Heine’s “Active Non-Alignment and Latin America” Reviewed in “Global Policy“
Active Non-Alignment and Latin America: A Doctrine for the New Century, the latest book by Ambassador Jorge Heine, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was reviewed in Global Policy.
Building on their Global Policy essay from October 2020, Heine, Carlos Fortin, and Carlos Ominami’s Active Non-Alignment and Latin American makes the case for an active non-alignment doctrine adapted to the new century as an ambitious proposal for Latin America to deal with the emergence of the post-Western multi-polar world, and the crises of the current era. Contributors to the book include some of Latin America’s leading IR specialists, as well as four former foreign ministers, and Argentina’s current minister of defense.
An excerpt:
At a time when nations are being pressured to pick sides, this book will make an important contribution to global debates on the options open to states and regions. It makes a timely clarion call to consider active non-alignment as a principled third option that can enable non-aligned states to serve as bridges for negotiated solutions in violent international conflict scenarios.
The Global Policy review can be read on their website.
Ambassador Jorge Heine is a Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He has served as ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017), to India (2003-2007) and to South Africa (1994-1999), and as a Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government. Read more on him here.