Challenges to Emerging and Established Powers: Brazil, the United Kingdom and Global Order

Marco Vieira is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published in leading journals such as Review of International Studies, Third World Quarterly, Environmental Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis and Global Governance. He is the co-author of The South in World Politics (2010).

Jonathan Grix is a Reader in Sport Policy and Politics in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences and Director of the Sport Policy Centre at the University of Birmingham, UK. His latest books include Sport under Communism. Behind the East German "Miracle" (co-authored with Mike Dennis) (2012); Understanding UK Sport Policy in Context (co-edited with Lesley Phillpots), 2014) and Sport Politics: An Introduction (2016).