The risky business of environmental activism in Latin America
Despite relatively better human rights records and environmental protection policies, Latin America and the Caribbean lead the world in murders of environmental activists. Why?
Despite relatively better human rights records and environmental protection policies, Latin America and the Caribbean lead the world in murders of environmental activists. Why?
Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the BRICs) were first grouped together in 2001 as the countries most likely to produce rapid economic growth (South Africa joined in 2010). Today another phenomenon binds the BRICS together: corruption scandals that have hit state-funded infrastructure companies and the projects they’ve overseen.
Civil society organizations thrive in healthy democracies, but their role as watchdogs of governments and “gap-fillers” providing where the government is absent, tends to make those in power uncomfortable. In the following piece, we explore how Latin America fares compared to other countries in terms of barriers to civil society.
Richard Millet, Jennifer Holmes and Orlando Perez, eds. Latin American Democracy: Emerging Reality or Endangered Species? 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2015. This volume provides an in depth
Jorge Dominguez and Rafael Fernandez de Castro, eds. Contemporary US-Latin American Relations: Cooperation or Conflict in the 21 Century?, 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2016. This work
Malamud, Andrés, (2011) “La política externa de Dilma Rousseff: ¿menos de lo mismo?” One month before Dilma Rousseff’s presidential inauguration, the author predicted her foreign
Schenoni, Luis, and Carlos Escudé (2016) “Peripheral Realism Revisited” The authors empirically test one of the few native Latin American theories of international relations.
In this post, we summarize the recent book La Argentina y el mundo: claves para una integración exitosa, an effort to re-conceptualize Argentina’s national interest and its place in the world.
The Zika virus has raised the issue of abortion in Latin America, where a number of countries such as El Salvador, Nicaragua and Chile restrict the right to terminate a pregnancy in all cases. Will Zika change the debate and policies on a woman’s right to choose in the Americas?
Whatever happens with the Brexit, it’s still worth considering some of its effects on the Western Hemisphere beyond the generalities. Among them: EU market access for Caribbean Commonwealth countries, trade deals for disaffected Mercosur members, and the Falklands/Malvinas.