Cartoon: Benett, Folha de São Paulo As a report earlier this week by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR)...
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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...
This week the New York Times published the results of a poll in which it asked hundreds of chief executives and chairmen to select the top...
In his recent column in the Financial Times, entitled “A Story of Brics without mortar”, Philip Stephens writes that it is “time to...
Rótulo é êxito de marketing para O’Neill e para o Brasil. Oliver Stuenkel conversa com Nelson de Sá, articulista da Folha de S. Paulo...
One of the recurring themes in the international debate this year has been that around humanitarian intervention – fueled by the Arab Spring...
One of the key features of the end of the “American Era” will be the rise of regional powers that seek to expand their respective spheres...
Turkey may not be part of the BRICS, but it is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important and promising emerging powers. The...
Russia matters, yet Brazil’s international relations scholars know preciously little about the ‘R’ in the BRICS. Prof. Alexander...
India’s rise constitutes one of the most fascinating and important stories of the past two decades, symbolizing, along with China, the fundamental...