Forsker
Benjamin de Carvalho
Kontaktinfo og filer
Sammendrag
Benjamin de Carvalho er forsker 1 ved NUPI. Hans forskningsinteresse ligger mellom tre hovedområder: Han jobber med problemstillinger knyttet til historisk endring, slik som dannelsen av nasjonalstaten i Europa, suverenitet og betydningen av religion og konfesjonalisme.
Han er involvert i flere prosjekter om FNs fredsbevaring, og har arbeidet med beskyttelse av sivile, samt seksuell og kjønnsbasert vold i Liberia, Tsjad og Sudan. Han er også involvert i prosjekter som undersøker betydningen av statusbegrepet i staters utenrikspolitikk, med fokus på Norge og Brasil. Sentrale tema her er rollen små stater spiller i internasjonal politikk, fremvoksende makter og stormakters ansvar. Andre forskningsinsteresser er hegemoni, populærkultur og teorier om internasjonal politikk.
De Carvalho ble tildelt sin doktorgrad 16. mai 2009 ved Universitetet i Cambridge, hvor han leverte avhandlingen Sovereignty, Religion and the Nation-State.
De Carvalho er sjefsredaktør i tidsskriftet Cooperation and Conflict, 2023-2027.
Ekspertise
Utdanning
2009 PhD, University of Cambridge, UK: Sovereignty, Religion and the Nation-State
2001 Mastergrad ved New School for Social Research, New York, USA
Arbeidserfaring
2003- Doktorgradsstipendiat/seniorforsker/forsker 1 ved NUPI
Aktivitet
Filter
Tøm alle filtre
Belated Courtship? The Uneasy Partnership between Brazil and the EU
The EU accorded the status of “strategic partner” to Brazil in 2007. While the aim of this was to foster more effective cooperation with the Latin American giant, the record of the partnership is less than clear. While the strategic partnership was a clear acknowledgement of Brazil’s aspirations and status potential, it may have been sealed too late to have an impact on Brazil’s trajectory towards a more prominent global role and may mean too little for actually changing the course of EU–Brazil relations. For, viewed from Brasilia, the extent to which the special partnership has affected the relationship between the EU and Brazil remains an open question. Despite its new status as a strategic partner, Brazil’s foreign policy has been surfing on the waves of South–South cooperation schemes. So, while the EU remains a market for Brazilian exports which can-not be overlooked, Brazil’s search for new partners and China’s increased prominence in its trade balance have provided a new range of opportunities in foreign policy. As other states, including Norway, are now working out strategies to seal more formalized relationships with Brazil – and other emerging powers, for that matter – the strategic partnership between Brazil and the EU offers important lessons to take into account. While the strategic partnership was initially more valuable for Brazil, this did not last. Further-more, it was unclear what the new label entailed in practice, and how it was supposed to affect actual cooperation patterns.
Systems of Tax Evasion and Laundering (STEAL)
Prosjektet ser på hvordan kapital beveger seg over landegrensene i dagens globaliserte økonomi....
Conceptual Unclarity and Competition: The Protection of Civilians and the Responsibility to Protect
The Protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping: Concept, Implementation and Practice