The New and Not-So-New Foreign Policies in the Americas

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Sabatini
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Global South ◽  
Individual Country ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
The Caribbean

Calculations of national interest and foreign policies are shifting in Latin America and the Caribbean. Those changes stem from the rise of the Global South, the perceived decline of U.S. power, and the proliferation of multiple connections and relations, including new regional multilateral groups. Those variables, however, are shaped by individual country legacies and a regional reflex toward national sovereignty and solidarity. This newfound diplomatic muscularity will shrink as the region’s and China’s economies cool, but the sense of independence and the region’s contestation of U.S. policies will continue.

scholarly journals Bright and Blind Spots of Water Research in Latin America and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa J. DeVincentis ◽  
Hervé Guillon ◽  
Romina Díaz Gómez ◽  
Noelle K. Patterson ◽  
Francine van den Brandeler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Bright Spot ◽  
Entire Region ◽  
Individual Country ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Multilingual Research ◽  
Funding Cuts ◽  
Blind Spots

Abstract. Water resources management is threatened by climatic, economic, and political pressures, and these challenges are on particular display in Latin America and the Caribbean. To assess the region's ability to manage water resources, we conducted an unprecedented literature review of over 20,000 multilingual research articles using machine learning and an understanding of the socio-hydrologic landscape. Results reveal that the region's vulnerability to water-related stresses, and drivers such as climate change, is compounded by research blind spots in niche topics (reservoirs and risk assessment) and sub-regions (Caribbean nations), and by its reliance on an individual country (Brazil). A regional bright spot, Brazil produces well-rounded water-related research but its regional dominance suggests that funding cuts there would impede scientifically-informed water management in the entire region.

scholarly journals Bright and blind spots of water research in Latin America and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 4631-4650
Author(s):  
Alyssa J. DeVincentis ◽  
Hervé Guillon ◽  
Romina Díaz Gómez ◽  
Noelle K. Patterson ◽  
Francine van den Brandeler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Bright Spot ◽  
Entire Region ◽  
Individual Country ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Multilingual Research ◽  
Funding Cuts ◽  
Blind Spots

Abstract. Water resources management in Latin America and the Caribbean is particularly threatened by climatic, economic, and political pressures. To assess the region's ability to manage water resources, we conducted an unprecedented literature review of over 20 000 multilingual research articles using machine learning and an understanding of the socio-hydrologic landscape. Results reveal that the region's vulnerability to water-related stresses, and drivers such as climate change, is compounded by research blind spots in niche topics (reservoirs and risk assessment) and subregions (Caribbean nations), as well as by its reliance on an individual country (Brazil). A regional bright spot, Brazil, produces well-rounded water-related research, but its regional dominance suggests that funding cuts there would impede scientifically informed water management in the entire region.

Subregional Powers of Latin America: Colombia and Venezuela

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Morales Ruvalcaba
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
International System ◽  
South American ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
The Caribbean

Subregional powers have been characterized as states that despite being structurally and hierarchically below other powers, have enough capacities to project themselves in geopolitical and geoeconomic terms in specific subregions and to promote cooperation and governance dynamics in these areas. Colombia and Venezuela can be analyzed and compared through this new category of powers in order to gain a better understanding of the specificity of their roles in the international system, as well as their foreign policies toward the Caribbean, Mesoamerican/Bolivarian, and South American subregions.

scholarly journals Universal Social Pensions Are Unaffordable … Not! Testing the Unaffordability Hypothesis in Latin America and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gibran Cruz-Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
External Debt ◽  
Global South ◽  
Military Expenditure ◽  
Energy Subsidies ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Deserving Poor ◽  
The Caribbean

Is universal social assistance unaffordable? Targeting social policy has been praised as a magic solution to select the ‘deserving poor’ and efficiently use the scarce resources in the Global South. The article tests the unaffordability hypothesis using five counterfactual analyses based on expenditure redirection (military expenditure, energy subsidies, and the potential illegal/odious external debt servicing) and increasing tax revenues (income and trade tax) in up to thirty-three countries. The article shows the revenue-generating potential of taxes and reprioritising expenditures from unproductive to productive areas to finance – totally or partly- basic universal social pensions in large part of Latin America and the Caribbean; therefore, dispelling the unaffordability myth.

Global South Youth Studies, Its Forms and Differences among the South, and between the North and South

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarence M. Batan ◽  
Adam Cooper ◽  
James E. Côté ◽  
Alan France ◽  
Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Global South ◽  
The South ◽  
Youth Studies ◽  
The North ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Localized Knowledge ◽  
North And South

This essay comprises reflections of scholars in and originating from the Global South, plus some comments from Northern scholars, forming an integrated dialogue. It focuses on the development of youth studies in Africa, Latin America, parts of Asia, and the Caribbean, illuminating how youth studies in, from, and for the South emerge as a result of struggle—to get recognition, to theorize beyond dominant Northern frameworks, and state-led developments, and to be heard. Paradoxically, youth studies from the South are strongly influenced by the work of Northern scholars. Despite these influences, Northern ideas struggle to grasp local contexts and conditions and consequently there is a need for more localized knowledge and theorizing to make sense of young people’s lives outside the Global North. The reflections provide a reminder that struggles over the meaning and situation of youth, within particular contexts, are highly political.

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