Oliver Stuenkel is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo. He is also a non-resident Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, a columnist for EL PAÍS and Americas Quarterly, and a commentator for Globonews. He is the author of IBSA: The Rise of the Global South (Routledge 2014) and The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (Lexington, 2015) and Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order (Polity, 2016). The Portuguese version of The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (BRICS e o Futuro da Ordem Global) was published by Editora Paz e Terra and in Chinese (金砖国家与全球秩序的未来) by Shanghai People’s Press in 2017. Post-Western World was published in Chinese (中国之治终结西方时代) by Beijing Mediatime in 2017 and in Portuguese (O Mundo Pós-Ocidental) by Zahar in 2018.
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