Carlos Gustavo Poggio is a professor and researcher of international relations with a focus on U.S. foreign policy and Latin America. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil and, before coming to Berea, he taught at universities in Brazil and the United States. He has a Phd in International Studies from Old Dominion University (Virginia, USA), where he received a Fulbright scholarship. He also conducted post-doctoral research at Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA) on US politics. He has published several books and articles on topics such as the political dynamics of Latin America, the relations between Brazil and the United States, the neoconservative thought in U.S. foreign policy, and the social transformation and rise of Trumpism in the United States. His book “Brazil, the United States, and the South American Subsystem: Regional Politics and the Absent Empire” (Lexington, 2012) was chosen by Foreign Affairs Magazine as one of the best international relations books of 2012.
- Ph.D. in International Studies from Old Dominion University (Virginia, USA) with a Fulbright scholarship
- Master’s degree in International Relations from Programa de Pós Graduação San Tiago Dantas (UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP) (São Paulo, Brazil)
- Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) (São Paulo, Brazil)
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on Foreign Trade from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (São Paulo, Brazil)
Books:
Brazil, the United States, and the South American Subsystem: Regional Politics and the Absent Empire. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012.
O pensamento neoconservador em política externa nos Estados Unidos. São Paulo: Editora UNESP, 2010.
Book preface:
“Prefácio”. In: FISHER, M.; KRANISH, M. Revelando Trump: A História de Ambição, Ego e Poder do Empresário que virou Presidente. São Paulo: Alaúde Editorial Ltda., 2017.Selected articlesSelected peer-reviewed articles:
The Advantages of Applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework to the Studies on Ethnic Interest Groups. Foreign Policy Analysis, v. 18, p. 1-23, 2022.
NATO and the South Atlantic. Conjuntura Austral vol. 10, n. 51, 2019
Uma Corrida Armamentista na América Latina? Uma abordagem subsistêmica do rearmamento militar na última década. Revista de Ciências Militares (Lisbon), v. III, p. 633-675, 2015.
Uma política para o continente - reinterpretando a Doutrina Monroe. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, v. 57, p. 115-132, 2014.
To be or not to be: The United States as an Empire. Carta Internacional (USP), v. 7, p. 140-156, 2012.
Brazil and United States: Fading Interdependence. Orbis (Philadelphia), v. 55, p. 147-162, 2011.
The convenient enemy? Neocons, global jihadists and the road to Iraq. Meridiano 47 (UnB), v. 12, p. 4-11, 2011.
Brazil and the institutionalization of South America: from hemispheric estrangement to cooperative hegemony. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, v. 54, p. 189-211, 2011.
Making it hard to win: the meaning of victory and the Iraq War. Revista Brasileira de Estudos Estratégicos, v. 1, p. 120-147, 2010.Recent press articles:
Brazil’s democracy now facing its most crucial test: Will military intervene? | The Hill (January 9, 2023)
Will Brazil have its own Jan. 6 crisis? | The Hill (October 27, 2022)
Gorbachev era diferente de todos os líderes que a União Soviética havia produzido | O Estado de São Paulo (August 30, 2022)
EUA buscam afastar América Latina de Rússia e China com ampliação do Conselho de Segurança | O Estado de São Paulo (September 21, 2022)
Diplomacia de Bolsonaro vai da continência a bandeira dos EUA aos braços de Putin | O Estado de São Paulo (February 17, 2022)
Retorno do Taleban ao poder deve fortalecer grupos mais radicais no Afeganistão | O Estado de São Paulo (August 26, 2021)
Biden’s Cuba problem: Obama made a bet and lost | The Hill (July 23, 2021)