Dr. Oliver Stuenkel

Biography

Oliver della Costa Stuenkel is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo, where he coordinates the São Paulo branch of the School of History and Social Science (CPDOC) and the executive program in International Relations. He is also a non-resident Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin and a member of the Carnegie Rising Democracies Network. His research focuses on rising powers; specifically on Brazil’s, India’s and China's foreign policy and on their impact on global governance. He is the author of the IBSA: The rise of the Global South? (Routledge Global Institutions, 2014) and BRICS and the Future of Global Order (Lexington, 2015) and Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order (Polity, 2016). His other publications include, among others, Rising Powers and the Future of Democracy Promotion (Third World Quarterly) and The Financial Crisis, Contested Legitimacy and the Genesis of intra-BRICS cooperation (Global Governance).  Aside from his academic research, he has written op-eds for newspapers, including the New York Times (US), Global Times (China), Today’s Zaman (Turkey), Mail and Guardian (South Africa), Times of India, The Asian Age, The Hindu (India) and Folha de São Paulo, Valor Econômico, O Globo and Estado de São Paulo (Brazil). He was a Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo (2010) and at the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi (2011, 2012). He was part of the Brazilian delegation at the track II meetings in New Delhi, Chongqing and Moscow in preparation for the 4th, 5th and 7th BRICS Summits. Oliver holds a B.A. from the Universidad de Valencia in Spain, a Master in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he was a McCloy Scholar, and a PhD in political science from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.

Research Interest

International Relations