Seminar under the scope of the (Semi-)Peripheral Capitalism: Crises and Alternatives Research Group

Bio note

Carlos R. S. Milani defended his doctoral thesis in Development Studies at the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS – France) in 1997. He was an international civil servant at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) from 1994 to 2002 and an assistant professor at Sciences Po Paris from 1997 to 2002. Milani was a visiting researcher at Sciences Po Paris in 2009 and at the University of California, Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) in 2017. He is currently a Full Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ), researcher at CNPq (Productivity 1-B), Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Centre for International Relations (CEBRI) and a member of the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN – Brown University, USA).

His research agenda and areas of expertise include comparative foreign policy and regional powers, development cooperation policies, South-South relations, and international policy on human rights and climate change. In 2018, he received the Brazilian Political Science Association (ABCP) award for best article of the year for Brazil’s foreign policy and the ‘graduation dilemma’, co-authored with Leticia Pinheiro and Maria Regina Soares de Lima and published by the International Affairs journal.