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Research

Words That Travel Armed

This glossary examines the security vocabulary that the United States has projected into Brazil's 2026 presidential election — narcoterrorism, Foreign Terrorist Organization, cartel, hemispheric threat — and tests, term by term, whether each one actually traveled from Washington or arrived by some other route.
Public Policy

Is Brazil breathing again?

While inaugurating a new administration under Lula da Silva, the country attempts to examine its racialized violence and COVID policies over the last years.
News + Media

Lula wins but Bolsonarismo remains: Ana Barreto on the 2022 Brazilian election

Security in Context's Roosbelinda Cárdenas interviews scholar Ana Barreto about Brazil's general elections, the results of which were finalized on October 30th, 2022.