On Wednesday I’ll participate in a debate about Brazil’s growing role in Africa at the 7th International Turkish – African...
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This highly informative collection of essays edited by Emma Mawdsley and Gerard McCann provides the reader with an excellent overview of...
“Brazil fears massive entry of immigrants” wrote Brazil’s O Globo, a daily from Rio de Janeiro, in today’s edition. In...
Global Times | January 09, 2012 21:23 By Xu Ming Last year was a big one for the BRIC group of developing nations, Brazil, Russia, India, and China...
Book review: Temptations of the West: How to be modern in India, Pakistan and beyond. By Pankaj Mishra. Picador, 2011. 452 pages. R$ 24,63...
Western nations, and the United States in particular, are proud of the global order they have created after World War II. Rightly so: for the...
Book review. Theories of International Relations and Zombies. By Daniel W. Drezner. Princeton University Press, 2011. (U$ 9.01, www.amazon.com) In...
Book review: “Can the Elephant Dance?” by David M. Malone. Oxford University Press (2002). 448 pages, U$ 32.95 (Paperback, amazon.com)...
Cartoon: Benett, Folha de São Paulo As a report earlier this week by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR)...
1. How immigration will change Brazil (April 10) As we’re stuck in traffic on Avenida Paulista, São Paulo’s most famous boulevard, the...
Book review: The New Brazil. By Riordan Roett. Brookings Institutions Press, 2011. 178 pages. $19.79 (kindle, amazon.com) In this concise and very...
10. Is Central America doomed? After Mexico’s President Calderon’s crackdown against drug trafficking, resulting in unprecedented...
Prior to a recent meeting of Latin American policy makers and academics in Rio de Janeiro, I asked a participant from Ecuador whether he’d...
Por Oliver Stuenkel* Com os Estados Unidos e a Europa enfrentando suas profundas dificuldades financeiras, o declínio do Ocidente e a ‘ascensão do...
Yesterday a group of researchers from the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), a large publicly financed think...
Last Friday I visited the Mercosur Secretariat in Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital, where I met with several of its permanent staff to speak about...