Latin American Security Challenges Amidst Authoritarian Populism Series

Panel 4:  Tackling State Capacity Amidst Insecurity and Inequality Challenges

Speakers:

William Maloney, Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank.

Kent Eaton, Distinguished Professor of Politics, University of California Santa Cruz.

Hillel Soifer, Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University.

Introduction by Steve Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government; Director of DRCLAS, Harvard University.

Moderated by Claudia Lopez, Harvard 2024 Advance Leadership Initiative Fellow, Mayor of Bogota 2020-2023.

About the Series

This seminar intends to analyze potential policy alternatives to deal more assertively with the challenges of security and justice provision in Latin America. Assertiveness in two senses: first, as effectiveness to the citizens’ legitimate demands of protection against violence, impunity, and uncertainty, and second as feasibility to offer rule of law solutions able to outcompete populist authoritarian alternatives. In other words, what scholars’ research and practitioners’ experience can say about the set of policies and proposals that can effectively deal with violence, impunity, and uncertainty, and at the same time outcompete populist candidates’ mano dura policies. 

Presented in collaboration with the Center for International Development  and the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University.