Luíza Cerioli is a Brazilian scholar based in Germany with training in International Relations and Political Science. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Centre for Near and Middle East Studies at the University of Marburg. Her thesis examined the complex interrelations among Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States through the lens of Neoclassical Realism and their effects on the Persian Gulf regional system. Throughout her publications, she has focused on Persian Gulf international politics, particularly Iran and Saudi Arabia and the dynamics of change and continuity in the region. She is currently advancing two lines of research. First, she investigates the possibilities of transnational cross-comparison among different development paths in oil-producing countries in the Global South, particularly Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Algeria. Her work combines domestic political configurations with systemic conditions that interact in the consolidation and persistence of extractivist societies and their perspectives on the energy transition. Second, her work engages with discussions of the sociology of knowledge in the IR disciplinary field, exploring venues for pluralizing and diversifying Neoclassical Realism through cases, ideas, and frameworks from the Global South. Both lines of research focus on improving our theoretical lenses to grasp current multifactorial political and socioeconomic shifts that are reconfiguring the international system. Her alma mater is the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), and she holds a master's in International Relations and Comparative Foreign Policy from the University of Brasília (UnB).

• Geopolitics and Extractivism in the Global South

How resource-rich nations navigate development challenges and external (inter)dependencies amidst growing geopolitical concerns

• Neoclassical Realism and the Global South

Theoretical innovation and approaches to International Relations in the Global South, particularly focusing on Latin America and the Middle East

• Multipolarity and Global Power Shifts

Changing global order and the positioning of the Global South’s states in transforming economic and political alignment

• Global South and Systemic Reconfigurations

• Extractivism and Geopolitics of the Energy Transition

• Global IR 

• Neoclassical Realism

• Middle East Politics

• Latin American Politics

• Development trajectories