Authors: Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann (PUC-Rio) Babatunde Fagbayibo (University of Pretoria) Artur Boya (PUC-Rio)
In order to strengthen the links between Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Africa in the topics of democracy and human rights it is important to understand how these countries have interacted (i.e. cooperated, coordinated and aligned positions) about these topics…
Authors: Caitlin Mulholland (PUC-Rio) Gilberto Martins de Almeida (PUC-Rio)
Digital transformation has established itself as one of the main drivers of economic and social development in the 21st century, redefining the dynamics of production, consumption, and governance on a global scale. Digital transformation refers to the “process of adoption of digital tools and methods by…
Authors: Monica Herz Nizar Messari Isa Mendes Dora Meireles
In this chapter we seek to understand the reality and the possibilities of cooperation between Africa and Latin America as regions in the sphere of security. We depart from the definition of security relations as those that involve the threat or use of force related to…
Authors Alejandra Kern
The relationship between Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has historically been characterized by discontinuity, following a pattern of “peaks and valleys,” as described by Lechini and Morasso (2021). Although the early 21st century brought renewed optimism for deepening South–South Cooperation (SSC) between the two regions, the political shift toward…
Authors: Flavia de Campos Mello (PUC-SP) Terra Friedrich Budini (PUC-SP) Larissa Ferreira Lima (UNESP/UNICAMP/PUC-SP)
Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Africa have long been shaped by a set of structural affinities and ideological convergences. These commonalities are evident in the environmental and climate domains, where both regions articulate a shared space of…
Authors: Beatriz Nascimento · Belén Herrero Unitaid/ WHO · FLACSO Argentina / CONICET 2026
The world is traversing a multiplicity of interlinked crises—climate change, the increase in refugee and migration flows, the intensification of geopolitical rivalries, and the weakening of the liberal multilateral order—which highlight the impossibility of any State facing, in isolation, threats that…