Publications
Books
- 2022: A Small State's Guide to Influence in Word PoliticsLink opens in a new window (Oxford University Press, Bridging the Gap Series, 2022)
- 2015: Latin America Confronts the United StatesLink opens in a new window: Asymmetry and Influence (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- A 2016 Foreign Affairs Book of the YearLink opens in a new window
- Reviews are available here
Edited books
- 2023: North American Regionalism: Stagnation, Decline, or Renewal?Link opens in a new window (University of New Mexico Press, “Latin America in the World/The World in Latin America” Series).
- Edited with Eric Hershberg. An outcome of the Robert A. Pastor North American Research Initiative, at American University.
- Disponible en español, Editorial El Colegio de MéxicoLink opens in a new window, 2024.
- 2022: North America 2.0: Forging a Continental FutureLink opens in a new window (The North American Institutes at the Woodrow Wilson Center).
- Edited with Alan Bersin. Policy-focused compilation.
- Disponible en españolLink opens in a new window (Wilson Center, Institute of the America, 2024)
Journal articles
- 2024: “A turn against empire: Benito Juárez's liberal rejoinder to the French intervention in MexicoLink opens in a new window,” American Political Science Review, FirstView. With Carsten-Andreas Schulz.
- 2024: "State, crime, and violence in Mexico, 1920-2000: arbiters of impunity, agents of coercion,Link opens in a new window” Past & Present, Online Advance. With Benjamin T. Smith.
- 2024: “Del consenso a la complejidad: relaciones interamericanas diversas y en transiciónLink opens in a new window,” special issue, Revista CIDOB d'Afers internacionals, no. 136 (April 2024), pp. 35-62.With Sebastián Bitar.
- 2023: “Compensatory layering and the birth of the multipurpose multilateral IGO in the AmericasLink opens in a new window,” International Organization, Vol. 77, no. 1 (Winter 2023), pp. 1-32. With Carsten-Andreas Schulz.
- 2022: “Política exterior colombiana y performatividad: ¿Un 'buen miembro' del Orden Internacional Liberal?Link opens in a new window” Desafíos,Vol. 34 (especial).With Mauricio Palma-Gutiérrez.
- Part of the special issue, Política exterior de Colombia: más allá de los lugares comunes, edited by Arlene Tickner and Maria Catalina Monroy.
- 2022: "Republican internationalism: The nineteenth-century roots of Latin American contributions to international orderLink opens in a new window," Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 639-661. With Carsten-Andreas Schulz.
- Part of the special issue, ‘The Liberal International Order and the Global South’: A View from Latin America, edited by Christy Thornton and José Luis Rodríguez.
- 2022: "Issue-areas, sovereignty costs, and North Americans' attitudes towards regional cooperationLink opens in a new window," Global Studies Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1, ksac011, pp. 1-12. With Malcolm Fairbrother and Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz.
- 2021: "Status at the margins: Why Paraguay recognizes Taiwan and shuns China," Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 17, No. 1, oraa002, pp. 1-22. With Francisco Urdinez.
- 2020: "The Promise of precommitment in democracy and human rights: The Hopeful, Forgotten Failure of the Larreta Doctrine," Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 1088-1103. With Max Paul Friedman.
- 2020: "Historical antecedents and post-WWII regionalism in the Americas," World Politics, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 214-253.
- 2020: "Domestic contestation and presidential prerogative in Colombian foreign policy," Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 466-482. With Sebastián Bitar and Gabriel Jiménez Peña.
- 2018: "Latin America and the liberal international order: An agenda for research," International Affairs, Vol. 94, No. 6 (November 2018).
- 2018: "The U.S., Latin America, and Brazil: The dynamics of asymmetrical regionalism," Contemporary Politics, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 113-129 (January 2018). In the special issue, Major Powers in Shared Neighbourhoods
- 2017: “Small states, great power? Gaining influence through intrinsic, derivative, and collective power,” International Studies Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 185-205 (June 2017).
- 2017: “It’s not the size, it’s the relationship: From ‘small states’ to asymmetry,” International Politics, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 144-160 (March 2017)
- 2017: “Coloso fragmentado: la agenda ‘interméstica’ y la política exterior latinoamericana,” Foro Internacional, No. 227 (vol. LVII-1, enero marzo de 2017)
- 2016: “The United States in Latin America: The overstated decline of a superpower,” The Latin Americanist, Vol. 60, No. 4 (December 2016)
- 2015: “Soft balancing in the Americas: Latin American opposition to U.S. intervention, 1898-1936,” International Security, Vol. 40, No. 1 , pp. 120-156. With Max Paul Friedman.
- H-Diplo review by Christopher Darnton
- H-Diplo reply by Friedman and Long
- 2014: “Putting the canal on the map: Panamanian agenda-setting and the 1973 Security Council meetings,” Diplomatic History, Vol 38, No. 2, pp. 431-455.
- H-Diplo review by Andrew Kirkendall
Book chapters
- 2023: “Introduction: Placing North America in a World of Regions,” and “Conclusion: The North American Idea Looking Forward”
In North American Regionalism: Stagnation, Decline, or Renewal?Link opens in a new window (Santa Fe, NM: University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming 2023). With Eric Hershberg. - 2022: "Introduction" and "Conclusion," in North America 2.0: Forging a Continental FutureLink opens in a new window , edited by Tom Long and Alan Bersin, Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center, pp. 1-14, pp. 339-349. With Alan Bersin.
- 2022: "Your Regionalism and Mine: The United States and South American Cooperation in the Global Pandemic," in Melisa Deciancio and Cíntia Quiliconi, eds., Regional and International Cooperation in South America After COVIDLink opens in a new window: Challenges and Opportunities Post-pandemic, New York: Routledge, chapter 2. With Thaís Dória.
- 2021: "The United States in Latin America: Lasting Asymmetries, Waning Influence?" in Gian Luca Gardini, ed., External Powers in Latin America:Link opens in a new window Geopolitics between Neo-extractivism and South-South Cooperation (Routledge), pp. 15-28.
- 2021: "Chile en la convergencia de las crisis," in Cristóbal Bywaters, Daniela Sepúlveda Soto, Andrés Villar, eds. Nuevas voces de política exterior: Chile y el mundo en la era post-consensualLink opens in a new window (Santiago, Chile: Fondo de Cultura Económica), pp. 59-69.
- 2020, "Small states in Central America," in Godfrey Baldacchino and Anders Wivel, eds., Handbook on the Politics of Small States (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), pp. 242-258.
- 2019: “Latin American international security,” in Harry E. Vanden and Gary Prevost, eds., Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Latin America PoliticsLink opens in a new window (Oxford University Press, October 2019). With Sebastián Bitar.
- 2018: “Latin America: Asymmetry and the problem of influence,” in Robert Jervis, Francis Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse, eds, Chaos in the Liberal Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the 21st Century (Columbia University Press, 2018). With Max Paul Friedman.
- 2017: “Regional public goods in North America,” in Louis W. Goodman and Antoni Estevadeordal, eds., 21st Century Cooperation: Regional Public Goods, Global Governance, and Sustainable Development, (Routledge, 2017). With Manuel Suarez-Mier.
Essays and reports
- 2024: “AMLO was no isolationist,” Foreign Policy, September 26, 2024. With Carsten-Andreas
- 2024: “In the Interstices of Asymmetry: Two Centuries of US-Latin American RelationsLink opens in a new window,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (Summer 2024).
- 2024: "Treinta años: Caminos, utopías y distopíasLink opens in a new window," Nexos, January. Special issue on 30th anniversary of NAFTA.
- 2023: "The Return of the Monroe Doctrine," Foreign Policy, December 16, 2023. With Carsten-Andreas Schulz.
- 2022: "North America in the World"Link opens in a new window Strengthening North American Ties, no. 11, July 2022. Woodrow Wilson Center.
- 2021: “From Biden to Trump in Latin AmericaLink opens in a new window,” NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 121-126.
- 2021: "Biden's Latin America policyLink opens in a new window," LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre Blog, January 19, 2021.
- 2019: "There is no map: International Relations in the Americas," review essay for Latin American Research Review, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp.548–555.
- 2018: “La relación entre Estados Unidos y América Latina y el Caribe en la era Trump,” Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior, no. 114, pp. 157-175.
- 2017: “Trump and Latin America: Asymmetry and the problem of influence,” in America and the World—2017 and Beyond, H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Series. With Max Paul Friedman.
- 2014: “Echoes of 1992: The NAFTA negotiations and North America now,” Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
- 2010: “The Cold War and its aftermath in the Americas: The search for a synthetic interpretation of U.S. policy,” Latin American Research Review, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 261-273. With Robert A. Pastor.
Projects in progress
- AHRC Grant: Latin America and the peripheral foundations of nineteenth-century international order, c. £250,000. With Carsten-Andreas Schulz.
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“Latin America and the making of the post-war world. ”Long-term project with multiple outputs. Archival work conducted in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and the US. Funding from British Academy, British Council, Truman Library Institute, Fulbright.
Reviews
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Of Carlos Fortin, Jorge Heine, and Carlos Ominami, eds., Latin American Foreign Policies in the New World Order: The Active Non-Alignment Option, London: Anthem Press, 2023. Global PolicyLink opens in a new window (November 2023)
- Of Vanni Pettinà, A Compact History of Latin America’s Cold War, Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2022. Journal of Latin American Studies (August 2023)
- Of Rebecca Herman, Cooperating with the Colossus: a social and political history of US military bases in World War II Latin America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. International Affairs (July 2023)
- Of Piero Gleijeses, America's Road to Empire: Foreign Policy from Independence to World War One, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Journal of Latin American StudiesLink opens in a new window (February 2023).
- Of Juan Pablo Scarfi and David M.K. Sheinin, eds., The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations, New York: Routledge, 2022, International AffairsLink opens in a new window (Janury 2023).
- Of Jack Corbett, Xu Yi-chong, and Patrick Weller, International Organizations and Small States: Participation, Legitimacy, and Vulnerability, Bristol University Press, 2021. International AffairsLink opens in a new window (May 2022).
- Of Amitav Acharya, Melisa Deciancio, and Diana Tussie, eds., Latin America in Global International Relations, Routledge 2022, International Affairs (November 2021).
- Of Arturo Santa-Cruz, US hegemony and the Americas: power and economic statecraft in International Relations, Routledge, 2020, International Affairs (September 2020).
- Of Maud Chirio, Politics in Uniform: Military Officers and Dictatorship in Brazil, 1960–1980, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018, Bulletin of Latin American Research (July 2020)
- Of Annette Idler, Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia’s War, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, in International Affairs, Vol. 96, No. 2 (April 2020)
- Of Pablo Piccatto, A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017, in International Affairs, Vol. 95, No. 6 (November 2019)
- Of Abbey Steele, Democracy and Displacement in Colombia’s Civil War, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018, in <em>International Affairs, </em>Vol. 95, No. 4 (July 2019)
- Of Lars Schoultz, In Their Own Best Interest, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018, In H-Diplo Roundtable (June 2019)
- Of Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald, eds., Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean, Cambridge, 2017, in International Affairs (March 2019)
- Of Andrew Selee, Vanishing Frontiers, New York: PublicAffairs, 2018, in International Affairs (January 2019)
- Of Joseph S. Tulchin, Latin America in International Politics, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2016, in Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 50, no. 2 (May 2018)
- Of Robert A. Karl, Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia, Oakland: University of California Press, 2017, in International Affairs, vol. 94, no. 2 (March 2018)
- Of Juan Pablo Scarfi, The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas, New York: Cambridge, 2017, in International Affairs, vol. 94, no. 1 (January 2018)
- Of Hal Brands, Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016, in Political Science Quarterly, vol. 132, no. 3, pp. 553-555 (Fall 2017).
- Of Robert A. Karl, “Reading the Cuban revolution from Bogotá, 1957–62.” Cold War History 16:4, (Fall 2016): 337-358, in H-Diplo Article Review no. 692, April 26, 2017.
- Of Christopher Darnton, Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, in Foro Internacional, LV, 4 (222), 201