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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The contribution is original and previously unpublished, and is not being revised for publication in another journal; if so, this should be justified in the "comments to the editor".


  • The files are submitted in Microsoft Word or RTF format (provided they do not exceed 2 MB).


  • URLs for the references have been provided when necessary.

  • The text is in multiple spaces 1.15; uses a 12-point Calibri light font; uses italics instead of underlining (except URL addresses); has a 1.25 indent in the first line of each paragraph; figures and tables are inserted in the text, and not at the end of the document, as attachments.

  • The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in Authors Guidelines, in the section “About the journal”.



    O texto observa como diretrizes de estilo e os requisitos bibliográficos especificados nas  Diretrizes para autores , na seção “Sobre uma revista”.

  • The name of the author(s) was/were removed from the file and from the "Properties" option in Word, guaranteeing the anonymity required by this journal in the case of submission for peer review (for example, articles), according to the guidelines available in Assuring blind peer review.

  • The article has between 5,000 and 10,000 words, including notes and bibliographic references. It must have in English Portuguese or Spanish: (i) a title; (ii) three keywords; and (iii) a summary of up to 150 words.

  • I have the required degree to publish in Mural Internacional. (In cases of co-authorship, at least the first author must have the complete Master’s degree)
  • I have used the cover page template provided by Mural in the guidelines for authors and I have attached it separately from the article in Additional Documents at the submission.

Author Guidelines

Mural Internacional accepts unpublished academic articles oriented to the study and analysis of International Relations. Articles can be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, or English.

Mural Internacional adopts a strict blind peer review (double-blind) and any suggestions and/or comments, including a new ordering of the text, will be previously discussed and approved by the author. The feedback of the first phase of analysis is normally provided within 150 days from the date of submission. Authors will have a deadline established by the journal to correct and resend (by email) the modified versions of the articles.

Authors and Co-authors must fill the registration form at the Publications Portal when submitting articles/Reviews/Special contributions, informing the academic degree and the available internet resume link.

The maximum number of authors for academic articles is 3; in case of exceeding it, collective authorship must be justified in the text of the article for belonging to a specific group or research team.

Authors and reviewers should send the following information as additional document (separate from the article) as it is in the downloadable template, with the following information:

  • Name as you want it to be published in the journal,
  • Institutional affiliation,
  • Institution City,
  • Institution State,
  • Country of the Higher Education Institution to which you belong,
  • Email to be published in the journal
  • ORCID (mandatory)

 It is a minimum requirement to publish articles in Mural the master's degree completion. In cases of co-authorship, at least the first author must fully meet this criterion.

It is a minimum requirement to submit reviews, to be a master's student.

The editors reserve the right to reject, before the review, manuscripts that do not fit the journal, as in case of inadequacy to the policy and/or editorial scope of Mural Internacional, inappropriate or imprecise analytical development, inconsistent format or non-compliance with guidelines for authors and poor writing style (this list is not exhaustive).

The article must have between 5.000 and 10.000 words, including notes and bibliographic references. If there are tables or graphs, the titles, sources, and captions must come just below them. They must also contain the following items in English and in Portuguese or Spanish: (i) title; (ii) three keywords; (iii) a summary of up to 150 words.

Reviews should focus on books published in the past two years. They should be no longer than 1,000 words, nor should they contain a title, notes, and bibliography. In the beginning, the complete bibliographic reference of the reviewed work must be included, including the ISBN, and 3 keywords in Portuguese or Spanish, and in English.

Articles and reviews must be submitted in accordance with the model provided by Mural. Word, Calibri light font, size 12, multiple spacing 1.15 between lines. Margins: top 3.5, left 2.5, bottom 2, right 2. 1.25 indent in the first line of each paragraph. Citations with more than three lines should be detached from the text, composing a paragraph with 4 cm indentation (without first-line indentation), font Calibri light, size 10, single-spaced. Indirect citations must appear in the text (Last name, year, page).

Footnotes must be of a substantive nature, intended only for additional clarification to the text. They must be in Calibri Light font, Size 9, single-spaced.

The sources and bibliographic references will be listed in alphabetical order, at the end of the text; bearing in mind that bibliographic references should ONLY contain bibliography cited throughout the text.

QUOTED TEXT:

Keep the original punctuation and spelling. If the quoted text contains obvious errors, insert [sic]. Short quotes: enclose in single quotes, with double quotes in single quotes, when necessary. Use single quotes to mark a quote within the quote. If the quote does not start with a capital letter, insert it in angle brackets, e.g.:

[It] is a long quote of more than 40 words inserted in a work and, therefore, presented as an indented paragraph. This is more content in the long quote of more than 40 words. 'This is a quote within the long quote, enclosed in single quotes', according to the rule suggested above (Smith, 2013, p.34). 

Note: Do not use op cit, loc cit, ibid or supra. Repeat the author's name and date to repeat references.  

Mural Internacional uses the Harvard reference system (author/date). In this system, the author's surname, year of publication (and sometimes page numbers) are cited in the text, and a complete bibliographic summary of the reference is provided in a reference list at the end of the manuscript. A basic example below: 

Direct citation:

If the author's name is a natural part of your sentence, the surname must be followed by the year of publication (in parentheses), e.g.:

  • According to Rafael Villa (2004), the acceptance of the idea of democracy as a universal value contributed to Brazilian diplomacy establishing a consensus around the link between democracy, regional integration and development perspectives.

 Indirect citation:

If you do not mention the name of the author in your text, you must put the name of the author and the year of publication in parentheses at the end of the sentence, e.g.:

  • The sector added a loss of more than $ 4 billion reais in foreign exchange deals in 2011 (Pitta, 2013).
  • Prussia functioned at the time as the paymaster and played a fundamental institutional and political role as coordinator of the deepening of the integration process (Mattli, 1999, p. 123).

 

Two or three authors, direct and indirect citation:

All authors (with publication date) must be mentioned within their text, e.g.:

  • As Wilde and Zurn (2012) point out, this German attitude confirms analyzes such as those of Hobolt (2012) and Ecker-Ehrhardt and Wessels (2011), who study the correlation between the assessment that European citizens make about the EU and their own national government.
  • In 2008, Cosan joined Shell to form the Raízen company, which stimulated the concentration of ethanol production by the oil sector (Xavier, Pitta, and Mendonça, 2011).

 

Several authors:

When there are more than three authors, provide only the name of the first author, followed by the Latin term et al. (and all) in italics and the year of publication in parentheses, e.g.:

  • According to Tullo Vigevani et al. (2008), Brazil's position in relation to different themes must be seen in the light of factors constituting foreign policy, rooted in Brazilian society and state: autonomy and universalism.
  • In their view, the bloc would act as a reinforcement for the international insertion of Brazil, without the proper constraints of a common market or supranational traits (Vigevani et al., 2008).

 

Several works by a single author (same year):

When the same author has published more than one document cited in the same year, use lower case letters to differentiate each document, both in direct and indirect citations and in the references., e.g.:

  • Almeida, F. R. de F. (2001a) Do grão ao pão. O trigo nas relações entre o Brasil e a Argentina. Master’s thesis, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
  • Almeida, F. R. de F. (2001b) ‘Aspectos econômicos e ecológicos dos transgênicos’, Revista CADE, ano III, n.4, Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade Moraes Junior, jul/dez.

Page numbers:

If you are directly citing or using ideas from a specific page or pages from a work, you must also include the page number(s) in your citation. Use the abbreviation p. or pp. (for multiple pages) before the page number(s), e.g.:

 

  • Prussia functioned at the time as the paymaster and played a fundamental institutional and political role as coordinator of the deepening of the integration process (Mattli, 1999, p.123).
  • According to Silva (2011, pp.157-158), “for Colombians, in addition to Tabatinga, where there is a significant presence of them, another route of entry is Venezuela, via Boa Vista (RR), as is the case with the refugees”.

Citing secondary sources:

If you have read about the work of a particular author, but have not been able to see the actual work (the main source) directly, you will need to acknowledge it. This is known as a secondary reference. Use the phrase “cited in” and provide the page number on which the source cites this information, e.g.:

  • According to Garcia, “We do not want the country to be an island of prosperity in the midst of a world of wretched people. Yes, we should help them. This is a pragmatic view ”(cited by Dieguez, 2009).

Books:

Mandatory Elements (printed books)

  • Author: Last name using upper and lower case letters, followed by a comma;
  • Initials of the surname capitalized with a period after each one;
  • Year of publication (not printing or printing) in parentheses;
  • Full title in italics. Only the first word and proper names should be capitalized. Follow with a full stop (unless there is a caption);
  • Subtitle: There is a colon at the end of the full title. Only proper names should be written in capital letters. Followed by a period;
  • Edition: include only if it is not the first edition. Use the number followed by "ed". For example,4th ed.;
  • Place of publication: Indicate the city or the city and country, if there is possible confusion with the United Kingdom. Followed by a colon;
  • Publisher: publisher name followed by a period.

 

EXAMPLE:

  • Ribeiro, M. C. M. (2010) Globalização e Novos Atores: a paradiplomacia das cidades brasileiras. Salvador: Editora da UFBA.

 

Chapter of a published book:

  • Fonseca Jr, G. (1999) ‘Anotações sobre as condições do sistema internacional no limiar do século XIX: a distribuição dos polos de poder e a inserção internacional do Brasil’. In G. Dupas E T. Vigevani (eds.), O Brasil e as novas dimensões da segurança internacional. São Paulo: Alfa-Ômega/Fapesp, pp.17-42.

 

Journal articles:

Mandatory elements (printed journal articles)

Author(s), initials. (Year of publication) ‘Title of the article in single quotation marks’, Full title of the journal in italics, Volume number (edition/number in brackets), Page numbers, e.g.:

  • Haass, R. N. (2008). ‘The Age of Nonpolarity: What Will Follow U.S. Dominance?’, Foreign Affairs, 87(3), pp.44-56.

Online journal articles:

The same format as the previous item, plus the full URL where the article was accessed from and the date of the access, with the abbreviated month.

 

  • Dantas, A. T. (2013) ‘Comércio Externo do Brasil: o papel da América Latina e Caribe’, Mural Internacional, 4(2), pp. 48-54, [Online]. Available at: http://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/muralinternacional/article/view/8367 [Accessed on: 28 Jul. 2014]

 

Newspaper articles:

Mandatory elements (newspaper articles)

Author (if there is no author, use the newspaper's title in italics). (Year of publication) ‘Title of the article in single quotation marks’, Title of the newspaper in italics, date, Page reference, e.g.:

  • Celestino, H. (2014). ‘Sedução, a falta que ela faz’. O Globo, 05 October, p. 55.
  • Folha de São Paulo (2013). ‘América do Sul perde fatia nos investimentos externos do Brasil’, 03 August, Caderno Mercado 2, p.5.

 

Online sources :

Mandatory elements (websites)

Author/Organization (Year) website/page that was published or the last updated title of the Web/Internet page (if not already provided) in italics. Available at: URL [Accessed on XX Month Year], ex.:

  • Almeida, P. R. (2005). A ONU e a questão da assimetria de poder. Available at: http://www.pralmeida.org/05DocsPRA/1427ONUassimetria.pdf [Accessed on 02 December 2014)
  • European Commission (2014). Comunicado no final do encontro do Presidente da Comissão Europeia, José Manuel Durão Barroso, com a Presidente do Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, 18 of July. Available at: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-14-235_pt.htm [Accessed on: 04 December 2018]

Other academic publications

Mandatory elements (Theses/dissertations/monographs)

Name, author's initials. (Year of defense) Title. Degree (Ph.D. etc.). Educational institution.

  • Pitta, F. T. (2011). Modernização Retardatária e agroindústria sucroalcooleira paulista: o Proálcool como reprodução fictícia do capital em crise. Master's Thesis, Human Geography/Universidade de São Paulo.

ARTICLES

Mural Internacional publish original academic articles on International Relations themes. Articles can be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. All articles will be summited to a double-blind peer review by experts in the subject in question. Such a process guarantees the anonymity of both, the authors and the referees. Any suggestions and/or comments, including a new ordering of the text, will be previously discussed and approved by the author.

DOSSIER

Mural Internacional accepts proposals for thematic dossiers on specific issues of current International Relations that call for the publication of unpublished academic articles on the subject in question. Such dossiers are developed in a cooperative partnerships with national and international research groups and institutions. We invite all the interested to submit thematic dossier proposals through the journal's communication channels. Articles can be submitted in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, and everyone will be subjected to the double-blind peer review, any suggestions and/or comments, including a new ordering of the text, will be previously discussed and approved by the authors.

DOSSIÊ | DOSSIER Políticas Externas na América Latina

A Revista Mural Internacional abre a chamada para o envio de artigos inéditos para compor o dossiê “Políticas Externas na Região, desafios analíticos e oportunidades de pesquisa”; organizado por Anabella Busso (UNR), Miriam Saraiva (PPGRI-UERJ) e Lorena Granja Hernández (PPGRI-UERJ).

 

O prazo para a recepção de artigos vai até 30 de abril de 2022. Os/as interessados/as deverão enviar os artigos inéditos pelo portal da Revista Mural Internacional seguindo as diretrizes para autores/as na seção reservada especialmente ao dossiê (não no fluxo contínuo da revista). Os artigos seguirão o processo de revisão de pares cego conforme as políticas da Mural Internacional (disponíveis no site).

Os artigos podem ser enviados em espanhol, inglês ou português e a previsão da publicação do dossiê é para setembro de 2022.

Chamada e contextualização do dossiê “Políticas Externas na Região, desafios analíticos e oportunidades de pesquisa”:

 

A análise de política externa (APE) vem se consolidando como sub-área das Relações Internacionais já faz algum tempo. Nos últimos anos, tem aparecido análises inovadoras que colocam em xeque as tradicionais abordagens da disciplina que entendiam a política externa como uma política em essência de estado (com tendências constantes e poucas variações intergovernamentais).  Essas novas abordagens consolidam a visão da política externa como política pública, fruto dos interesses e jogos da política doméstica (na qual convergem interesses de vários atores, muitas vezes não coincidentes). Dessa forma, a amplitude das análises ganha complexidade e relevância nas agendas de pesquisa. Porém, ainda não há um olhar consensuado sobre as formas que epistemológica e ontologicamente deveria ser analisada a Política Externa. Além disso, também tem sido bastante díspar a trajetória que a sub-área tem tido em cada um dos países da América Latina. Sendo o caso do Brasil importante, também não devem ser negligenciadas as abordagens conceituais que têm sido desenvolvidas na Argentina, México, Colômbia e outros países da região para esse diálogo. Nesse sentido, haveria uma necessidade de conversas intra e inter disciplinares entre analistas de política externa da América Latina. Alguns esforços têm sido feitos em torno do desenvolvimento metodológico das análises de política externa comparada; sendo a maior parte delas comparações de países com interesses ou capacidades similares, ou estudos comparados de distintos períodos de tempo dentro de um (ou vários) países, atendendo às mudanças nos governos e seus objetivos de política externa. No entanto, ainda há espaços de intercâmbio entre os/as acadêmicos da região a serem ocupados para colocarmos a APE em foco, desenvolver suas principais características conceituais e empíricas e, eventualmente, alcançar maiores avanços desde o olhar intradisciplinar. Com esse intuito, a Mural Internacional organiza o dossiê denominado “Políticas Externas na Região, desafios analíticos e oportunidades de pesquisa” que procura brindar tal espaço para seguir com o processo reflexivo das políticas externas da região.

Os artigos esperados para compor o dossiê podem versar sobre estudos de caso das políticas externas de países latino-americanos e|ou caribenhos; estudos comparativos ou análises conceituais, mais ou menos empiricamente ilustrados. A ideia é abrir o debate para pensarmos em chave de diálogo na capacidade analítica que, enquanto região, temos de nosso próprio objeto de estudo, a política externa.

DOSSIÊ | DOSSIER Nacionalismos XXI

o dossiê temático Nacionalismos no Século XXI será organizado por Ana Paula Tostes (PPGRI-UERJ), Hugo Suppo (PPGRI-UERJ) e Daniele Conversi (Ikerbasque Foundation for Science e Departamento de Historia Contemporánea da Universidad del País Vasco).

Os artigos devem ser inéditos e podem ser enviados em português, inglês e espanhol, e todos serão submetidos à revisão cega por pares, qualquer sugestão e/ou comentário, incluindo novo ordenamento do texto, será previamente discutido e aprovado pelos autores.

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Nationalismos no século XXI

Ao contrário das previsões dos apologistas da Nova Ordem Mundial liberal, estabelecida no período pós-Guerra Fria, hoje estamos testemunhando um renascimento inesperado do tema da identidade e da política, bem como dos movimentos nacionalistas. Ao mesmo tempo que a globalização se aprofunda, temas como a questão nacional, discussões sobre identidade nacional, movimentos de libertação nacional, xenofobia e conflitos étnicos, raciais e nacionais tornaram-se algumas das grandes agendas das relações internacionais. Muitos são os exemplos de casos recentes, como a crise na Ucrânia - em que a União Europeia e a Rússia disputam a área de influência -, a guerra na Síria - cujo território é objeto de dissensões entre grandes potências -, o movimento autonomista na Catalunha e o surgimento de movimentos indígenas na América Latina. Além disso, os temas do nacionalismo e da identidade coletiva são transversais ao fortalecimento da nova extrema direita europeia e ao ressurgimento do populismo na política mundial. Nesse sentido, este dossiê visa reunir reflexões sobre as origens e possíveis consequências da emergência de reivindicações e disputas relacionadas às questões de identidade coletiva, à emergência de lideranças políticas explorando a identidade coletiva e diversos eventos recentes de conflitos nacionalistas, trazendo ao debates sobre as relações internacionais novos cenários e instabilidades.

DOSSIÊ | DOSSIER DDHH

o dossiê temático Direitos Humanos, neoliberalismo e autoritarismo: retrocessos e perspectivas contemporâneas no Brasil e no mundo será editado em parceria com Andrés del Rio (IEAR/UFF e INCT-PPED ) y Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes (FD-UFMG).

 

Os artigos devem ser inéditos e podem ser enviados em português, inglês e espanhol, e todos serão submetidos à revisão cega por pares, qualquer sugestão e/ou comentário, incluindo novo ordenamento do texto, será previamente discutido e aprovado pelos autores.

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Nas últimas décadas, os direitos humanos passaram por um processo de progressivo reconhecimento jurídico e político tanto no âmbito doméstico quanto internacional. Apesar disso, recentemente têm sido objeto de ataques sem precedentes, tanto no âmbito concreto quanto discursivo. Em diversos países, incluindo no Brasil, esse processo tem ocorrido em paralelo a um crescente autoritarismo refletido e corroborado pelos resultados das eleições para a chefia do Poder Executivo. O dossiê “Direitos Humanos, neoliberalismo e autoritarismo: retrocessos e perspectivas contemporâneas no Brasil e no mundo” pretende explorar de uma maneira crítica e construtiva esse fenômeno mapeando os retrocessos, investigando suas causas e apresentando perspectivas possíveis tanto a nível nacional como regional. Os trabalhos que compõem o dossiê são investigações teóricas e práticas sobre os desafios dos direitos humanos no contexto global atual incluindo reflexões sobre violações direitos de minorias políticas, acesso à terra, meio-ambiente, emprego de violência privada e estatal e desarticulação de mecanismos de bem social, bem como estratégias que vêm sendo empregadas para resistir a essas ofensivas. Fazem parte da discussão, a defesa e luta dos direitos humanos nos sistemas internacionais e regionais de direitos humanos, incluindo o âmbito das nações unidas, comissão e corte interamericana de direitos humanos.

DOSSIÊ | DOSSIER ABRI

A Mural Internacional aceita artigos acadêmicos inéditos sobre temas de Relações Internacionais. Os artigos podem ser enviados em português, espanhol ou inglês. Todos os artigos serão submetidos à revisão de dois consultores ad hoc e qualquer sugestão e/ou comentário, incluindo novo ordenamento do texto, será previamente discutido e aprovado pelo autor.

Mural Internacional accepts original academic manuscripts focused on International Relations issues.  Manuscripts may be sent in Portuguese, Spanish or English.  All manuscripts will be submitted to blind peer-review by two ad hoc referees and any eventual suggestion and/or comment, including copyediting, will be previously discussed and approved by the author.

BOOK REVIEWS

Mural Internacional accepts the publication of books reviews with an edition of up to two years old, the theme of the books should be focused on the International Relations studies object in a broad sense. They are evaluated by the editorial team. It is not necessary to have the consent of the author (s) of the books reviewed.

DOSSIÊ | DOSSIER Ordem Nuclear Internacional em Xeque

A Revista Mural Internacional abre a chamada para o envio de artigos inéditos para compor o dossiê "A ordem nuclear internacional em xeque", organizado pelos professores Eugenio Diniz (PUC-Minas) e Layla Dawood (PPGRI-UERJ).

O prazo para a recepção de artigos vai até 28 de fevereiro de 2023. 

Os/as interessados/as deverão enviar os artigos inéditos pelo portal da Revista Mural Internacional seguindo as diretrizes para autores/as no espaço reservado especialmente ao dossiê (não no fluxo contínuo da revista). 

Os artigos seguirão o processo de revisão de pares cego conforme as políticas da Mural Internacional (disponíveis no site).

Os artigos podem ser enviados em português, inglês ou espanhol, a previsão da publicação do Dossiê é para setembro de 2023.

DOSSIÊ | DOSSIER CULTURA RI

Dossier "The Cultural Dimension of International Relations":

Submission deadline: April 15, 2025

The cultural dimension in International Relations, although widely explored abroad, has long been underappreciated in Brazil. However, in recent years, we have observed a significant increase in interest in this area, reflected in numerous analyses on topics such as soft power, cultural diplomacy, and the influence of contemporary cultural manifestations, including pop music, books, films, soap operas, series, games, idols, fandoms, memes, among many others.

This growing interest has emerged both in academic publications and in educational spaces, with the creation of courses that address the interactions between culture and International Relations. Nevertheless, the curricula of higher education institutions in Brazil remain largely focused on traditional disciplines, leaving important gaps in the education of students regarding cultural dynamics.

In this context, this dossier seeks to comprehensively address the cultural dimension in International Relations, exploring its multiple facets and theoretical approaches. Our goal is to provide a platform for reflections that integrate different perspectives and broaden the understanding of the role of cultures, media, and technologies in shaping contemporary international relations.

The proposal is to foster diverse research, promoting the exchange of ideas and recognizing the various ways in which culture interacts with, reflects, and influences global politics. We invite contributions that explore the cultural dimension in its various manifestations, encouraging dialogue between different schools of thought and promoting a richer, multifaceted understanding of International Relations.

Organizers:
Paulo Menechelli (Center for Global Studies/UnB and LEMCRI-UERJ-UFRJ)
Pablo Victor Fontes (Department of International Relations/UERJ and LEMCRI/UERJ-UFRJ)

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