Oliver Stuenkel is a German-Brazilian political scientist, writer and Associate Professor at FGV's School of International Relations in São Paulo, Brazil.^[1] In addition to several books written on emerging powers and global politics — such as BRICS and the Future of Global Order (2015)^[2] and Post-Western World (2016),^[3] he is a columnist for EL PAÍS and Americas Quarterly^[4] and a frequent commentator in the national and international media on topics related to Brazilian politics and foreign policy, US-China relations and political risk. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times,^[5] the Global Times, among others. Besides that, he is a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC,^[6] a non-resident fellow at the German think-tank Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi),^[7] based in Berlin. He has earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Valencia, and he also holds a master's in Public Policy from Harvard University. He has obtained his PhD at the University of Duisburg-Essen.^[8]