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Lucas de Oliveira Paes
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Lucas De Oliveira Paes is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in the Global Order and Diplomacy research group. Lucas holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge (UK), and master's and bachelor's degrees from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). His research interests encompass relational perspectives on the dynamics of order, hierarchy, sovereignty, regionalism, and international relations theory more broadly. In particular, his research has explored hierarchical dynamics and asymmetries in the exercise of state sovereignty across multiple issue areas in international relations, with a focus on environmental governance.
Between 2020 and 2024, Lucas conducted postdoctoral research on Amazonian regionalism as part of the Lorax Project on transboundary ecosystem governance funded by the European Research Council. From 2024 to 2028, he will lead a Research Council of Norway (RCN) Young Research Talents called “RESOLVING: Rebundling sovereignty over local nature in global governance”, which explores comparatively how the exercise of sovereignty over ecosystems such as the Amazon and the Gulf of Guinea has been transformed through multi-level environmental governance.
Lucas's work has been recently featured in journals such as Environmental Politics, Marine Policy, Cooperation and Conflict, Journal of Peace Research, Review of International Studies, and International Affairs.
Education
2020 PhD, Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
2016 Master's degree in International Strategic Studies, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2014 Bachelor's degree in International Relations, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Work Experience
2020- Senior Research Fellow, NUPI
2018-2020 Editor-in-Chief, Cambridge Review of International Affairs
2017-2018 Associate Editor, Cambridge Review of International Affairs
2016-2017 Research Assistant, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, United States
2014-2016 Research Associate, Center for International Studies on Government, Brazil
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Clear all filtersNetworked territoriality: A processual–relational view on the making (and makings) of regions in world politics
This article proposes a processual–relational perspective on region-making and its effects in world politics. It revisits the concepts of regionalism and regionalisation to unearth the relational mechanisms underlying these archetypical pathways of regional emergence. Regionalism refers to the bounding of regions – the definition of its inside and outside, and of which actors fall on either side. Regionalisation denotes the binding of regions, the amalgamations of relations around a shared territoriality. I argue that regions affect world politics in their making through the boundaries raised and relations produced in the process. I then mobilise network theory and analysis to propose a framework for studying the making and makings of regions. Regions’ binding and bounding are rooted in brokerage dynamics that sustain clusters of relations denser inside a regional boundary, rather than outside, and allow some actors to control interactions across that boundary. I illustrate this framework with a case study on the emergence of the Amazon as a region in world politics. I analyse interaction networks in UN-level environmental negotiations involving the ecosystem. The analysis shows how the making of the Amazon has been tied to preserving the position of Amazonian states as the main brokers, speaking for and acting on behalf of the region.
Webinar: IUU fishing and the challenges of sustainable fisheries management: the role of Norway and international cooperation.
In this seminar, we will discuss the role of international cooperation and development assistance in addressing Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Are we making progress on reducing Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated fishing? Challenges and Measures
This seminar seeks to take stock of the progress made by states, regional organizations, and their international partners in reducing IUU fishing, discuss the most successful measures available so far, and reflect on the main challenges of such an endeavour and what can be done differently.
The Lorax Project: Understanding Ecosystemic Politics (LORAX)
Do regional politics around border-crossing ecosystems share important resemblances and differ in significant ways from global politics? ...