Correa and Assange: A Peculiar Relationship
What are the key determinants of Ecuadorian President Correa’s ongoing support for WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange?
Latin America
Staging the War on Drugs: Media and Organised Crime in Mexico
This Working Paper offers an insight to understand the political ramifications of the news coverage of violence in Mexico. It shows that drug trafficking organisations have important goals related to the media, the impact of news on public opinion and the consequent influence over policy making.
Ecuador’s Energy Policy Mix: Development, Conservation and Nationalism with Chinese Loans (ARI)
Ecuador’s energy policy faces a complex variety of political and economic objectives that are difficult to reconcile in a consistent manner.
Aid to Haiti: Reconstruction Amidst Political Uncertainty (ARI)
Following the 20 March 2011 elections, Haiti faces a potential political stalemate whilst confronting the massive reconstruction needs created by last year’s earthquake.
Latin America: Economic and Political Outlook for 2011 (ARI)
Latin America's economic and political outlook for 2011 is favourable. Growth and political stability appear to be guaranteed, although there are some risks on the horizon.
China-Spain-Latin America Triangulation in a Chinese Perspective (ARI)
This paper looks at the prospects for triangulation between China, Spain and Latin America in the wake of the Sinopec-Repsol deal in Brazil.
Brazilian Cooperation: a model under construction for an emerging power (ARI)
The media, analysts and markets have focused a great deal of attention on the consolidation of Brazil as an emerging power, mainly in the economic and global governance spheres. However, there is little information and few studies on cooperation as an instrument of Brazilian foreign policy or on Brazil’s role in the new architecture of aid, despite its increasing presence in Africa and its leading role in debates on international development.
The Cuban Monetary and Financial Jigsaw Puzzle (ARI)
The 2008-09 balance of payments crisis and a succession of errors in economic policies have resulted in new monetary and financial complications in the Cuban economy, to be added to the costs and distortions of currency duality.
Tourism Development and Regional Integration in Central America (ARI)
What is the relationship between tourism and regional integration in Central America?
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