International Relations
The Brazilian Studies Programme in Oxford is closely connected with a range of research programmes that are concerned with the International Relations of Brazil and Brazils evolving position in the global order.
Regional Powers Network
Oxford is part of a three-year programme of research on regional powers. The other main partners are Sciences-Po in Paris and the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg and there is also a network of collaborating institutions in different parts of the world, including the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. One research cluster examines the ideas, interests, resources and strategies of regional powers. The second investigates the links between regional powers and global order. Full details can be found here.
Brazil in a Global Order
This project, led by Professor Andrew Hurrell and Professor Leslie Bethell, focuses on historically constructed and institutionally and socially embedded ideas related to Brazilian identity and to different understanding of where Brazil fits in relation to Latin or South America, to the hemisphere, to the 'West', and to the developing world.
Emerging Powers and Global Order
This project is being undertaken by Professor Andrew Hurrell and Dr Amrita Narlikar and investigates the roles, positions and policies of emerging powers. The project focuses on two countries, Brazil and India, and three regimes (WTO, proliferation, climate change).
Provincializing Westphalia
This project, organized by Professor Andrew Hurrell and Dr Rahul Rao, seeks to broaden debates about international political order beyond recent preoccupations with US empire and the fate of global liberalism and to develop a careful comparative and historical analysis of thinking on global order, especially as exemplified in the thinking, policies and practices of major states, regions and societies
The Global Economic Governance Programme
Led by Professor Ngaire Woods, this programme was established to foster research and debate into how global markets and institutions can better serve the needs of people in developing countries.
The three core objectives are: (a) to conduct and foster research into international organizations and markets as well as new public-private governance regimes; (b) to create and maintain a network of scholars and policy-makers working on these issues; and (c) to influence debate and policy in both the public and the private sector in developed and developing countries. Full details can be found here.
Please note: Information for students who are interested in coming to study International Relations or Comparative Government in Oxford can be found here.