Brazil’s Polarization Is Here to Stay Even As Politicians Have (Mostly) Dialed Down the Rhetoric The political debate in Latin America’s...
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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...
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...
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...
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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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