{"title":"The Key Architects of Brazil's Foreign Policy and the Quest for Multipolarity Under Lula","authors":"Tiago Soares Nogara","doi":"10.1111/blar.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article analyses the trajectories and worldviews of three central architects of Brazilian foreign policy during Lula's first two terms—Marco Aurélio Garcia, Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães and Celso Amorim. It argues that their progressive and anti-imperialist orientations, aligned with the Workers' Party's broader project, were decisive in shaping the foundations of the ‘assertive foreign policy’ that marked the PT era. By contrasting their perspectives with liberal and conservative traditions within the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with interpretations that explain the period primarily through the lenses of bourgeois hegemony, the study shows how their influence forged a foreign policy committed to sovereignty, multipolarity, regional integration and South–South solidarity, with lasting impact on Brazil's international role.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"America, América: A New History of the New World. By Greg Grandin, London: Torva, 2025. xxiii +745 pp. £30.00 (hardcover), £22.58 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-911709-90-9","authors":"Benjamin T. Smith","doi":"10.1111/blar.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines. By Verónica Pérez Rodríguez, Shanti Morell-Hart, and Stacie M. King, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024. xviii + 346 pp. £54.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781477327968","authors":"Ricardo Aguilar-González","doi":"10.1111/blar.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cuba's Three Autocratic Transitions: From Revolutionary Regime to (Post)Totalitarianism and New Authoritarianism?","authors":"Armando Chaguaceda, Susanne Gratius","doi":"10.1111/blar.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cuba is the oldest and most consolidated autocracy in the Americas. Its Revolution in 1959, the charisma of Fidel Castro, the single-party system and the US embargo have made the island an exceptional case. However, recent developments such as popular protests, limited reforms, emigration or socio-economic decline are bringing about some political changes. Within a peculiar autocratic continuity since the Cuban Revolution, the presidency of Miguel Díaz-Canel corresponds to some characteristics of new authoritarianism which will be examined in this article, focusing on the idea of three intra-autocratic transitions: (1) from an authoritarian revolutionary regime to totalitarianism, (2) from totalitarian to post-totalitarianism and (3) towards new authoritarianism that preserves some features of the past.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147653369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Nahua: Language and Culture From the Sixteenth Century to the Present. By Galen Brokaw and Pablo García Loaeza, Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2024. xiv +297 pp. $32.95 (paperback). $29.95 ebook, ISBN: 9781646425785 (paperback), 9781646425792 (ebook)","authors":"Caroline Egan","doi":"10.1111/blar.70084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147288504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eating Peru: A Gastronomic Journey. By Robert C. Bradley, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023. xii + 279 pp. £18.9 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0806192789","authors":"Juan Javier Rivera Andía","doi":"10.1111/blar.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147320911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Border Reader. By Gilberto Rosas, and Mireya Loza, Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. xi +691 pp. £123.00 (hardcover), £31.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4780-2719-5","authors":"Jason Ahlenius","doi":"10.1111/blar.70083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147320842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands. By Pérez Montesinos Fernando, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2025. x+316 pp. £39.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781477331002","authors":"Jason Ahlenius","doi":"10.1111/blar.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147299876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to Special Section ‘Latinx Studies in the UK: Reflections on a Field in the Making’","authors":"Clara Garavelli, Emma Staniland","doi":"10.1111/blar.70077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70077","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This Introduction to the edited Special Section by Clara Garavelli and Emma Staniland offers a rationale for the first coordinated scholarly intervention dedicated to Latinx Studies in the United Kingdom and provides a summary of the five articles that comprise the collection.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70077","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147320843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to ‘Revolutionary Encounters in the Cold War: Carlos María Gutiérrez and the Socialist Dialogue Between Latin America and China’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/blar.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We apologize for these errors.</p>","PeriodicalId":9338,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Latin American Research","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/blar.70075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147315432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}