BRICS Post-Graduate Forum 2023 Award: Raquel Santos, master’s student at IRI/PUC-Rio, won the 2nd Runner Up Master Category for Political and Economic Governance Theme

Raquel Conceição Santos, a master’s student at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio), won the 2nd Runner Up Master Category for Political and Economic Governance Theme at the 2nd BRICS Post-graduate Forum. A researcher in the thematic axis of Governance and Development/Political Economy and supervised by Professor Isabel Rocha de Siqueira, she presented her work on the discourse of de-dollarization that has been widely disseminated in the context of the BRICS, understanding it as a mechanism for attracting more developing countries to join the group. The methodology applied was discourse analysis. In her statement, Raquel says that the award meant a lot not only academically but also personally, since “as my first academic achievement, understanding that my way of thinking and making sense of the political world is valid, especially at this time of the group’s prominence, is of special value”.