It’s Time for Puerto Rican Statehood
Puerto Ricans are excluded from many benefits of statehood, including voting in federal elections. Statehood would finally give Puerto Ricans a voice in decisions...
Analyzing Vladimir Putin: Is Joe Biden Dealing With A “Normal” Adversary?
Assessing an adversarial head of state is not usually a psychiatric task. For the most part, such high-value strategic appraisals need not be directed...
Saudi Arabia targets a more Republican Washington
Rather than push for an immediate improvement of strained relations with the United States, Saudi Arabia appears to be looking forward to a time...
The traditional “Third Position” of Peronism is the key for international cooperation
The Third Position as Foreign Policy of Argentina, performed in the three governments of President Juan Domingo Perón, was the best expression of Argentine...
Balancing the Rights of Nature and Economic Development: The case of Boric’s Chile
Chile, under its youngest President Gabriel Boric, has taken a historic step: to grant a Constitutional status to Rights of Nature. But can economic...
America’s Mental Health Crisis Is a Security Issue
A recent mass shooting by a mentally unstable man in New York City has underlined the dire need for improved mental healthcare in the...
Why we must invest more in Guatemala’s human capital
I have both a personal and a professional attachment to Guatemala. It is the first country I covered as country economist at the World...
Public safety or national security?
On December 21st of 2017, the former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto created a new law known as Ley de Seguridad Interior (Law of...
The Chinese theory on “the end of American hegemony” after the Ukrainian war
The fundamental question after the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine was about the possibility of China sacrificing its economic interests with...
Pushing the boundaries of morality: The American arms industry
When we think about war and defense our minds commonly go to soldiers, weapons, and violence, yet we neglect all the industry and production...