Testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission   Chairman Bartholomew, Commissioner Scissors, distinguished members of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, thank you for the opportunity to share my work and views with you today regarding China’s diplomatic and political approach in Latin America and the Caribbean. [ … ]

©2021 Global Americans For more than twenty years, successive Chilean governments, on both the right and the left, have sought to integrate their country, with its back to the Andes mountains, into the Pacific rim's flourishing economy. Chile has already tied itself to Asia and other parts of the world [ … ]

This article was originally published in the Military Review magazine, English edition (November-December 2019).   The title of this article is derived from the final “commandment” mandated by the self-appointed leaders of a group of revolutionist animals depicted in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, published in 1945. The allegory is a morality [ … ]

This report was made possible by general support to CSIS. No external funding contributed to this report.   The strategic environment of Latin America is in the early phases of a profound, negative transformation reflecting the combined effects of three of the most powerful global forces of our era: (1) [ … ]

Uruguay, like many countries in Latin America, has deepened its relationship with China in recent years. Unlike in neighboring countries, however, Uruguay’s strong institutions and interest in maintaining a relationship with the U.S. have tempered its newfound friendship with Beijing. Under the government of Luis Lacalle Pou, the country has [ … ]

Introduction When President Danilo Medina of the Dominican Republic announced in May 2018 that his government would recognize the People’s Republic of China (PRC), abandoning the Dominican Republic’s longstanding diplomatic commitment to Taiwan, alarm bells sounded in Washington, D.C. Panama had recognized the PRC only one year earlier, while El [ … ]

Abstract.  This paper examines Chinese commercial, political, and security engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean, comparing it with similar engagement in Europe.  It finds evidence that PRC engagement globally is driven by a strategy focused on re-orienting the world to the economic benefit of the PRC, with nonetheless important [ … ]

The scientific study to identify the new challenges to security forces and the most appropriate responses to each of them needs to start with a geopolitical analysis. The scenario reading needs to be forward-looking. In the last decade, Americans and Europeans have fought in the mountains of Afghanistan; Colombians and [ … ]