Dr Rodrigo Campos
Research Associate

Rodrigo Campos is a politics and IR researcher working at the intersections between religion and security, with a specific focus on the global dimensions of Evangelical activism within police and military institutions and its relationship to democratic governance. He has extensive ethnographic experience in Brazil, Western Sahara and Egypt. His main research interests include far-right politics, Brazilian militarism, religion and security, global Evangelicalism, and political theory. He co-directed the documentaries A Thread of Hope: Independence or War in Western Sahara (2017) and School Without Censorship (2018). He is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate at the department of Politics and International Relations in the project "Volunteers and Vulnerabilities: the Politics of Policing Partnerships", funded by the ESRC Vulnerabilities and Policing Futures Research Centre.

Rodrigo received his PhD in Politics from the University of York in 2024, with a research about the impact of Evangelical base-building with the police forces in Brazil and its relationship to the far-right. Prior to that, he received an MA in International Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Programme (Sao Paulo State University, Pontificate Catholic University of Sao Paulo and Campinas States University) in 2017, and a BA in International Relations from the Federal University of Pampa in 2014, in Brazil.

(2023). The International Turn in Far-Right Studies: A Critical Assessment. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 51, n. 3, July 2023: 892-919. 

Book Chapters

(2018) The slow construction of Brazil’s South-American identity: regionalism and integration in Brazil’s discourse at the UN’s General Assembly. In: André Luiz Reis and Eduardo Swartman (eds.), Inserção Internacional do Brasil: Desafios da Política Externa e de Defesa. Porto Alegre : Editora UFRGS, pp. 100-135 (with Fernando P. de Mattos and Eduardo Swartman)

(2016) Preliminary remarks towards a research agenda on Religion and International Relations. In: Anna Carletti and Marcos A. Ferreira (orgs.), Religião e Relações Internacionais: Dos Debates Teóricos ao Papel do Cristianismo e do Islã. Paraná : Juruá Editora, 2016, pp. 53-86.

Books

(2020) No Way to Gaza: A Chronicle of Adventure and Fraud under the Egyptian Blockade. London: MEMO Publishers (with Renatho Costa and Lucas B. Diaz). Portuguese edition published in 2021 by Monitor do Oriente.

Translations

(2017) An Inquiry into the Moral and Religious Dimensions of International Politics: the Thought and Contribution of Rui Barbosa. Contexto Internacional, 39(1), pp. 53-73, 2017. Translated from Portuguese to English. Author: Raphael Spode.

(2016) Religion in International Relations: Theory and Practice. In: Anna Carletti and Marcos A. Ferreira (org.), Religião e Relações Internacionais: Dos Debates Teóricos ao Papel do Cristianismo e do Islã. Paraná: Juruá Editora. Translated from English to Portuguese. Author: Jeffrey Haynes.

(2015) Securitization and Desecuritization. Monções: Revista de Relações Internacionais, 4(8), pp. 237-275. Translated from English to Portuguese. Author: Ole Waever.

(2013) Anarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics. Monções: Revista de Relações Internacionais, 2(3), pp. 420-473. Translated from English to Portuguese: Author: Alexander Wendt.