NEW BOOK on States of the South Atlantic: Mônica Dias Martins, ed., Defesa dos povos do Atlântico Sul/The defense of the South Atlantic peoples (Fortaleza, Ceará: Editora da Universidade Estadual do Ceará, 2017), 239pp., ISBN: 978-85-7826-520-5, R$40.00 (This title, Defesa dos povos do Atlântico Sul, is the outcome of a 2-year research by scholars at the Observatório das Nacionalidades, the influential think tank based in Fortaleza, Brazil, that studies nations, nationalities, and states. There are three parts in the book including critical profiles on eight states of the region – Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Guiné-Bissau, Nigeria, Sierra Leone. The book is edited by Mônica Dias Martins, director of Observatório das Nacionalidades and distinguished professor of social sciences at Universidade Estadual do Ceará)

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