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.
Other perceptions of China: Views from Africa, Europe, and Latin America
There’s a lot of distrust among opposition voters on the fairness of the vote [in Venezuela], given the overwhelming presence of government in the media and the resources they can devote to campaigning, compared to the opposition. On the other hand, the government has to worry about abstention on its side because its level of popular support is quite low.
Improving global drug policy: UNGASS 2016 and beyond
Intertwined economic and political fortunes in the southern cone: The future of Brazil and Argentina
Latin America already has two major regional development banks, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Corporación Andina de Fomento, and most countries can also borrow from international capital markets, so joining [the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank] does not appear to be as urgent as it may be to other founding members.