Bouchard presented "Solidarity or Revolt? Brazil and South-South Cooperation Under Rousseff, Bolsonaro, and Lula" at the Rethinking International Relations in an Age of Uncertainty conference in Hong Kong. The paper is a qualitative and quantitative comparative analysis of three presidents' commitment to South-South Cooperation, operationalized through annual UNGA speeches and signed international agreements. The paper finds that commitment SSC can vary at a sub-national level, and that a leader's level of commitment to South-South Cooperation is based on their own political and foreign policy goals, rather than a grand strategic philosophy. It was the conference's first edition. He presented on a panel about international relations in emergent powers. The paper will be published in the first edition of the peer-reviewed Hong Kong Review of Belt and Road Studies. 

Bouchard also presented "State of Death: Political Pressures and Police Lethality in Bahia, Brazil" at the national-level Symposium on International Relations, the most important conference on comparative politics and international relations in Brazil. It is organized by the top faculties of political science and international relations in Brazil, including the State University of São Paulo, UNICAMP, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. The paper was an adaptation of one chapter of his master's thesis, where he explained, through quantitative and qualitative methodological analysis and an overarching incentives theory, why police lethality has more than quadrupled in Bahia in the last 2 decades, while the state has been led by a progressive government, homicide rates have stagnated, and incarceration rates are low. Bouchard presented on a panel about violence, resistance and punishment.