Lucas de Oliveira Paes
Senior Research FellowLucas de Oliveira Paes is a Senior Research Fellow and a post-doctoral researcher in the Research Group for Russia, Asia and International Trade at NUPI. He works on the European Research Council-funded “Lorax Project: Understanding Ecosystemic Politics”. He holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge.
His doctoral research drew on network theory and analysis to study international hierarchies and the politics of global and regional hegemonic orders. His research interests focus on relational perspectives on dynamics of order, hierarchy, sovereignty, regionalism, and international relations theory more broadly. In the Lorax project, Lucas will study the ecosystemic politics of the Amazon rainforest.
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News
Lorax in Motion: Mapping Amazon Ecosystem Networks
16.04.2021This is the second in our “Lorax in Motion” series, which reports on our reflections from the project as it unfolds. -
Research project
The Lorax Project: Understanding Ecosystemic Politics (LORAX)
2019 - 2023 (Ongoing)Do regional politics around border-crossing ecosystems share important resemblances and differ in significant ways from global politics?