Ignacio Javier Cardone – Assistant Professor in International Relations of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and researcher at the International Relations Research Centre of the University of São Paulo. Brazil has been usually linked with images of the tropical, both internationally and domestically. However, the country has been actively involved with the southern polar …
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Raúl Zepeda Gil – PhD Candidate, Defence Studies Department, King’s College London. Member of the Environmental Security Research Group. Undoubtedly, international negotiations highlight the constant contradiction between foreign policy compromises and internal policy. This trend is even more evident by not archiving the National Determined Contributions (NDCs) to greenhouse gas emission in the Paris Accord …
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Maria Berta Ecija Salgado – PhD candidate in global health diplomacy (King’s Brazil Institute and African Leadership Centre) Throughout the pandemic management, we have seen periods of hope and desolation around the globe. However, as the world starts to move towards a renewed optimism due to several vaccines’ approvals and subsequent rollouts, we witness Brazil …
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Dr Daniel Mandur Thomaz – Lecturer in Lusophone Studies, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, King’s College London. Associate Fellow at King’s Brazil Institute. During WWII, Latin America was considered by Britain as a region of strategic, economic and military interest (Bratzel and Leonard, 2007), as well as a source of concern due …
Marketa Jerabek – PhD (University of São Paulo and King’s College London) Researcher in Brazilian philanthropy at the Department of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences at the José Luiz Egydio Setúbal Foundation The Covid-19 pandemic has caused much grief around the world. It is not only a health but also an economic calamity. It is …
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