Rafael R. Ioris is Professor of Latin American History and Politics at the University of Denver. He is an associate professor at the Institute of Public Policy and the School of International Studies at the same university and an associate researcher at the Washington Brazil Office, the Institute of Studies on the United States in Brazil and the Cold War Study Group at the University of São Paulo. He is the author of books, book chapters and numerous articles in Brazilian and international periodicals dealing with the history of themes linked to the Brazilian and Latin American development process, Brazilian foreign policy and Brazil-USA relations over time. He is currently working on the production of a new book dealing with cooperative relations between Brazil and the United States and Brazil's emergence in the world during the Cold War period. He is a frequent author of articles and columns in newspapers and magazines in Brazil and the USA.