Editor's letter

IF 0.8 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Latin American Policy Pub Date : 2022-10-24 DOI:10.1111/lamp.12279

Isidro Morales

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Abstract

Our last issue for this year of Latin American Policy (LAP) opens with an article written by Alain Fairlie and Erika Collantes assessing the commercial repercussions of the Pacific Alliance, considering other regional trade agreements like the Andean Community and the Southern Common Market. The authors conclude that the Alliance has not significantly affected trade flows among its members or with other South American regional trade agreements. Pablo Garcés Velástegui then explores four irreducible cultures and their respective development models that currently prevail in South America, to consider the issues inherent to development theories. Charles G. Ripley explores the importance of South–South alliances in aiding the establishment of relations between Colombia and Venezuela (2008–2010), in handling Argentina's financial crisis (2003–2007), and in ending over 50 years of civil war in Colombia (1964–2016).

Luis Diego Segura R., Annemarie van Zeijl-Rozema, and Pim Martens offer a complex study of climate-change adaptation policies in Central America, considering if and how much they have been implemented. On a related environmental topic, Jennapher Lunde Seefeldt explores the growing contention between local communities and mining companies over water use for extracting lithium resources in Chile. The author concludes that activism and company and government responses can facilitate improved negotiations between stakeholders and allow for access to lithium while protecting more the environment and the peoples that survive in the desert. Finally, Nicolas Didier assesses the effectiveness of the Chilean training system, focusing on how it can improve wages.

LAP has also invited two distinguished Brazilian scholars, Monica Herz and Leticia Pinheiro, to prepare a special issue on Bolosnaro's foreign policy and the departure from previous Brazilian commitments in both multilateral fora and regional associations. The product is an excellent collection of eight research articles—also blind-reviewed by anonymous referees—that contributes to a thorough understanding of major policy changes affecting this key country in the Latin American region. We hope our readers may also benefit from this special issue.

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我们今年的最后一期《拉丁美洲政策》（LAP）以Alain Fairlie和Erika Collantes撰写的一篇文章开头，该文章评估了太平洋联盟的商业影响，并考虑了安第斯共同体和南方共同市场等其他区域贸易协定。作者得出的结论是，该联盟没有对其成员之间或与其他南美区域贸易协定的贸易流动产生重大影响。Pablo Garcés Velástegui随后探索了目前在南美洲盛行的四种不可简化的文化及其各自的发展模式，以考虑发展理论所固有的问题。Charles G.Ripley探讨了南南联盟在帮助哥伦比亚和委内瑞拉建立关系（2008-2010年）、处理阿根廷金融危机（2003-2007年）和结束哥伦比亚50多年内战（1964-2016年）方面的重要性。Luis Diego Segura R.，Annemarie van Zeijl Rozema，Pim Martens对中美洲的气候变化适应政策进行了复杂的研究，考虑到这些政策是否得到了实施以及实施了多少。在一个相关的环境主题上，Jennapher Lunde Seefeldt探讨了当地社区和矿业公司之间在智利开采锂资源的用水问题上日益激烈的争论。作者得出结论，激进主义以及公司和政府的回应可以促进利益相关者之间的谈判，并允许获得锂，同时保护更多的环境和在沙漠中生存的人民。最后，Nicolas Didier评估了智利培训系统的有效性，重点是它如何提高工资。洛杉矶警察局还邀请了两位杰出的巴西学者Monica Herz和Leticia Pinheiro，就博洛斯纳罗的外交政策以及巴西在多边论坛和区域协会中偏离以往承诺的问题编写一期特刊。该产品汇集了八篇研究文章，也由匿名裁判进行了盲审，有助于深入了解影响这个拉丁美洲地区关键国家的重大政策变化。我们希望我们的读者也能从这期特刊中受益。

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Latin American Policy POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

1.10

自引率

20.00%

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期刊介绍： Latin American Policy (LAP): A Journal of Politics and Governance in a Changing Region, a collaboration of the Policy Studies Organization and the Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Santa Fe Campus, published its first issue in mid-2010. LAP’s primary focus is intended to be in the policy arena, and will focus on any issue or field involving authority and polities (although not necessarily clustered on governments), agency (either governmental or from the civil society, or both), and the pursuit/achievement of specific (or anticipated) outcomes. We invite authors to focus on any crosscutting issue situated in the interface between the policy and political domain concerning or affecting any Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) country or group of countries. This journal will remain open to multidisciplinary approaches dealing with policy issues and the political contexts in which they take place.