Category South America
Restoring Democracy: Lessons from Bolivia since the 2019 Coupvolution
The Pitfalls of All-the-above Environmental Policy: Analyzing the Role of Right-Wing and Left-Wing Populism in Recent Brazil and U.S. Politics
A Holistic Approach Towards International Counternarcotics Cooperation
Lula and Bolsonaro, A World Apart on the World Stage
A Development Journey: Non-stop from the Northern Triangle of Central America to Denmark?
Can the Government Police Itself? Colombia’s False Positives Scandal and its Lessons for Atrocity Prevention
Coming to Terms with Reality: How Could the European Union Most Effectively Support Venezuela’s Democratization?
Chile 2010-2020: The Contentious Decade
If contention describes a state of sustained, massive protest combining peaceful, disruptive, and violent tactics, then the decade of the 2010s may be considered the most contentious in Chile’s history.[1] The decade’s contentious dynamics seem more spectacular and unpredictable considering Chilean…
Operation Mercury and Illegal Mining in Latin America
The Governance Competition in the Americas: “Criminal Charity” During COVID-19 Will Have Decade-long Consequences
Latin America’s criminal groups have leveraged the coronavirus pandemic to win the goodwill and support of local populations by delivering humanitarian assistance and co-opting public service provision in communities underserved by state institutions. Such levels of “criminal charity” could complicate the future efforts of Latin America’s weakest states to dismantle and defeat organized crime groups, whose power has grown in recent years.
Three to Tango: Argentina, IMF, and Debt
An examination of Argentina’s current political economy reveals that many structural vulnerabilities persist to this day. Will the current IMF program work?