Why and how does the region both consolidate and undermine the LIO through regionalism?
We dig into migration + election monitoring to find out.
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New blog post w/ @gioagostinis.bsky.social for United Nations University-CRIS

We explore South America’s ambivalent relationship with the Liberal International Order — backing liberal norms like human rights, but resisting others like democracy protection.

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This research sheds light on the complex coexistence of liberal and illiberal tendencies in South American regionalism and contributes to broader debates on contestation in the Global South.

🔍 Key takeaways:

✅ Migration: Counter-institutionalization reinforced the LIO.

✅ Election monitoring: Counter-institutionalization weakened the LIO.

✅ Why? The outcomes depended on who led the process (leadership) and why they contested existing norms (source of dissatisfaction).

📢 New Publication! 🌎📖

How do South American states challenge or reinforce the Liberal International Order (LIO)?@gioagostinis.bsky.social & I analyse regional counter-institutionalization in migration governance and election monitoring—two domains deeply tied to the LIO’s core political principles

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The chapter is part of my research project POLIM, funded by the Province of Bolzano/Bozen which was done at @euracminorities.bsky.social and Eurac's Centre for Migration and Diversity

EU-Latin America Relations: Analyzing the Dynamics of Bi-regional Migration Governance Who are the main actors that lead the EU-Latin America interregional agenda in human mobility? What are their interests? What are the main patterns of interaction between them? This chapter addresses ...

The chapter is available here link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... - otherwise write to us and we send it to you :)
Check out the whole Handbook on EU-Latin America relations amazingly edited by @jasanahuja.bsky.social and Jorge Domínguez

- We find relevant subregional differences between Central American and Caribbean countries, whose interests in the migration agenda are centered around relations with the US, and South American countries, with stronger interdependencies with the EU

- Latin America’s ambivalence between alignment with and resistance to EU proposals and

- EU’s interest in irregular migration, returns, and security issues

EU-Latin America Relations: Analyzing the Dynamics of Bi-regional Migration Governance Who are the main actors that lead the EU-Latin America interregional agenda in human mobility? What are their interests? What are the main patterns of interaction between them? This chapter addresses ...

*New publication*

In this book chapter, Soledad Castillo Jara, and I study EU-Latin America relations on migration. By looking at the main actors, their interests and the main patterns of interaction between them, we suggest that the interregional agenda is characterized by

*Webinar* 17 December 2024, 15:00-16:00 CET
Innovative Methodologies for Migration Research, with Matthew Bird and Diego Caballero-Vélez. Webinar series “Diversity Matters”, Center for Migration and Diversity of Eurac Research. You can register here:
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