Kai Michael Kenkel

Researcher

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He is Associate Professor 2 and Vice-Coordinator of the Academic Postgraduate Program at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio). Since 2014 he has been an Associated Researcher at the German Institute of Global and Areas Studies in Hamburg, where he completed a post-doctoral period in 2016-2017. She has a CNPq Level 2 productivity grant and a FAPERJ Scientist Grant. She holds a doctorate and a master’s degree from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales (IUHEI, now IHEID/Graduate Institute) in Geneva, and an undergraduate degree (with Departmental Honors) from Johns Hopkins University. He has taught at renowned universities in Brazil, Canada, Germany and Switzerland. He is the General Coordinator of the Democracy and Armed Forces Center at PUC-Rio. From 2013 to 2016 he was Coordinator of the Graduate Program at IRI/PUC-Rio and from 2010 to 2013, editor of the magazine Contexto Internacional. He was Director of Institutional Relations for the Brazilian Association of Defense Studies from 2014 to 2016. He is currently Coordinator of the Thematic Area of International Security, Strategic Studies and Defense Policy of the Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI). He publishes, teaches and advises in the area of international security, with an emphasis on peace operations, humanitarian intervention, civil-military relations and small arms.