On 28 October 2024, the LABMUNDO team will have the joy of welcoming Janis Van Der Westhuizen, Professor of International Politics at the Stellenbosch University (South Africa), to our next monthly plenary session. Starting at 10.30am, Prof Van Der Westhuizen will give a lecture on South Africa, the political situation and international insertion at the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ), Carlos Hasenbalg Room, in an event open to the general public.

PhD in Political Science from Dalhousie University (Canada), Janis van der Westhuizen is Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He has authored the articles Huawei or the US way? Why Brazil and South Africa did not securitise 5G (Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional v.67, n.2; 2024), Ukraine, the 2023 BRICS Summit and South Africa’s non-alignment crisis Contemporary Security Policy, 2024) and Gorgeous but dangerous: Comparing Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town’s soft-power struggles (International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis, v. 77, n. 4; 2022). His research interests focus on comparative politics in the Global South, with an emphasis on the relationship between Brazil and South Africa, South African foreign policy and the interfaces between international and domestic politics.

LABMUNDO’s plenary sessions are periodic meetings between our team, held in person at IESP-UERJ and aimed at discussing the Laboratory’s research agendas, projects under development and topics of common interest.