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About us

          The Arab World International Relations Research Group (NUPRIMA) is a research group registered with CNPq since 2018 and linked to the Department of Economics and International Relations (DERI) and the Graduate Program in International Strategic Studies (PPGEEI) at UFRGS. NUPRIMA is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Silvia Ferabolli and functions as a space for directed studies and the promotion and dissemination of new research in the area, as well as assisting in the development and publication of ongoing research by faculty, graduates students who are working on projects involving the International Relations of the Arab World.

          NUPRIMA works with projects that fit into one of the group's three research lines, namely:

Topic I - Arab Regionalism

This line concentrates research on the evolution of the process of Arab regional construction, especially in terms of the constitution of Arab identity, the functioning of Arab regional organizations and institutions, the regionalization of Arab capital, intra-Arab migration, and the formation of an Arab language centered cultural public sphere.

Topic II - The Arab World and the Global South 

This line concentrates research on contemporary Arab thought on the international, as well as on the relations between Arab states, organizations and social movements and the Global South, especially with Brazil and other members of the BRICS, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Africa.

Topic III - Contemporary Arab Conflicts

This line concentrates research on Arab regional security issues, such as the Arab (in)ability to deal with the Israeli problem, the place Iran occupies in the different (and often conflicting) Arab regional, sub-regional, national and sub-national security agendas, the interventions (and counter-interventions) of the Arab Gulf States in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Egypt, and the issue of the Western Sahara as a source of instability in North Africa.

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