Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel is a political analyst and a Professor at the School of International Relations at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo. He is also a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, a non-resident Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, and a columnist for Estado de São Paulo, Americas Quarterly and Foreign Policy. His research focuses on geopolitics and global order, Brazilian foreign policy, Latin American politics and emerging powers. He is the author of several books about geopolitics, including The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (Lexington) and the Post- Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order (Polity).