Scientific Publications

In the last two decades imprisonment and violence have grown sharply in the states of the Brazilian Western Amazon, comprising Rondônia, Acre, Amazonas, and Roraima. This article aims to analyze the increase in those numbers between 2005 and 2017. The research uses statistical data analysis […]

The work analyzes the forms of colonization of the city of Porto Velho, the use of the emphyteusis institute (by those who we call foreiros), the violation of the human right to decent housing and proposes a form of procedural defense that privileges the social […]

Abstract: Traditional human rights theories – normative and substantive theories – establish general criteria for moral values to be normatively universalized, as well as the reasons for imposing obligations for compliance. In recent decades, however, philosophers and legal theorists, concerned with the global realism of […]

The idea of human rights has become gradually in the twentieth century the primary normative discourse of international relations. Born out of well-defined practical requirements, the vast legal set of human rights norms was constructed, however, by complex agreements that concealed fundamental theoretical contradictions. In […]

In the intellectual scene of the Italian Renaissance, the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli preceded and influenced great innovations that founded modernity. A general movement of ideas defined in the 16th and 17th centuries by the concept of Machiavellianism engendered profound changes in the conceptual […]