Discussing Legislative Effectiveness with Rodrigo Maia
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Discussing Legislative Effectiveness with Rodrigo Maia

CLALS Research Fellow Beatriz Rey recently discussed the issue of legislative effectiveness in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies with former speaker Rodrigo Maia. In the conversation, Rey and Maia delve into the conditions that foster bill sponsors' and rapporteurs' ability to move their agenda items through the legislative process and into...
April 27, 2021Posted inPolitics
Don’t Count on the Amazon
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Don’t Count on the Amazon

Can the international community rely on carbon sequestration in the Amazon as a strategy for halting global warming? Don’t count on it, even after Jair Bolsonaro’s grudging green conversion this past week.  Convincing Bolsonaro to change his tune must have been no small task, judging by the ratcheting up of...
April 23, 2021Posted inEnvironment, Foreign Policy, Judiciary2 Comments
Confronting Latin America’s Diplomatic Decline
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Confronting Latin America’s Diplomatic Decline

In a pair of stimulating recent articles in Foreign Policy and Nueva Sociedad, Andrés Malamud and Luis Schenoni discuss the declining relevance of the Latin American region to geopolitics.  Given their focus on regional trends, the articles are understandably low on specifics about particular countries and specific foreign policy choices. But the Nueva Sociedad article...
April 6, 2021Posted inForeign Policy