Harold Trinkunas
Harold Trinkunas was a nonresident senior fellow in the Latin America Initiative in the Foreign Policy program, and is the interim co-director and a senior research scholar for the Center for International Security and Cooperation of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. His research focuses on Latin American politics, particularly on issues related to foreign policy, governance, and security. He has studied the role of armed nonstate actors in local governance, Brazil’s emergence as a major power, and Latin American contributions to global governance on issues including energy policy, drug policy reform, and Internet governance. Trinkunas has also written on terrorism financing, borders, and ungoverned spaces.
A conversation with President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras
An assessment of Colombia’s anti-drug policies amid the peace talks with the FARC
There’s a real sense the U.S.-Latin American relationship had been a bit distant and now has new possibilities. The one thing that could spoil that is the situation in Venezuela, so the administration is looking for ways to manage that.
Converging on the future of global Internet governance
China would do well to examine the experiences of previous international investors for lessons, good and bad, and consider adopting corporate social responsibility practices that meet global [environmental] standards. This will help to minimize friction over Chinese investments in [Latin America].