Febrero, 2018 World Economic Forum   En la reunión del Foro Económico Mundial en Davos la semana pasada, se abordaron al menos tres versiones diferentes sobre el futuro orden mundial. Una de ellos fue la difundida por un combativo Donald Trump, que pedía una retirada estadounidense a…

February, 2018 Project Syndicate   Since the end of World War II, Latin America has maintained a lukewarm stance toward the US-dominated liberal world order, and Brazil is no exception. But at the end of the day, Brazil has much more in common with the…

Venezuelans escaping economic crisis at home are also now pouring into Brazil. Though neighboring Colombia has born the brunt of this exodus, Brazil has seen 60,000 crossings from Venezuela and numbers are rising fast.

The question is whether our world leaders are capable of fully understanding what is happening in real time and can muster the collective action to set new rules of the road.

Lessons from Colombia Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Bogotá   A signed agreement between warring parties does not guarantee peace. Indeed, empirical evidence shows that peace processes often fail during the implementation stage if clauses in the agreement remain unfulfilled.  Institutional inertia, political resistance, lack of…

iPolitics Fevereiro, 2018 Three competing versions of the future world order clashed at the World Economic Forum’s gathering in Davos last week. There was the one pushed by a feisty Donald Trump calling for economic nationalism and his country’s retreat from the current order. Another was advanced by Chinese…

We are fixated to the forward march of democracies and the underlying principles on which they are based, yet we must learn to compromise and accommodate multiple value systems.

The 2030 Agenda as Strategic Entry Point Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Bogotá   In 2017, UN Secretary General António Guterres stepped up efforts to promote sustaining peace, a vision for a more preventive and effective approach to international peace and security.   The concept calls for…

It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of the global liberal order hangs precariously in the balance.

Adriana Erthal Abdenur In the 19th century Max Weber, a keen student of purpose-driven bureaucracies, hinted that institutions sometimes change their missions even when their original objectives are deeply embedded within founding charters and mission statements.  In international affairs, few organizations can attest to this tendency…

Esta semana se celebró en El Salvador el foro internacional “Diálogos sobre seguridad urbana: datos, diseño e innovación para la seguridad urbana”, organizado por Instituto Igarapé y otras organizaciones.

La proporción entre el número de asesinatos y el tamaño de la población en los respectivos estados fue más alta que el de dos de los países más violentos del mundo.

While the order has come under criticism in the past, it has never experienced anything quite like the assault of the present.

Para Katherine ​Aguirre- Tobón, investigadora del instituto Igarapé, un día sin homicidios es una anomalía en el sistema y no un logro.

Lessons from Colombia, Somaliland & Southern Somalia   Adriana Erthal Abdenur and Laurie Druelle   As part of the peace effort between the Colombian government and the FARC, a pilot program was launched in 2015 allowing ex-combatants from the guerrilla to collaborate with Army soldiers…