Call for papers: Latin American Economic Review

Latin American Economic Review aims to be the leading general interest journal on topics relevant to Latin America. The journal welcomes high-quality theoretical and quantitative papers on economic, social and political-economy issues with a regional focus.
LAER is fully sponsored by the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) and is published under the SpringerOpen brand.

Read the first freely available articles 

• Editorial: Greetings from the Editor-in-Chief Juan Rosellón 
• Real exchange rate and manufacturing growth in Latin America Paulo Henrique Vaz, Werner Baer 
• Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Edward B. Barbier 
• What determines adult cognitive skills? Influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala Jere R. Behrman, John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Emily L. Behrman, Reynaldo Martorell, Manuel Ramírez-Zea, Aryeh D. Stein 
• Trend-cycle decomposition for Peruvian GDP: application of an alternative method Ángel Guillén, Gabriel Rodríguez 

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Call for conference papers: FLACSO-ISA Joint International Conference, Buenos Aires

Global and Regional Powers in a Changing World

• University of Buenos Aires, School of Economics, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Global and Regional Powers in a Changing World
• The deadline for paper/panel submissions is Tuesday, October 1, 2013.
• Graduate Student Workshops

July 23rd-25th 2014

Co-hosted by FLACSO

The increasing gravitation of emerging economies is changing the landscape of international politics. This has implications for the possibilities of a new global order where emerging powers have begun to engage in the construction of new norms, governance institutions, development agendas and citizenship practices. Likewise, the context of regionalism and regionalization processes is also being transformed with the global projection of emerging powers. China, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa are increasingly acquiring pivotal roles in the articulation of regional and global dynamics. At the same time, traditional powers became more focused on pressing domestic and regional challenges due to the financial and economic crisis that started in 2008.  These changes and reconfigurations constitute a new terrain of innovation, collaboration and dispute of an increasingly wider scope of policies, economic interests, identities and sources of legitimization of the international order.

The FLACSO-ISA joint conference will seek to improve our understanding of global and regional reconfigurations of power across several dimensions. Does the rise of emerging powers translate into global structural changes? Is there a new emerging regional architecture of world politics? What are the changes and continuities? How are these regional powers shifting North-South relations? What type of South-South relations are these emerging powers encouraging? What are the regional implications and the resulting configurations in global-regional dynamics? How are traditional powers reacting to these changes in world politics? What are the main challenges of these transformations in terms of development, foreign policy, trade, finance, sustainability, human rights, war, peace, sub-national, regional and supra-national arrangements, public and private authorities and the role of transnational social and economic actors as agents of international politics?

The Graduate Student Workshops provide an opportunity for graduate students and post-docs to present their research in a small-group panel setting with detailed feedback from senior scholars. They are intended to offer professional development and networking opportunities for graduate students and post-docs.