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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...

By Matthew Taylor April 6, 2021Foreign Policy

“The Organization”: Corruption and Business

This weekend I finished Malu Gaspar’s definitive history of the Odebrecht case (A Organização: A Odebrecht e o esquema de corrupção que chocou o mundo; Companhia das Letras 2020). While not an academic book, it offers an insightful and page-turning perspective on the evolution of business-state relations in Brazil over...

By Matthew Taylor March 16, 2021Economics, Judiciary, Politics

Institutional Judiciary Politics

Democratic institutions under stress

All of our very good intentions regarding a very tall reading stack of Brazil-related research were derailed by the pandemic. Among the many interesting pieces in that stack, however, a few recent articles on the stresses being faced by Brazilian democratic institutions drew the blog's attention as we seek to...

By Matthew Taylor March 2, 2021Institutional, Judiciary, Politics

Economics Politics

Book discussion: Decadent Developmentalism

I had the pleasure of presenting my new book on the political economy of democratic Brazil at the Wilson Center this week, moderated by the Brazil Institute's Anya Prusa, with insightful commentary by Professor Leslie Elliott Armijo and the Economist's São Paulo correspondent, Sarah Maslin. Full video available here.

By Matthew Taylor February 25, 2021Economics, Politics

Politics

Event: Legislative Effectiveness Workshop (Nov. 16)

You are invited to join the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies for part two of the Legislative Effectiveness in Latin America workshop series on November 16, 2020, from 1:30 – 3:00 pm EST. The event will compare legislative processes in the United States with those found in Latin...

By CLALS Staff November 9, 2020Politics