Global South Unit

Thursday 8 December 2016

A Global South Unit and LSESU Latin American Society Public Lecture

A more effective State: Public sector compensation and the quality of the bureaucracy in Latin America

Speaker: Dr. Pablo Brassiolo

Discussant: Dr. Alvaro Mendez

Chair: Dr. Caroline Varin

You can access the report A more effective State Capacities for designing, implementing and evaluating public policies in English and Spanish.

Time: 6:30-8pm  Venue: Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE Campus

Friday, 13 January 2017             

IV ANNUAL CAF- LSE CONFERENCE
Globalization in Crisis: Implications for the Global South             

Speakers TBC
Venue: Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building, LSE Campus

African countries square up for battle over future of ivory trade ban

Authors: Chris Alden, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ross Harvey, Senior Researcher in Natural Resource Governance (Africa), South African Institute of International Affairs

August 10, 2016

Passive agents? Bureaucratic agency in Africa-China negotiations:
A case study of Benin
Folashadé Soulé-Kohndou
Working Paper Series 03-2016, May 2016

Civil Society Organisations’ Political Control over Brazil and Japan’s Development Cooperation in Mozambique: More than a mere whim?
Sérgio Chichava and Jimena Durán
Working Paper Series 02-2016, February 2016

Early Lessons from the Colombian Peace Process
Andrés Ucrós Maldonado
Working Paper Series 01-2016, January 2016

The Long Crisis Facing Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Policy Reforms
Rajiv Biswas and Álvaro Méndez
Policy Brief Series 01-2016, January 2016

Change and Continuity in Chinese Foreign Policy:
China’s Engagement in the Libyan Civil War as a Case Study
Jian Junbo and Álvaro Méndez
Working Paper Series 05-2015, November 2015

Comparative advantages and challenges of regional developmental banks: The CAF experience
L. Enrique Garcia
Policy Briefs Series 02-2015, September 2015

What next for the peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC?
Sophie Haspeslagh
Policy Briefs Series 01-2015, August 2015

The Origins of Nuclear Cooperation between Brazil and Argentina
Matias Spektor 
Working Paper Series 04-2015, August 2015

A comparative study of foreign economic policies: The CIVETS countries
Angélica Guerra-Barón and Álvaro Méndez 
Working Paper Series 03-2015, June 2015

Reshaping the Financial Architecture for Development Finance. The New Development Banks
Rajiv Biswas
Working Paper Series 02-2015, March 2015

Regional Organizations and Security Governance: A Comparative Assessment of IGAD and ASEAN
Asnake Kefale
Working Paper Series 01-2015, January 2015

Strategies and Counter-strategies: China in the Andean Region of South America
Ádam Chimienti and Benjamin Creutzfeldt
Working Paper Series 01-2014, October 2014

China and  Mozambique: From Comrades to Capitalists

New Edited volume by Dr Chris Alden and Dr Sergio Chichava, "China and Mozambique drills down into the heart of a relationship whose growing depth and complexity exposes key themes that will affect Africa’s future development."

Mercenaries, Hybrid Armies and National Security

This book, authored by Dr Caroline Varin, assesses the use of ‘mercenaries’ by states, and their integration into the national armed forces as part of a new hybridisation trend of contemporary armies in the 'Global South' as well as in Western societies. 

Thursday, 10 November 2016

GSU PUBLIC LECTURE

Mexico and China: Socioeconomic and Policy Challenges in 2016

Speaker: Prof. Enrique Dussel Peters, Graduate School of Economics at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Chair: Dr Alvaro Mendez, co-founder of LSE Global South Unit; Senior Research Fellow, Department of International Relations, LSE

Venue: Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE CampusTime: 6.30PM

Wednesday, 26 October 2016

GSU PUBLIC LECTURE

Sustainable Development or Exploitation: Lessons from China in Latin America

Speakers:  Isabel Hilton, journalist and broadcaster
Jin Jiaman, Executive Director of the Beijing-based Global Environmental Institute (GEI)

Chair: Dr Alvaro Mendez, co-founder of LSE Global South Unit; Senior Research Fellow, Department of International Relations, LSE

Listen to the podcast

Venue: CLM.2.02, Clement House, Aldwych, LSE Campus
Time: 6.30PM

Monday, 12 September 2016

LSE and UTDT joint conference
The Chinese Connection: Argentinian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

Venue: Aula 102, Universidad Torcuato di Tella Campus Alcorta
Time: 08.00 - 17.30

 Thursday, 21 July 2016

GSU PUBLIC LECTURE (Summer School)
China and Latin America: The case of Peru

Speaker: Professor Cynthia Sanborn, Director of the Research Center at the Universidad del Pacífico (CIUP); Professor of Political Science, CIUP
Chair: Dr. Alvaro Mendez, co-founder of LSE Global South Unit; Senior Research Fellow, Department of International Relations, LSE

Listen to the podcast

Venue:  NAB.1.04
Time: 18.20-20.00

 Wednesday, 13 July 2016

GSU PUBLIC LECTURE (Summer School)
Rooted versus Mechanical Dependency: China in Latin America's Extractive Sector

Speaker: Professor Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Instituto Igarapé Fellow
Chair: Professor Chris Alden, Director of the Global South Unit; Professor in International Relations, LSE

Listen to the podcast

Time:  18.30- 20.00
Venue:  CLM.7.02

Thursday, 9 June 2016

GSU PUBLIC LECTURE
Inclusive sustainable development when the Global South's economies 'head south': Lessons from Bolivia

Speakers: Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, Head of the Ministry of Economy and Public Finances from the Plurinational State of Bolivia;
Rene Orellana Halkyer, Minister of Development Planning from the Plurinational State of Bolivia
Chair: Dr. Alvaro Mendez, co-founder of LSE Global South Unit; Senior Research Fellow, Department of International Relations, LSE

Time:  18.30 - 20.00 
Venue:  Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE Campus

Twitter: #LSEBolivia

Click here to listen to the podcast from the event
(Start -  09:10 mins. End - 01:37:11 mins)

Friday, 29 April 2016

WORKSHOP 
"Leadership in times of uncertainty: The role of regional development banks in Latin America”

With Enrique Garcia, President of CAF; Professor of Practice, LSE
Time:  5-7pm 

Venue:  Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE campus

Thursday, 28 April 2016

PUBLIC LECTURE: GSU & DEPT INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 
From Tailwinds to Headwinds. Can Latin America Weather the Storm?

Speaker: Enrique Garcia, President of CAF; Professor of Practice, LSE
Chair: Professor Chris Alden, Director of the Global South Unit; Professor in International Relations, LSE

Time:  6.30-8pm 
Venue:  Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE campus

President Garcia explored the role of development banks in meeting the current challenges that Latin America faces in the 21st century.

Listen to the podcast here.

Wednesday 2 March 2016

LSE GSU PUBLIC LECTURE
Panama: consolidating democracy, growth and human development

Speaker: Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado, Vice-President and Foreign Minister of Panama
Chair: Dr Alvaro Mendez, co-founder of LSE Global South Unit; Research Fellow, Department of International Relations, LSE

Time: 1-2pm
Venue: LSE Campus, TBC to ticketholders

Friday, 22 January 2016

II ANNUAL LEADERSHIP SEMINAR
Latin America's Challenges in the Public Sector and Multilaterals

Speaker: Verónica Zavala, General Manager of Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness at the Inter-American Development Bank
Chair: Dr Alvaro Mendez, Senior Research Fellow, Global South Unit

Time: 17.00 - 19.00
Venue: OLD 4.01, Old Building, LSE Campus

Friday, 15 January 2016

III ANNUAL CAF- LSE CONFERENCE 
Global Governance in an Era of Uncertainty

Speakers:

Enrique García, President of CAF – Development Bank of Latin America;
Leonel Fernández, Former President of the Dominican Republic;
Michel Camdessus,Former Managing Director of the IMF and Governor of the Bank of France;
Enrique Iglesias, Former Secretary General of SEGIB, President of the Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank, and Executive Secretary of ECLAC
Celso Amorim, Former Minister of Foreign Relations and Minister of Defense of Brazil

For all of the speakers see the full conference programme here.

One of the most important developments of the contemporary century is the emergence of the global south onto the stage of world politics. However, these new rising states do not have a track record in international leadership in a globalized world. The challenges and uncertainties of the twenty-first century require a multilateral approach to global governance. The third annual CAF-LSE conference was held on Friday 15th January 2016 at the London School of Economics. This conference contributed to understanding the rise of the global south by focusing on key international actors from Asia, Africa and Latin America and their perspectives on global governance in an era of uncertainty.

Conference Programme
Venue: Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building, LSE Campus
Time: 09.00 - 18.15

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

GSU PUBLIC LECTURE
For a Safer Latin America: a new perspective to prevent and control crime
Speaker: Dr Daniel Ortega, CAF Senior Research Economist; Adjunct Professor at IESA Business School, Caracas
Chair: Dr Alvaro Mendez, co-founder of LSE Global South Unit; Research Fellow, Department of International Relations, LSE
Venue: Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE Campus
Time: 18.30-20:00
Co-hosted with LSE Latin American Society - Poster