Matias Spektor is an Associate Professor of International Relations and runs the Center for International Relations at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in

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. Born in

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, he grew up in the Brazilian state of

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and in

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. He holds a B.A. and a Masters in International Relations from the University of Brasília, as well as a Masters and a Doctorate from the

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. Spektor is the author of several books regarding

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and Brazil-United States relations, including ''Azeredo da Silveira'' and ''The Origins of Nuclear Cooperation''. He writes a weekly

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for Folha de S. Paulo, the

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, and spent time as a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,

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and the London School of Economics. Spektor has founded the Center for International Relations at FGV, and he coordinates the foreign policy-related activities in the Oral History Program at the Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary Brazilian History (CPDOC/FGV), which has interviewed former

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, former Ministers of Foreign Affairs and

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throughout the world, as well as foreign ambassadors in Brazil. He is also a member of the

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and is involved with the Personal Archives program, which preserves personal collections from high-level authorities, such as former Minister of Foreign Affairs Celso Amorim's.

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