at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-EAESP) in the areas of Public Administration, Political Science and International Relations, where he served as Vice-Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Public Administration between 2017 and 2018. Guilherme teaches at the Professional Master’s in International Management (MPGI) of the same institution. He was a visiting fellow at Tel Aviv University (2011) and Brandeis University (2015) and a visiting associate at the University of Michigan (2019-2020). He is coordinator of the Observatory of the Extreme Right (OED). He has published research and articles in the areas of Brazilian Foreign Policy, Extreme Right and Religious Nationalism, Brazil-Middle East Relations and Theory of International Relations. Among his most relevant publications are ‘The Evolution of Brazilian Foreign Policy Studies: four perspectives’ (Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics, 2018), ‘The place of Israel and Palestine in Brazilian foreign policy’ (História, 2014), ‘Itamaraty’s Mission’ (Cairo Review of Global Affairs, 2014), ‘Itamaraty on the Move’ (Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2013), ‘Brazil, East Asia, and the Shaping of World Politics’ (Perceptions, 2013), ‘Itamaraty’s role in the Foreign Policy of the Collor de Mello Government’ (Brazilian Journal of International Policy, 2012).
Ayşe Zarakol is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, where she also has an appointment as a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College. Her research is at the intersection of historical sociology and IR, focusing on East-West relations in the international system, history and future of world order(s), conceptualisations of modernity and sovereignty, rising and declining powers, and Turkish politics in a comparative perspective. Her articles have appeared in journals such as International Organization, International Affairs, International Theory, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, International Relations, International Studies Review etc. She is the author of After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Hierarchies in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Before the West: the Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders, which advances an alternative global history for IR focused on (Eur)asia (Cambridge University Press, 2022). She is currently on the editorial boards of the following journals: International Organization, Review of International Studies, International Theory, International Relations, International Studies Review, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Global Constitutionalism, Relaciones Internacionales and New Area Studies.