Heine Discusses Significance of Brazil-China Relations
Professor Jorge Heine provided insightful commentary on the pivotal relationship between Brazil and China. Highlighting the profound economic and political ties between the two nations, Heine’s analysis sheds light on their evolving dynamics.
Argentina’s BRICS Rejection: Insights from Heine
Ambassador Jorge Heine analyzed Argentina’s decision to decline BRICS membership, emphasizing the nation’s reliance on the Chinese market. He highlighted the challenges of distancing from a vital trading partner, noting, “Keeping a distance is always a tough battle.”
Heine Analyzes Argentina’s BRICS Decision
Ambassador Jorge Heine, reflecting on Argentina’s decision to decline joining BRICS, highlighted the ideological shift in foreign policy. Expressing surprise at the lack of pragmatism, he emphasized the importance of diplomacy. The move, seen in the context of complex economic challenges, risks strained relations with key trading partners.
Heine on President-elect Milei’s BRICS Omission
In a recent Al Jazeera article, Professor Heine expressed concern over President-elect Javier Milei’s decision to avoid the BRICS bloc, calling it a ‘slap in the face’ to China and Brazil. Heine predicted Milei’s presidency could bolster the global far-right movement, reshaping Argentina’s foreign relations.
Heine Unveils Developments in Gaza
In his piece for The Conversation, Professor Heine examines the UN’s “humanitarian truce” resolution on the Gaza conflict, exposing the stark division in voting. With 120 countries in support and 14, including the U.S. and some EU members against, Heine asserts the Global South’s influential criticism of Western support for Israel, marking 2023 as a pivotal year for this assertiveness.
Heine Explores Active Non-Alignment: Challenges in the Global South
Professor Heine was featured in Vanguardia Dossier #89 (Oct-Dec 2023). His article, “El no alineamiento activo: los desafíos del Sur Global,” explores Active Non-Alignment’s resurgence in Global South foreign policy amid evolving international dynamics.
Heine Quoted in NPR’s All Things Considered
On August 21, 2023, Amb. Jorge Heine, Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was quoted in NPR’s All Things Considered podcast on the coalition of expanding economies known as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South…
Heine on BRICS Expansion
On August 29, 2023, Amb. Jorge Heine, Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, appeared in a podcast interview with PERSPECTIVA GLOBAL to discuss the expansion of the coalition of expanding economies known as BRICS (Brazil,…
Heine Ponders Argentinian Application to Join BRICS
On August 23, 2023, Amb. Jorge Heine, Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was quoted in a South China Morning Post article on the fruitfulness of Argentina’s bid to join the coalition of emerging economies…
Heine Offers Insight on Active Non-Alignment in Latin America
Ambassador Heine discusses his latest book, the resurgence of active non-alignment worldwide, and a new emerging Cold War between the United States and China.
Heine Publishes Op-Ed on the Future of Chinese Foreign Policy
“With hostile winds towards China from the North Atlantic, the Global South will take center stage in Chinese foreign policy…Entities such as the expanding BRICS and a Latin America that is gaining new momentum will receive preferential attention.”
Heine Keynote Explores BRICS and the Reimagining of Global Governance
Ambassador Heine elaborates on the rise of the BRICS group over the course of the past decade and a half, the various stages it has gone through, the significance of the Shanghai-based New Development Bank, and the potential addition of new members, like Argentina and/or Indonesia.
Heine Comments on Lula’s Presidential Win & Brazil’s Relations with China
“The US-China trade spat, and the mutual tariffs it has led to on bilateral trade have been highly beneficial to Brazil, which has considerably increased its agricultural exports to China.”
Heine Publishes Op-Ed on Argentina’s Prospective BRICS Membership
“There is thus little doubt that Argentina would bring much to the table if it joins the BRICS, while benefitting from the additional diplomatic heft and leverage it would gain by joining this by now well-established club of rising powers — in many ways the fresh face of the Global South in the new century.”
Heine Publishes Op-Ed on Potential BRICS Expansion
“It is telling that in 2022 Argentina sees its future not in Old Europe or in the North Atlantic, but in the New South, embodied in the BRICS, and whose core is in the Asia-Pacific.”
Miller Comments on BRICS and Impact of International Institutions
“If U.S. President Joe Biden wants the United States to lead the liberal international order again and stymie China’s rise, he would do well to remember that international order is not a monolithic entity but comprises different groupings of power that jockey for influence.”
Grimes Interviewed on the Challenges Facing BRICS
Associate Dean William Grimes discusses the impact of the BRICS countries on the new international economic order.
Gallagher Interviewed on China-LatAm Relations
Prof. Kevin Gallagher discusses the upcoming BRICS conference and the effect of President Donald Trump on the China-LatAm relationship.