Heine Co-Authors Essay on Latin American Geopolitics
On October 2, 2020, Ambassador Jorge Heine, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, co-authored an essay in Global Policy on the fragmentation of Latin America and how this might effect the region following a “Second Cold War.”
In the essay, titled “Latin America Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Second Cold War and the Active Non-Alignment Option,” Heine and co-authors Carlos Fortín and Carlos Ominami speculate how a lack of regional unity might leave Latin America at the mercy of the United States and China, currently waging this second Cold War. The authors argue that Latin America must walk a middle path between these two superpowers and not fall into the trap of choosing sides between Washington and Beijing.
An excerpt:
Although it may last a couple of years, this pandemic will eventually pass. What will not pass is the helplessness of a fragmented region that finds itself in its weakest position in many decades. Far from reducing international tensions, the pandemic has exacerbated geopolitical rivalry.
The full piece can be read online.
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.