Why Electoral Violence Starts—and How It Can End As Americans prepare to vote in a tense presidential contest, these countries show a way out of...
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BRICS is emerging as a sandbox for experimentation with various non-USD instruments, including payment systems, cryptocurrencies, digitalized...
The 16th BRICS Summit, which took place in the Russian city of Kazan, proved to be a symbolic diplomatic victory for Vladimir Putin. It showcased...
By Oliver Stuenkel October 21, 2024 The bloc’s expansion is amplifying its anti-Western tendencies, creating strategic risks for Brazil. Since Brazil...
As president, his aggressive stance toward the region led many countries to warm to China. Trump Has His Own Monroe Doctrine Ahead of November’s U.S...
Why the Future of the Bloc Will Shape Global Order By Alexander Gabuev and Oliver Stuenkel September 24, 2024 In late October, the group of countries...
The president has dug in and is waiting for global attention to move elsewhere Global leaders have reacted in three different ways to the overtly...
Lula’s policy is an attempt to exert influence over Brazil’s neighbor, but the recent past suggests this may have limited effect. In the aftermath of...
As expected, Claudia Sheinbaum decisively won Mexico’s presidential single-round election on Sunday and will take office on October 1. Sheinbaum—a...
Why Lula Is Silent on Haiti Brazil’s earlier intervention not only failed to secure the Caribbean nation—it is also linked to Bolsonaro’s...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL MARCH 27, 2024 Brazil’s president has restored his country’s international reputation, but his provocative gestures are bedeviling...
Brazil’s Polarization Is Here to Stay Even As Politicians Have (Mostly) Dialed Down the Rhetoric The political debate in Latin America’s...
How U.S. Pressure Helped Save Brazil’s Democracy Mounting evidence suggests Biden kept pro-Bolsonaro generals from executing a coup By Oliver...
Defying a constitutional ban on serving consecutive terms, President Nayib Bukele is set to win Sunday’s vote in a landslide El Salvador and its 6.3...
BY OLIVER STUENKEL JANUARY 8, 2024 Despite mediocre growth, political risk is declining and cautious optimism is increasingly warranted. Latin...
Where Europe-South America Relations Go From Here By abandoning the EU-Mercosur deal, both continents missed a historic opportunity to adapt to a...
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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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