Peter Birle holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Mainz (1995). Since 2001, he has headed the research department of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin and taught at Freie Universität Berlin. From April to September 2023, he was the German Director in Presence of the international joint project Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America) based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Claudia Zilla is a Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, which she joined in 2005. From 2012 to 2019 she headed the SWP's research division The Americas. In 2014/2015 she was a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. In 2002/2003 she coordinated the postgraduate programme 'European Political Studies' at the Heidelberg Centre for Latin America of the University of Heidelberg in Santiago de Chile. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Heidelberg.

The Editors and Contributors

Introduction

Peter Birle and Claudia Zilla

PART I: Regional and International Dynamics

1 Changes in the Global Economy and New Challenges for Development Policy in Latin America

Andrés Musacchio

2 New Regional Dynamics in Latin America or Old Wine in New Bottles?

Detlef Nolte

3 Electoral Cycles and Presidentialism. Advantages or Disadvantages for Latin American Regionalism?

Susanne Gratius

4 Why Latin American Regional Democracy Clauses Have Fallen Short of Expectations

Brigitte Weiffen

5 Latin American Regionalism: From Contestation to Depoliticisation

José Antonio Sanahuja

PART II: The Role of External Actors

6 Latin America and the United States in the New World Disorder: Hierarchy, Heterarchy and Multiplicity

Jochen Kleinschmidt

7 China in Latin America - Strategic Engagement and Patient Diplomacy

Benjamin Creutzfeldt

8 Latin America-Russia Relations: The War in Ukraine as a Turning Point?

Alexandra Sitenko

9 The European Union and Latin America. Towards a Renewal of the Bi-regional Partnership?

Peter Birle

PART III: The Foreign Policies of Latin American Governments

10 Reshaping Priorities: Latin American Foreign Policies in a Shifting Global Order

Federico Merke

11 Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America: The approaches of Mexico, Chile and Colombia

Claudia Zilla

12 The International Insertion Strategies of Latin America between Autonomy and Structural Constraints

Gian Luca Gardini

13 Argentina's Foreign Policy under President Alberto Fernández (2019-23): Legitimacy, Internal Differences and Foreign Debt

María Cecilia Míguez

14 Brazilian Foreign Policy beyond Itamaraty's Insulation and Presidential Diplomacy: Intermestic Processes under the Bolsonaro and the Third Lula Administrations

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann

15 Chile One Year into the Government of Gabriel Boric: Foreign Policy and International Relations in a New Political Period

Raúl Bernal-Meza and Sergio González Pizarro

16 Colombia's Foreign Policy Discourses under Gustavo Petro: The Formulation of a New National Role with a Progressive Populist Approach

Eduardo Pastrana Buelvas and Diego Vera

17 The Perils of Multiple Foreign Policies - Mexico's Diminishing Presence in World Politics

Günther Maihold

PART IV: Conclusions

Concluding Remarks: Latin America's International Options in the Age of Trump 2.0

Peter Birle and Claudia Zilla