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The Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) is devoted to inter-hemispheric exchanges that will advance the production and dissemination of knowledge about critical policy issues facing the Americas as well as the deepening of academic research in these areas. Its aim is to stimulate contact between scholars and decision-makers working on the region at different locations and in different languages, enriching their production by enabling the confluence of multiple perspectives.

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From The Hill: Tulane sociologist David Smilde argues against military intervention in Venezuela

From The Hill: Tulane sociologist David Smilde argues against military intervention in Venezuela

From Tulane News and Chicago Tribune: Tulane professor David Smilde explains the role of \'colectivos\' in Venezuela

From Tulane News and Chicago Tribune: Tulane professor David Smilde explains the role of 'colectivos' in Venezuela

From Tulane New Wave: Tulane mental health experts assist Puerto Rico post-Maria

From Tulane New Wave: Tulane mental health experts assist Puerto Rico post-Maria

Opening for CIPR Post-Doctoral Fellows

Opening for CIPR Post-Doctoral Fellows

From Tulane News and Gulf Times: Current Venezuela protests different from past ones

From Tulane News and Gulf Times: Current Venezuela protests different from past ones

From NPR: Sociologist David Smilde comments on allegiance of Venezuelan armed forces

From NPR: Sociologist David Smilde comments on allegiance of Venezuelan armed forces

From the Washington Post: Tulane sociologist David Smilde comments on opposition leader Juan Guaidó\'s return to Venezuela

From the Washington Post: Tulane sociologist David Smilde comments on opposition leader Juan Guaidó's return to Venezuela

Populism: Latin America in Comparative Perspective

Populism: Latin America in Comparative Perspective

CEQ Signs a MOU with The World Bank

CEQ Signs a MOU with The World Bank

Tulane Professor of Economics Nora Lustig co-edits new book \

Tulane Professor of Economics Nora Lustig co-edits new book "Decling Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?"

Research Group MEGA Published in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Research Group MEGA Published in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Critical Issues in Democratic Governance: Spring 2019 CIPR Series

Critical Issues in Democratic Governance: Spring 2019 CIPR Series

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Critical Issues in Democratic Governance: Spring 2019 CIPR Series

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Latin America faces major threats to democratic governance, but there are also new opportunities for grassroots mobilization and social policy expansion. In Critical Issues in Democratic Governance the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research will host speakers to discuss emerging issues that have surfaced in democratic governance in the region. In Brazil, the AIDS movement constructed a powerful new advocacy coalition, with coordination between bureaucrats and activities. In Argentina and Brazil, there are sharp contrasts in the social welfare policies that governors and mayors have implemented, with profound consequences for livelihood of the poor and marginalized. Finally, the outbreak of violence across Latin America, under democratic regimes raises questions about how criminal organizations compete for influence over transnational illicit networks and infiltrate the state.

Spring 2019 Schedule

February 8, 2019
State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil
Jessica Rich, Marquette University

February 22, 2019
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room in Jones 100A
Uneven Social Policies: The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America
Sara Niedzwiecki, University of California, Santa Cruz

April 5, 2019
Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America
Deborah Yashar, Princeton University

Please RSVP to cipr@tulane.edu.