Tuesday Seminar Series

This event is presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs .

While territorial disputes are historically the primary catalyst for interstate conflict, South American states have defied global trends by consistently managing grievances short of large-scale war. In this talk, Nicole Jenne interrogates the domestic...

Coming between Peru’s first-round election and runoff, this panel will offer timely analysis of what the initial results reveal about Peruvian society and politics and what might unfold in the decisive second round. Speakers will help us understand voter...

In the last decade, public discontent has surged across Latin America, fueling protests, reshaping party systems, and challenging traditional political orders. Drawing on their own research, panelists will unpack the deepening divides between citizens and...

Due to inclement weather, this event will now take place fully remotely. This panel will bring together leading scholars to examine how much has truly changed in Venezuela since the 2026 U.S. intervention and the capture of Nicolás Maduro. Panelists will...

Coups in Latin America are often treated as Cold War artifacts. But some of the patterns that produced them are still active. Building on Coups d'État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982 (Cambridge, 2025), the editors extend their analysis to the present...

This talk explains an extraordinary event: how Brazil achieved one of the most successful cases of decarbonization ever recorded, and how those results were later undone. Drawing on archival work, in-depth interviews, and quantitative data, the talk...

Why are legislatures in some authoritarian regimes more powerful than in others? Why does their influence on policies and politics vary across dictatorships? Alejandro Bonvecchi and Emilia Simison answer these questions in Lawmaking under Authoritarianism...