The researchers in this area have been making an important contribution to the dissemination of debates around the various authoritarian experiences and political and social violence that marked the history of the 20th century. In this sense, the research aims to theoretically examine concepts such as "violence" and "state," as well as "authoritarianism" and "totalitarianism," "dictatorships," "resistances," "terror," "war," and "revolution," all of which are essential for understanding the historical experience of the last century. Finally, the work being developed here seeks to consider the plurality of social experiences and manifestations in dialogue with these concepts.

With references from renewed political history and cultural history, this line of research aims to assess the complex interactions between intellectuals, whose concept is problematized, and political power in the construction of economic, social, and political modernization processes. The theoretical-methodological debate of the categories of State and Modernity/Modernization is also undertaken within this research area. Additionally, the goal is to understand the cultural interactions and re-significations carried out by different social groups within nation-states. The notions of transnational history and postcolonialism become prominent reflections for the study of these multicultural relations, which involve disputes, conflicts, and negotiations.

It aims to consider the national liberation movements in Asia and Africa post-1945. It is theoretically inspired by postcolonial debates that envision overcoming the colonized/colonizer binary. It proposes reconsidering native nationalist movements through the updated notion of difference (Derrida). In this perspective, the research focuses less on thinking of the metropolis as an entirely separate entity from the colony, and more on noting the porosity of borders, processes of transculturation, political discourses, and the various forgotten or subjugated narratives.

It seeks to understand the implications of the social character of history writing, examining the various possibilities for narrative articulation in texts, the criteria and assumptions that support historiographical production. It analyzes the meaning of historicity—the experience of time—and, with special emphasis, the issue of the tension within the modern concept of history, considering the reflection on the place of historical work in the contemporary world, specifically the debate on the historian’s responsibility, ethics, and testimony.