Event Date: November 29, 2016 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: FSS 4004, 120 University Private

Presented by CIPS and IPEN

In terms of natural resource politics in developing countries, what are the regional dimensions of what happens at the national level? Taking Latin America (2000–2015) as an example, regional trends have substantial effects on national policies, moderating more radical experiments and radicalizing the more status-quo polities towards an approximate average. This “implicit regional consensus” has simultaneously strengthened state assertiveness on how natural resources can be managed while setting clear limits on what can be obtained from that policy.

Pablo Heidrich is an international political economist specializing in natural resources and development in Latin America, international trade policy-making in financial crises, and comparative regionalism between East Asia and Latin America. His work has been published in the Latin American Policy Journal, Integration & Trade, and Foreign Policy en Espanol. He is also the co-editor of Resource Nationalism as Development Policy in Latin America (Routledge, 2016). He is currently at Carleton University in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy. Previously, he was a researcher at the North–South Institute and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Argentina.