South American Policy Regionalism: Drivers and Barriers to International Problem Solving

Contrasting three schools of thought in international relations, South American Policy Regionalism introduces the idea of international policy regionalism as a framework for informed debate about international policy-sector interactions in a regional space, and demonstrates the relevancy of international relations theory.

Leslie Elliott Armijo holds research affiliations with Simon Fraser University (SIS) and Boston University (GDP Center) and has been a Visiting Scholar in Rio de Janeiro (PUC), New Delhi (CPR), Berlin (FUB), and São Paulo (USP). She is (co)author or editor of The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft (2018), Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging Economies Survived the Global Financial Crisis (2015), The Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers (2014), Debating the Global Financial Architecture (2002), Financial Globalization and Democracy in Emerging Markets (1999), and fifty odd articles or chapters on ethics, democracy, growth, and international politics in Latin America and India.

Markus Fraundorfer is Lecturer in Global Governance at the University of Leeds and the program director of the MA Global Governance & Diplomacy. He examines current transformation processes in global governance and previously researched Brazil’s role in regional and global governance. He worked at the University of São Paulo and was a visiting fellow at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and the University of Brasília. His previous books include Brazil’s Emerging Role in Global Governance: Health, Food Security and Bioenergy (2015), Rethinking Global Democracy in Brazil (2018), and Global Governance in the Age of the Anthropocene (2022).

Sybil D. Rhodes directs the Department of Political and Juridical Sciences and the Foreign Policy Observatory at the Universidad del Cema in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her areas of expertise include the politics of international public policy and multilateral cooperation, particularly in the policy arenas of migration, citizenship and human rights, as well as infrastructure and consumer protection.