Rising Brazil: The Choices Of A New Global Power
What should we expect from a newly powerful Brazil? Does the country have the capacity and leadership to be a central actor in addressing critical global and regional problems?
Lisa Viscidi, director of the Energy, Climate Change & Extractive Industries Program, spoke to the Energy Working Group of the Elcano Institute in Madrid about clean energy auctions in Latin America. Viscidi shared an analysis of auction design and results in six Latin American and Caribbean countries.
What should we expect from a newly powerful Brazil? Does the country have the capacity and leadership to be a central actor in addressing critical global and regional problems?
President Lula da Silva triumphantly announced that he and his Turkish counterpart had persuaded Iran to shift a major part of its uranium enrichment program overseas—an objective that had previously eluded the US and other world powers. Washington, however, was not applauding.
The question remains if Mexico has achieved a degree of institutional development consistent with its participation in those organizations.