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Education

• B.A. in Law, Federal University of Pernambuco, 2015
• M.A. in Political Science and International Relations, Federal University of Pernambuco, 2018
• Ph.D in Political Science and International Relations, Federal University of Pernambuco, 2023 (expected)

Experience

• 2020: Research Assistant
  • Federal University of Pernambuco
  • Project: Citation analysis of UN General Assembly resolutions
  • Supervisor: Professor Rafael Mesquita
• 2019: Teaching Assistant
  • Federal University of Pernambuco
  • Course: Introduction to International Relations
  • Supervisor: Professor Marcelo de Almeida Medeiros

Skills

• Languages
  • Portuguese (Native)
  • English (TOEFL ITP: 637)
• Computing
  • R
  • Excel

Relevant Courses

• 2021: Basic Statistics for Political Science
  • Federal University of Pernambuco
• 2020: Data Science for International Relations: Analysis and Visualization
  • Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV)

Publications

Mais e menos democracia: o conceito de estado de exceção na sociedade mundial

Pires, Antonio. "Mais e menos democracia: o conceito de estado de exceção na sociedade mundial." Nono Congresso Latinoamericano de Ciência Política, 2017, Montevideo.

A lei como arma na vida e morte das democracias: Resenha do Livro How Democracies Die, de Steven Levitsky e Daniel Ziblatt

Pires, Antonio. "A lei como arma na vida e morte das democracias: Resenha do Livro How Democracies Die, de Steven Levitsky e Daniel Ziblatt." Revista Sociedade & Estado. v. 34 n. 02, Maio/Agosto, 2019.

Technical Works

• The UN Security Council Debates, with Mirco Schoenfeld, Steffen Eckhard, Ronny Patz e Hilde van Meegdenburg, 2017
  • Available at Harvard Dataverse

Research in Progress

• Sovereignty and Intervention at the United Nations Security Council in the post-Cold War (Doctoral Thesis)

Working Papers

• From “text-as-text” to “text-as-data”: the potential of research in International Relations, with Davi Moreira and Marcelo de Almeida Medeiros
• The references of the nations: a bibliometric analysis of UN General Assembly resolutions since 1945, with Rafael Mesquita (abstract accepted for 2021 ECPR General Conference)