Bridges to nowhere: Corruption in the BRICS

Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the BRICs) were first grouped together in 2001 as the countries most likely to produce rapid economic growth (South Africa joined in 2010). Today another phenomenon binds the BRICS together: corruption scandals that have hit state-funded infrastructure companies and the projects they’ve overseen.

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The burdens placed on civil society in Latin America

Civil society organizations thrive in healthy democracies, but their role as watchdogs of governments and “gap-fillers” providing where the government is absent, tends to make those in power uncomfortable. In the following piece, we explore how Latin America fares compared to other countries in terms of barriers to civil society.

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Peripheral Realism Revisited

Schenoni, Luis, and Carlos Escudé (2016) “Peripheral Realism Revisited”  The authors empirically test one of the few native Latin American theories of international relations.

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