David Albuquerque

David Albuquerque is a senior year political science PhD Candidate at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE - Brazil), also holding a MA in political science and a BA in law from the same University. His current research is funded by the CNPQ (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development), under the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Capes Foundation (Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel), a federal government agency under the Ministry of Education.

Concerning his research, he investigates Brazilian foreign policy in Africa in his thesis, through the relationship between African non-Portuguese speaking countries and African Portuguese speaking countries (PALOP) focusing on the diffusion of Brazilian cooperation projects on the continent. For that purpose, he uses a mixed-method approach, trying to cross the qual-quanti divide. He is under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marcos Costa Lima. In his Master's research, he reviewed the determinants in Brazil-Africa South-South Cooperation between 2003 and 2010 through the Qualitative Comparative Analysis Method (FsQCA).

He is also an African Studies Institute member at the Federal University of Pernambuco (IEAf-UFPE), and a Research Center for Regional and Development Studies member (D&R-UFPE). His main interests are Brazilian Foreign Policy, South-South Cooperation, and Political Economy. 

He will be visiting LAC for Michaelmas and Hilary terms in 2021 and 2022, under the supervision of Dr. Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos