Argentina gains expanded access to the market and financial backing from Washington, but cedes strategic autonomy by aligning with its interests and limiting ties with China.
The support of the new Latin American right for Donald Trump reveals how far it is willing to relativize democracy in the name of its geopolitical alignment.
In the era of the “geopolitics of the self,” global power ceases to be structured around rules and stable alliances and instead revolves around the personalistic, transactional, and self-referential leadership of Donald Trump.
In a scenario where crime is organized in networks, the lack of coordination between Ecuador and Colombia only makes what is legal more costly and strengthens what is illegal.
Equating good governance with security—whether national or "human"—is a fallacy that hides the weakness of the state and legitimizes militarization instead of strengthening democracy.
The United States’ withdrawal from multilateralism accelerates the fragmentation of the inter-American system and opens a “post-American” scenario in which China advances amid weakened regional governance.
