The rush to begin deep-sea mining is unjustified and dangerous. Many of the areas targeted for mining are virtually unexplored, and the consequences of ...
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The Dangers of Deep-Sea Mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone
Sophia Marencik and David E. Guggenheim | 
Muerte Cruzada and Ecuadorian Democracy
John Polga-Hecimovich | 
Despite its novelty, the act did not plunge the country into crisis as some critics warned, nor did it mark a death knell for Ecuadorian democracy, as ...
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Decarbonize, Diversify, and Depolarize
Carlos Alvarado-Quesada | 
Climate change and the global energy transition place Latin America and the Caribbean at a crossroads: it can either take a leap forward to become a more ...
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The Greatest Challenges the Americas Face
The Global Americans International Advisory Council | 
The region faces the ever-growing threat of climate change, persistent inequality, the destructive middle-income trap, growing disillusionment with ...
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June Marks the Beginning of Atlantic Hurricane Season—So, How Can the Caribbean Bolster its Resilience?
Jackson Mihm and Alejandro Trenchi | 
With or without climate change, extreme weather events will exist and regrettably affect people in the Caribbean and worldwide. However, as global average ...
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Curaçao’s Population Crisis
Alex Rosaria | 
Curaçao has to make it more attractive for people to have children by reducing the opportunity costs of getting married and raising kids.
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Peru and Ecuador: Cases of Risky Institutional Designs
Flavio Darío Espinal | 
Following Latin America’s democratic transitions in the 1980s, confrontations between legislative and executive branches controlled by opposing political ...
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International Cybersecurity Cooperation Looks Great on Paper, but Needs Work on Implementation
Randy Pestana and Leland Lazarus | 
Cyber policymakers in the United States can take several steps to improve international cyber training coordination.
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The United Nations and Haiti
Flavio Darío Espinal | 
It seems evident that these UN missions and other initiatives to support Haiti have lacked a vision of state-building as a basic premise to articulate ...
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