O pensamento brasileiro e latino-americano nos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais

Abstract

The field of International Relations in Brazil, in its institutional history, has started its development in 1990s and its consolidation and great expansion in the 2000s. The area, which emerges in the United Kingdom after the First World War and is substantially developed in the United States after the Second World War, has been questioned about its configured study using theories produced predominantly by American institutions, characterizing the monopoly of Anglo-Saxon theories in the field. In the light of that, the current paper analyses the theoretical profile of the education of international politics in the Post-Graduate Programs in International Relations in Brazil, during 2018, under the hypothesis that there is an under-representation of the Latin American theories and brazilian social thought within this area of research. As a consequence, we look into determining which are the theories, themes and authors taught in the disciplines of International Relations Theory I and II, International Political Economy and International Politics, through a content analysis of the educational programs of these disciplines. Through the statistical representations revealed by this quantitative analysis, the research proceeds to a qualitative analysis of the research, with the discussion around the relations of power and the institutional aspects that spreads in the theoretical constructions. Moreover, the analysis concerns how the interaction between global and local dynamics contribute in shaping social structures, particular point to the practice and study of International Relations.