The latest BRICS’ expansion implies a paradigm shift for the group itself and for the international system.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program warrants close examination amidst ongoing legal and political debates.

A new U.S. policy towards Cuba based on engagement, not isolation, would benefit both Cubans and Americans.

The loss of life at a Mexican migrant detention center is only the latest consequence of the U.S.'s and region’s move towards more restrictive immigration policies

As Latin American nations try to reduce gun violence, they face a major challenge: the loose gun policies and mass manufacturing to their north.

Security cooperation is important but not sufficient. Additional aid to Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries is the key to fight human trafficking.

In 2020, President Joe Biden promised to reengage the US in diplomacy. However, to carry out his promise, he must rejoin UNESCO and recommit the US to building peace through cooperation in science, culture, and education.

To understand the dynamics of climate change, a challenge that knows no borders, it is important to look at the countries that are championing matters of climate action, and the ones that are falling behind.

To understand the dynamics of climate change, a challenge that knows no borders, it is important to look at the countries that are championing matters of climate action, and the ones that are falling behind.

By analyzing issues and conflict through the lens of collective guilt, remembering the impacts of globalization and interconnectivity, it is possible to identify the factors that cause or aggravate a certain situation, and therefore create comprehensive and sustainable solutions.

The United States’ focus on developing security and resilience in its domestic semiconductor supply chain is too narrowly fixated on specific steps in the broader process.

First-hand reporting and analysis of the Maya Q’eqchi’ resistance movement against multinational corporate exploitation and in defense of land, nature, and the inalienable right to exist.

Global and regional trade is based on a series of complex economic and financial relationships between countries that can offer opportunities for economic development. However, such activities depend on a delicate balance that nation-states often have trouble maintaining. This case study will look at how MERCOSUR’s future is in danger due to the economic rivalry between Argentina and Brazil. This article uses the example of MERCOSUR as it is one of the most significant attempts of regional trade and cooperation in the history of the region. When looking at the trade relationship between Brazil and Argentina mentioned in the article, similar fraught relationships that have negatively impacted cooperation agreements around the globe emerge. This piece introduces some of the complex aspects of regionalism and how often "the most powerful agents" shape the past, present, and future of cooperation relationships at the regional level.

El Salvador’s government under the leadership of Nayib Bukele has engaged in some of the most authoritarian measures since the civil war, including the sabotage of an ongoing investigation into the 1981 El Mozote Massacre. The U.S. government has played an equally damaging role in preventing accountability and justice for the victim’s families.

As foreign governments consider releasing centralized digital currencies, the US dollar faces challenges to its global primacy.

From European colonialism to U.S. imperialism, foreign powers have only ever been interested in securing their own foreign policy interests, primarily based on the extraction of wealth from the Haitian people.

Minimal and decontextualized coverage of Haitian protests prior to the assassination of Haitian president and close U.S. ally Jovenel Moïse helped safeguard his PHTK party’s catastrophic neoliberal agenda. Since Moïse’s assassination, a media flood on Haiti’s political crisis is setting the stage for further foreign intervention.

Under the control of numerous Colombian presidents, the Colombian military has taken advantage of billions of dollars in U.S. military funding to engage in systematic suppression of grassroots social movements

Misinformation, discrimination, and stigmatization fuel xenophobia around the world. An analysis of the latest development of migration policies, however, may suggest that things are changing.

Rapprochement between the two nations could help repair an age-old adversarial relationship and spur a new era of collaborative foreign policy in Latin America.