Biography

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 of the University of Marburg. Her thesis explored the complex interrelations between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States through Neoclassical Realism and its effects on the Persian Gulf regional system. Throughout her publication, she has worked with Persian Gulf international politics, focusing particularly on Iran and Saudi Arabia and the dynamics of change and continuance in the region. She is currently advancing two lines of research. First, she investigates the possibilities of transnational cross-comparison between different development paths in oil-producing countries in the Global South, particularly Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Algeria. Her work combines domestic political configurations and systemic conditions that interplay in the consolidation and persistence of extractivist societies and their perspectives concerning energy transition. Second, her work engages with discussions of the sociology of knowledge in the IR disciplinary field, exploring the 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 socio-economic shifts that configure the current reconfiguration of the international system. Her alma mater is the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), and she has an International Relations and Comparative Foreign Policy Master's from the University of Brasília (UnB).

Research interests

• Global IR 

• Neoclassical Realism

• Global South and Systemic Reconfigurations

• Middle East Politics

• Latin American Politics

• Extractivism

• Development trajectories