AUGUST 18, 2022 Oliver Stuenkel on the consolidation of a wave of leftist and left-leaning leaders in the region There is an unmistakable trend in...
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BY OLIVER STUENKEL JULY 18, 2022 Today’s leftist leaders face much tougher challenges than did their predecessors. SA͂O PAULO — Gustavo Petro’s...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL JUNE 2, 2022 A second “pink tide” would create greater opportunities for dialogue. But structural obstacles...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL MAY 10, 2022 Recent history shows that authoritarian-leaning leaders become much more aggressive after winning reelection...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL MARCH 22, 2022 The former president’s choice of a conservative running mate carries numerous benefits – but also conspicuous risks...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL FEBRUARY 17, 2022 The gathering in Los Angeles could boost regional cooperation, if certain traps can be avoided. SÃO PAULO...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL JANUARY 6, 2022 Amid fears Bolsonaro may try to prevent a peaceful transition, generals emerge as key power brokers. For...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL DECEMBER 7, 2021 Debates should focus on home-grown threats to democracy such as inequality, fake news and the...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL NOVEMBER 4, 2021 Five reasons a “third way” candidate will struggle to break through in a polarized contest. SÃO PAULO – After a...
Photo by Andre Borges/picture alliance BY OLIVER STUENKEL SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 Brazil’s president is too weak to stage a coup, but strong...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL AUGUST 10, 2021 SÃO PAULO – I was in for a surprise when I asked politically engaged university students and young political...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL JULY 1, 2021 Facing a new corruption scandal, the embattled president may be willing to restart dialogue on deforestation. SÃO...
Photographer: Andressa Anholete/Bloomberg BY OLIVER STUENKEL APRIL 27, 2021 The inquiry probably won’t bring down the president, but it has the...
Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images) As center-left leaders in Europe and the U.S. prioritize the fight against climate change, the same cannot...
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 04: IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank Group President David Malpass. (Photo by...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL | DECEMBER 2, 2020 Bolsonaro looks beatable in 2022 if Brazil’s opposition manages to overcome its internal divisions...
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Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel is a political analyst, speaker and a Professor at the School of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo. He is also a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, a non-resident Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, and a columnist for Estado de São Paulo and Americas Quarterly. His research focuses on geopolitics and global order, Brazilian foreign policy, Latin American politics and emerging powers. He is the author of several books about geopolitics, including The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (Lexington) and the Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order (Polity).BOOK: POST-WESTERN WORLD
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