{"title":"Global and Regional Governance in a Multi-Centric World. By Gabriel Rached, Maria Lagutina, and Giovanni Barbieri, International Political Economy Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026. $159.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-3-031-82676-4","authors":"Citlali Ayala Martinez","doi":"10.1111/lamp.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lamp.70071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42501,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brazil's Brand of Regionalization: The Rise and the Demise of the South American Alliance","authors":"Oguz Dilek","doi":"10.1111/lamp.70061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lamp.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Global Governance with its adherent institutional frame is perplexed by what Gramsci might refer to as “discursive conflict” between the established capitalist core and other nations that advocate divergent values and goals. The regionalist turn in the emergent powers reflects this group's growing disillusionment with the established status quo. Their regionalism amounts to neither a complete retreat from global governance nor a declaration of war on liberal premises upon which global institutions sit. Instead, the objective is to craft new institutions to manage some of the key issues in accordance with their own norms and priorities, critically, with those neighbors who share their perception. As such, Brazil engineered Mercosur and Unasur to secure its economic development within a peaceful South American interstate order. After a promising headstart, this emergent power strategy quickly ran into the systemic constraints of being a latecomer to the game of capitalist development. Reading Brazil's regionalism through Hirschman's “voting with the feet” concept, this study employs a single-case process-tracing design anchored in the institutional evolution of Mercosur and Unasur, with intra-regional trade volumes and presidential discourse providing the principal empirical material.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":42501,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148617085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pressure Without Partnership: Latin America and the Limits of US Hemispheric Strategy","authors":"Juan Pablo Sims, Brice Tseen Fu Lee","doi":"10.1111/lamp.70060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lamp.70060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42501,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148616731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Frustrated Visit of the British Frigate HMS Montrose to Peru in 2012: An Explanation From the Decision-Making Process","authors":"Oscar Vidarte, Meloddy Saldarriaga","doi":"10.1111/lamp.70064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lamp.70064","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Considering the Peruvian state's position on the Malvinas issue, the authorization and subsequent cancellation of the visit of the British frigate HMS <i>Montrose</i> in 2012 revealed institutional constraints and tensions. Based on a case study built from official sources, interviews, and statements, a classical theoretical approach using the Organizational and Bureaucratic Models is used to analyze the role of the main public actors involved in the decision-making process. In this sense, it is argued that the authorization followed institutional routines with little interaction between sectors, while the cancellation expressed a conflictive bureaucratic dynamic in which the Foreign Ministry was able to impose its position. The analysis also shows how Peruvian foreign policy decision-making operates under a high level of fragmentation, sectoral logics, unclear rules, and important power asymmetries between actors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":42501,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148616507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Raúl Castro's Strategic Calculation: Why the US–Cuba Normalization Had to Fail","authors":"Adrian Łukasz Chrobot","doi":"10.1111/lamp.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lamp.70065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42501,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148616508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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