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  1. Organized Crime and Hybrid Governance of Violence in the Brazilian Amazon

    Article • Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, September 2025, LSE Press

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  2. DIREÇÃO E PLANEJAMENTO DE INTELIGÊNCIA POLICIAL NO ENFRENTAMENTO ÀS ORGANIZAÇÕES CRIMINOSAS

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Segurança Pública, February 2025, Revista Brasileira de Seguranca Publica

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  3. Brazilian Amazon as Locus of Criminal Non-State Actors in South America

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  4. Brazilian Organizations as Transnational Criminal Non-state Actors: The Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  5. Comando Vermelho: From a Prison Gang to a Transnational Criminal Organization

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  6. Conceptualizing Criminal Non-state Actors

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  7. Criminal Non-State Actors

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  8. Governance Capacities and Criminal Non-state Actors: Dominating the Local to Expand Globally

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  9. Introduction: Criminal Entities as a Distinct Typology of Non-state Actors and Its Role in South America

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  10. Pioneering Criminal Non-state Actors in South America: The Rise and Downfall of Colombia Drug Cartels and Their Consequences

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  11. Complex Hybrid Governance in the South American Borderlands: The Agency of Grassroots Actors in Transforming Violent Conflicts

    Article • Conflict Resolution Quarterly, October 2024, Wiley

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  12. Shaping violences: state formation, symbolic violence and the link between public and private interests in Brazil

    Article • Peacebuilding, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  13. Dependency Theory “Teaching Dependency Theory in the Global South: Experiences in Brazil and Bolivia”

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  14. State Violence in Brazil and Its Impacts on SDG 16

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  15. Ruling Violently

    Article • Revista Científica General José María Córdova, July 2023, Escuela Militar de Cadetes Jose Maria Cordova

    Dr. Nicole Jenne, Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  16. Rússia e a Guerra Civil Síria

    Article • Conjuntura Austral, March 2023, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  17. Terrorismo e Contraterrorismo sob a perspectiva das potências militares na Ásia Central

    Article • Revista da Escola de Guerra Naval, January 2023, Revista da Escola de Guerra Naval

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  18. Organizações Criminosas e Governança Híbrida na América do Sul: O contexto da COVID-19

    Article • Relaciones Internacionales, November 2022, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  19. Política Externa da China e a Cooperação Internacional:

    Article • Monções Revista de Relações Internacionais da UFGD, November 2022, Universidade Federal de Grande Dourados

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  20. Exploring subjectivities of peace, violence, and power among the youth in Brazil

    Article • Peace and Change, June 2022, Wiley

    Juliano Cortinhas, Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  21. Resenha do livro The Unintended Consequences of Peace: Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Defesa, April 2022, Associacao Brasileira de Estudos de Defesa - ABED

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  22. Peace in perspective: the historical development of Peace Studies and the Bahá'í concept

    Article • Journal of the Sociology and Theory of Religion, March 2022, Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  23. Criminal governance and systems of parallel justice: Practice and implications in Brazilian urban peripheries

    Article • International Journal of Law Crime and Justice, March 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  24. Peace and Violence in Brazil

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  25. Teaching in Critical Junctures: Challenges to International Relations Bachelor’s Programs in Brazil During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  26. Atores não-estatais violentos transnacionais na América do Sul

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Segurança Pública, November 2021, Revista Brasileira de Seguranca Publica

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  27. Peace and Violence in South America: From Security to a Peace Studies Approach

    Article • October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  28. Do Non-State Actors Influence Climate Change Policy? Evidence from the Brazilian Nationally Determined Contributions for COP21

    Article • Journal of Politics in Latin America, August 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  29. Refugiados e a Guerra Civil Síria: análise e perspectivas sobre o acolhimento na Turquia

    Article • Revista Tempo e Argumento, April 2021, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  30. Blockages to Peace Formation in Latin America: The Role of Criminal Governance

    Article • Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  31. Feltran, G. (2020). The Entangled City: Crime as Urban Fabric in Sao Paulo

    Article • Crime Law and Social Change, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  32. Violent Nonstate Actors and the Emergence of Hybrid Governance in South America

    Article • Latin American Research Review, January 2021, Latin American Studies Association

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  33. Governance by Violent Non-state Actors as a Challenge to Sustainable Peace in Brazil

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  34. Civil Society and State Violence in South America

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  35. Hybrid governance as a dynamic hub for violent non-state actors: examining the case of Rio de Janeiro

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, January 2021, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  36. De la fragmentación de las estructuras criminales a una proto-mafia: un análisis del Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) en Sudamérica

    Article • December 2020, Grupo de Estudios en Seguridad Internacional (GESI)

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  37. PAZ E CRIME ORGANIZADO NA AGENDA 2030: O PAPEL DA ORGANIZAÇÃO DOS ESTADOS AMERICANOS

    Article • Revista Latinoamericana Estudios de la Paz y el Conflicto, June 2020, Latin America Journals Online

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  38. Cooperação Militar contra o Crime Organizado: Brasil e Paraguai no combate ao narcotráfico (1988 – 2017)

    Article • Sociedade e Cultura, May 2020, Universidade Federal de Goias

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  39. Bruno Manso and Camila Nunes Dias, A guerra: A ascensão do PCC e o mundo do crime no Brasil (São Paulo: Todavia, 2018), pp. 318, E-book. - Gabriel Feltran, Irmãos: Uma história do PCC (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2018), pp. 284, E-book.

    Article • Journal of Latin American Studies, February 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  40. A Síria como ator na Guerra Civil Libanesa: motivações e efeitos da intervenção de uma terceira parte na resolução de conflitos

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Defesa, January 2020, Associacao Brasileira de Estudos de Defesa - ABED

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  41. Peace and Conflict in Brazil

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  42. Violent Conflicts in South America

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  43. Urban Violence and Crime

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  44. Degradação da Paz no Norte do Brasil

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas e Internacionais - RPPI, November 2019, Portal de Periodicos UFPB

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  45. Política Externa, Mídia e o Mercosul: uma análise da cobertura da Folha de São Paulo e O Estado de São Paulo

    Article • Revista Política Hoje, October 2019, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  46. Violence and Justice in UNASUR’s Institutional History. From the Early Optimism to the Fragile Cooperation Combating Criminality

    Article • Estudios Políticos (Medellín), May 2019, Universidad de Antioquia

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  47. Brazilian criminal organizations as transnational violent non-state actors: a case study of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)

    Article • Trends in Organized Crime, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  48. Transnational Organized Crime and Structural Violence in Brazil

    Article • November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  49. Religion and International Relations in Brazil

    Article • Meridiano 47 - Journal of Global Studies, April 2018, Instituto Brasileiro de Relacoes Internacionais

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  50. Pope John Paul II discourses and Poland's national symbols during the political transition (1978-1989)

    Article • Religare Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências das Religiões da UFPB, December 2017, Portal de Periodicos UFPB

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  51. Instituições Estatais e Segurança Internacional: um histórico das mudanças nos Estados Unidos após o 11 de setembro

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas e Internacionais - RPPI, December 2017, Portal de Periodicos UFPB

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  52. Uma História dos Povos Árabes

    Article • Malala, October 2017, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  53. Organized Crime and Peace Research

    Article • Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, September 2017, OpenEdition

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  54. Book review on Quality Peace

    Article • Peacebuilding, August 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  55. Os diagnósticos sobre paz e segurança no Brasil: uma análise comparativa das bases de dados sobre violência e conflitos

    Article • Conjuntura Austral, December 2016, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  56. Crime, violence and regional organizations

    Article • International Studies Perspectives, September 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  57. War in poor areas of Latin America

    Article • Cambridge Review of International Affairs, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  58. Private Military Companies and international law

    Article • Journal of Human Security, April 2016, Librello

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  59. South America as subsystem (IR)

    Article • Latin American Politics and Society, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  60. International Relations education in Brazil

    Article • Journal of Political Science Education, December 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  61. Conflict and violence databases

    Article • Meridiano 47 - Journal of Global Studies, October 2015, Instituto Brasileiro de Relacoes Internacionais

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  62. Bahá'í Human Rights

    Article • Malala, March 2014, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  63. Bahá'í Faith on peace and war

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira

  64. Brazil on Peace and War

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Prof. Marcos Alan S V Ferreira