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Donald Trump

Trump and the decline of the West

Leonardo Stanley
Trump’s second term pushes oil over climate action, pressuring nations and risking the West’s decline while China advances the green transition.
Economy
Climate change financing in times of denialism
Climate change
The role of international law in the fight against climate change
Culture

Every person with talent is an act of collective care

Bernardo Cañizares
The closure of Ecuador’s Ministry of Culture reveals its weak role, political misuse, and failure to act as a pillar of collective care for talent.
Climate change

From private benefit to collective cost: the exploitation of common resources in Latin America

David Castells-Quintana
Climate change exposes Latin America’s tragedy of the commons. Inequality, weak institutions, and global cooperation define the region’s future.
Human rights

The challenges of the UN Women, Peace and Security agenda on its 25th anniversary

Manuela Mesa
UN Resolution 1325 transformed the view of women in conflicts, from passive victims to key actors in peacebuilding. However, its impact remains limited in everyday life.
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Biodiversity

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The region’s potential to lead the transition to a sustainable blue economy

Larisse Faroni-Perez
With strong governance and public-private partnerships, Latin America and the Caribbean has the potential to lead the transition to a sustainable blue economy.

Biodiversity and Health: Thinking Broadly and Working Efficiently

Liz Willetts
Biodiversity is an economic, social, and environmental asset of great importance for all countries, encompassing complex interactions from the genetic to the planetary scale.

Mining is turning the Amazon into a desert

Roosevelt García-Villacorta
While scientists struggle to understand how we might terraform Mars, gold mining in the Amazon is creating biological deserts, transforming ecosystems critical to the planet.

Democracy challenges

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 The rise of authoritarian capitalism

Sebastián Godínez Rivera
As democracy erodes, charismatic leaders take advantage of social unrest to consolidate a hybrid model: authoritarian capitalism with a populist face. From Trump to Bukele, passing through Milei and Noboa, a generation emerges that embodies an era where economic stability outweighs democratic values.

Perverted democracies

Luis Pásara
Some Latin American regimes maintain voting rights while eliminating opposition. Are these really democracies, or just perverted versions of them?
Policy

Of worn-out speeches and unauthorized outlets: Reinventing...

Ángel Arellano
Chile welcomed progressive presidents, including Spain’s Pedro Sánchez, under the banner Democracy Always. But is that message consistent with what’s actually happening within each of their countries?
Democracy

Is democratic consensus in Argentina continuing to...

Santiago Leiras
This prolonged election year coexists with growing concern about the course of a democracy that faces a deterioration of the political consensus on which it has been based.

Disinformation

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Electoral evaluation of 2024: more disinformation and less capacity to combat it

Jesús Delgado Valery
Although for years various academic and governmental institutions, think tanks and specialists have been working to design measures to combat disinformation, the mechanisms to influence elections are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
Disinformation

Would “Community Notes” be a real solution to guarantee freedom of expression?

Ana Cláudia Santano
Either because of the lack of transparency of how this model actually works, or due to the type of the data, it is difficult to assume that the “Community Notes” are more democratic than the professional data verification system.
Disinformation

Zuckerberg and the perception of Brazilians about online content regulation

Camilo Aggio  |   Eurico Matos   |   Luciana Veiga
The regulation of digital media has become one of the most urgent topics of public debate in the face of the challenges posed by major transformations in politics and social interactions.

The impact of AI on democratic politics: risk or opportunity?

Camila Cassis  |   Teresa Bastiani   |   Fabián Echegaray
There are many challenges in integrating artificial intelligence into institutional processes and political engineering, and there is no consensus on its advantages. This double reading will condition innovations and fuel demands for external regulation.
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Nastassja Rojas Silva
Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá) and PhD candidate in Law at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Specializing in migration movements, gender studies and Venezuelan politics.
Alejandro García Magos
Political scientist and economist. PhD from the University of Toronto. Senior Editor at Global Brief Magazine. Social Research Design Specialist at RIWI Corp. (Real-Time Interactive World-Wide Intelligence).
Ana Paula Tostes
Political scientist. Professor and researcher at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). PhD in Political Science from IUPERJ (current IESP / UERJ). Researcher at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) - Núcleo Europa.
Leonardo Stanley
Associate Researcher at the Center for the Study of State and Society - CEDES (Buenos Aires). Author of "Latin America Global Insertion, Energy Transition, and Sustainable Development", Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Irene Torres
PhD in Health Promotion. Member of the International Advisory Board of The Lancet Global Health and member of the Steering Committee of the Thematic Working Group on Health Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings of Health Systems Global Health.

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