‘Now’, Ep. 9: Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel on Brazil’s New Populist President and Government

With the election of a new populist president in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, I thought it was a great moment to sit down with our Brazilian colleague, Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel from Sao Paulo, Brazil. In this podcast we explore why Brazil was so interested in electing this rather controversial politician as president. We also wanted to explore the economic policies that the new finance minister, Paulo Guedes is promoting to bring strong economic growth back to Brazil. Guedes supports a strong Chicago School economic program much in contrast to previous governments there. Oliver is an associate professor of international relations at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in Sao Paulo. There, with a number of his colleagues, he has launched a new School of International Relations. Oliver has written extensively on the politics of the rising powers, including The BRICS and the Future of the Global Order and his most recent book from Polity, Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers are Remaking the Global Order. He is a frequent commentator on the Hemisphere in journals and in the media across the region.