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Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered
Episode: The military and Democracy with João Roberto Martins Filho
Description: João Roberto Martins Filho is professor emeritus of Political Science at the Federal University of São Carlos with a doctorate in Social Science from the State University of Campinas. He is the author of many classical works, including an English translation of "The Student movement and the military dictatorship" (1987), "The Palace and the Barracks"(1995; 2nd edition, 2019), "The Brazilian Navy in the Age of Battleships - 1895-1910" (2010) and "State Secrets: the British Government and Torture in Brazil" (2018; 2nd edition 2020). He was the president of the Brazilian Defense Studies Association from 2006 to 2008 and has had postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA (University of...