United States in a Troubled World

Sebastião C. Velasco e Cruz is a full professor in the Department of Political Science at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil; a professor in the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program in International Relations (UNESP/UNICAMP/PUC-SP); and a founding member of the World International Studies Committee and the Brazilian Association of International Relations. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and the title of Docteur d'État from the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, France. He was President of the Center for the Study of Contemporary Culture (CEDEC), Brazil; Coordinator of the National Institute of Science and Technology for Studies on the United States (INCT-INEU), Brazil; and member of the Scientific Committee of the Vilmar Faria Chair of Latin American Studies, of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and a visiting professor at the University of Paris X - Nanterre and the University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne.

• 1. A Problem of Method. The United States Grand Strategy: Debate, Policies, Implications for Brazil.- 2. Between Norms and Facts: Challenges to Security and Dilemmas of the International Order.- 3. After the Cold War: Geopolitical Evolution, Scenarios and Prospects.- 4. The United States in India’s Mirror: Reflections on the Development Strategies and Foreign Relations of an Ascending Country.- 5. A New Course? Obama’s Choices and World Politics.- 6. The Tragedy of Diplomacy and Obama’s Foreign Policy.- 7. The Presence of Tradition: Populism in the USA.- 8. A House Divided: Donald Trump and the Transformation of American Politics.- 9. International Order? Interamerican Relations and Political Outlook for Latin America.