Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes

Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes is a Departmental Lecturer in Global Governance. His main research interests are in the areas of security studies, transnational and local activism, public policies, and Brazilian studies, looking mostly at the regulation and trade of weapons, politics and transnational crime, militarism, and Brazilian politics, foreign policy, and public policies. His research uses a variety of methods, including archival research, participant observation, and econometrics. 

He has experience with conducting policy-oriented research at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), a public research institute with offices in Brasília and Rio de Janeiro, working in the areas of foreign policy, security issues, regulation of dangerous goods (e.g., arms, hazardous substances), science-policy interfaces, and the politics of policy-making. 

His recent academic writings have appeared in Contemporary Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, Journal of Global Security Studies, British Journal of Politics & International Relations, Global Policy, Health Affairs, and others. He has proposed, among other things, using the concept of demagoguery to study foreign policy rhetoric, and an English School theoretical framework to analyse the creation and evolution of the global oceans regime. He has also emphasised the role of frames and shared identities in the mobilization of transnational support against oppression, as observed in the struggles against Pinochet’s regime in Chile and South Africa’s apartheid. 

He holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford and a BA in Economics from São Paulo State University. Before joining academia, he was an officer in the Brazilian Army.