Scientific Publications

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 […]

The Prince is a founding political text of modernity. Its dissemination was so controversial that it is quite difficult to have an exact notion of Machiavelli’s own ideas regarding the purposes of his work. Created from the repercussions of the Florentine thinker’s text, the concept […]

Land conflicts in western Amazonia have increased considerably in recent years – especially in states such as Rondônia, where the country’s highest number of deaths occur in Brazil. To understand the historical-normative scenario of the problem, we will analyze the performance of the institutions of […]