Lucas Grassi Freire

• PhD
• Graduate Student at Johns Hopkins University

Este ensaio expõe e discute o princípio normativo da soberania das esferas sociais, tomando, por base, a formulação original do princípio conforme articulada pelo estadista e teólogo Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920). Em seguida, trata do problema da tensa relação entre a esfera do governo civil e as demais, principalmente na teoria auxiliar que legitima...

I In an insightful essay on the role of reason and tradition in classical liberal political and social thought, F. A. Hayek writes that the modern theory of liberty has been advanced by two different, often contradictory, traditions. On the one hand, “speculative and rationalistic” liberalism has aimed at some sort of revolutionary “utopia” that ca...

O objetivo geral deste estudo é examinar como a praxiologia lida com os problemas relacionados ao caráter empirista das formulações do indutivismo, do positivismo lógico e do falsificacionismo na filosofia da ciência. Um objetivo secundário é criticar essas propostas com base na discussão que vem sendo travada na filosofia da ciência há décadas. Ou...

This article is a contribution to the clarification of the central claim of Kenneth Waltz’s neorealist international relations theory. Over the years, the notion that Waltz’s Theory of International Politics postulates a deterministic connection between the configuration of the structure of the international system and the behaviour of each of the...

Classical liberal economists have proposed a theory of intervention-crisis-disintervention cycles that allow us to find the right moment to promote market liberalization. Our project seeks to understand the Brazilian cycle since its democratic opening in the 1980s as a way of enhancing the impact of free market policies. Following the Brazilian pre...

Usando os sítios de Lahun e HK43 Hierakonpolis como exemplos, este artigo coloca à mostra algumas características particulares de sítios arqueológicos urbanos em contraste com os sítios funerários, olhando principalmente para publicações mais recentes sobre os achados em cada um dos sítios mencionados. Um sítio urbano rende material mais relevante...

O presente artigo oferece, pela primeira vez em língua portuguesa, uma tradução do documento EA 15 diretamente do original em acadiano. Essa tradução é seguida de um comentário textual e político à carta em questão, enquadrada numa abordagem teórica própria da disciplina de Relações Internacionais. A carta EA 15 marca a ascensão da Assíria ao selet...

The Amarna Letters: relations between polities in the ancient world

Oaths and curses, embedded in a covenantal context, were paramount normative mechanisms in the foreign relations between ancient Near Eastern kings. This article provides an account of the political role of covenants and oaths and their religious background, presenting textual evidence denoting the notion that breaking a covenant in foreign relatio...

This article provides for the first time a Portuguese translation of Amarna letter EA 15 from the Akkadian original. The translation is followed by a textual and political commentary embedded in a theoretical approach borrowed from the field of International Relations. Letter EA 15 marks the rise of Assyria to the selective group of political units...

In their book Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri develop a narrative about the transition from the mediaeval to the modern, secular, world, showing that there were two projects of modernity at first, but that one prevailed over the other. The prevailing modern worldview did not do away with a transcendental form of control. Instead, it offered...

This article presents a framework for revealing the original contributions of certain forms of 'peripheral' IR scholarship and for encouraging dialogue between 'core' and 'peripheral' scholars. Often, peripheral research is dismissed by the core for being, presumably, a 'mere copy' of 'core scholarship'. Our framework, however, provides a means of...

How can reformational philosophy help us reconceptualise the notion of security? In the field of Security Studies, theoretical isms abound, each of them rooted in a different philosophical tradition. One of these approaches, “securitization theory”, portrays security in connection to five “sectors” that seem to reflect some of the basic aspects of...

This article presents a framework for revealing the original contributions of certain forms of 'peripheral' IR scholarship and for encouraging dialogue between 'core' and 'peripheral' scholars. Often, peripheral research is dismissed by the core for being, presumably, a 'mere copy' of 'core scholarship'. Our framework, however, provides a means of...

In this paper, the primary aim is to introduce and discuss, in light of their context, a number of documents as important sources of ancient Near Eastern international political thought. A secondary aim is to explain ways in which this could matter to more potential dialogue between IR, IPT and the fields dedicated to the study of the ancient Near...

Metatheory is a type of systematic discourse on theory in a given academic discipline. This article further explores this notion of metatheory and critically discusses a number of views against and in favour of metatheory in International Relations (IR). There are ‘strong’ and ‘mild’ claims against metatheoretical IR that should not be ignored. Nev...

To a great extent, ancient Near Eastern international relations operated within covenantal frameworks. In light of renewed interest in world history and the Near East in the discipline of International Relations, this article provides a preliminary exploration of the important practice of covenanting as an alternative account of balance-of-power dy...

This thesis investigates in three parts the role played by metatheory in the discipline of International Relations (IR). Part one defines metatheory as 'systematic discourse about theory' and classifies it in a typology combining elements internal or external to the discipline with intellectual or contextual aspects of theorising. Each combination...

The state is one of the most used terms in international relations (IR) theory, and yet IR scholars influenced by both sociology and political philosophy have complained that the state and the states-system have been inadequately theorized in the field. What does the discipline mean when referring to the state? Why should state theorizing be part o...

Martin Wight’s contribution to British IR is well-known. His radical defence of Christian pacifism is often contrasted with his acute sense of ‘tragedy’ in the analysis of power politics. Such tension has been characterised as an ‘enigma’. Some have claimed that Wight changed his mind over time, labeling his position as ultimately ‘realist’ in the...

Este estudo analisa a relação entre os motivos básicos religiosos do pensamento teórico, ontologia geral e seu uso específico na teoria política ‘internacionalista’ no início da Era Moderna. A análise segue a filosofia reformacional de Herman Dooyeweerd na identificação dos pressupostos básicos de Origem da existência, coerência e diversidade da re...

CarterChristopher, Magnetic Fever: Global Imperialism and Empiricism in the Nineteenth Century.Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009. Pp. xxvi+168. ISBN 978-1-60618-994-8. $35.00 (paperback). - Volume 43 Issue 4 - Lucas G. Freire