The Real Impact of Maduro’s Guyana Referendum SÃO PAULO — “There’s one thing South America does not need right now: trouble,” replied Brazil’s...
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Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula, has long sought to position Latin America’s largest country as an important actor...
CHRISTOPHER S. CHIVVIS, OLIVER STUENKEL, BEATRIX GEAGHAN‑BREINER NOVEMBER 22, 2023 In recent years, Buenos Aires has sought stronger ties with...
Javier Milei’s Next Challenge: Governing Argentina The messianic president-elect may struggle to implement many of his most radical ideas. By Oliver...
NOVEMBER 16, 2023 COMMENTARY On Sunday, Argentine voters will elect their next president in a runoff campaign that has been the most divisive in...
The Israel-Hamas War Is Inflaming Polarization in Latin America BY OLIVER STUENKEL NOVEMBER 16, 2023 The region’s leaders have been far more critical...
Why the Global South Is Accusing America of Hypocrisy By Oliver Stuenkel The war between Israel and Hamas is bad news for Ukraine. The conflict has...
Republican Threats on Mexico Could Carry a Huge Cost BY OLIVER STUENKEL SEPTEMBER 28, 2023 Even if it’s just rhetoric, Republican candidates’...
BRICS Invitation Puts Argentina in a Tough Spot When leaders of the BRICS grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa announced at...
In August, Ecuador’s presidential election captured international headlines after the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio...
Tensions within the group continue to simmer, but it is here to stay Aug 18th 2023 Since its transformation from an investment category into a...
Latin America’s largest nation seems to have digested its armed insurgency better than the U.S. did. Brazil’s political risk plummets...
Brazil’s Economic Uptick Is Boosting Lula’s Foreign Policy SÃO PAULO—During the first months of his third presidential term, Lula’s domestic...
BRICS Faces a Reckoning Enlargement would be a sign not of the group’s strength, but of China’s growing influence. By Oliver Stuenkel, an associate...
OLIVER STUENKEL JUNE 22, 2023 COMMENTARY Reviewing the strategies of populists with authoritarian tendencies, political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller...
Theme After widespread relief in capitals around the world about Bolsonaro’s failed re-election bid in October 2022, Lula has normalised Brazil’s...
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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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