Rate My Professor Roberto Goulart Menezes

Roberto Goulart Menezes is Decano de Pós-Graduação and Professor Associado IV at the Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IREL) of the Universidade de Brasília. He holds a doctorate in Political Science with emphasis in International Relations from the Universidade de São Paulo. He is a CNPq Productivity in Research scholar and has served as visiting professor at the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University (2018-2019) and at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2024). He teaches in the Graduate Programs in International Relations (PPGRI/IREL/UnB) and in Social Sciences – Comparative Studies on the Americas (PPGECsA/ICS/UnB). He is editor of the journal Horizontes – Revista de Graduação do Instituto de Relações Internacionais and coordinates the Núcleo de Estudos Latino-Americanos (NEL/IREL/UnB). He is a researcher with the Instituto Nacional de Estudos sobre os Estados Unidos (INCT-INEU/CNPq/FAPESP) and a member of the Releu – Red Latinoamericana de Investigación sobre Estados Unidos, the Coordenação da Rede de Pesquisa em Política Externa e Regionalismo (REPRI), and other academic networks. His research focuses on International Political Economy, regional integration, International Relations of South America/Latin America, Brazilian foreign policy, United States foreign policy, geopolitics, global inequality, international cooperation, and the political economy of development and the environment. He previously served as Vice-Diretor of IREL (2022-2024), coordinated the undergraduate course in International Relations at UnB (2016-2018), held leadership roles in the Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política and Associação Brasileira de Relações Internacionais, contributed to national curriculum guidelines and Enade commissions for International Relations, and participated in multiple university councils and research groups.