Valdai Club

Victor Jeifets

Lazar Jeifets

Sung-Hoon Jeh

Pankaj Kumar Jha

Josef Janning

Yang Jiechi

Marc Julienne

Dhruva Jaishankar

Kim Jin-hyun

Lazar Jeifets

Russian Federation

Professor at the Department for American Studies of St. Petersburg State University

Materials

Bolivia: Not Just Another Latin American Coup

The fall of Morales opened a fork in the road between the path to democracy, and another to authoritarianism, instability and violence. And now it seems unlikely that the country has confidently set foot on the first path.

No Arab Spring in Latin America

Latin America was once named the “seething continent” (continente en erupción). Current events, including the dissolution of parliament and dual power in Peru, the on-going confrontation between the government and parliament in Venezuela, as well as mass protests and the state of emergency in Ecuador, make us wonder if we are not on the verge of a new “Spring”; not an Arab one, but a Latin American one.

The Venezuela Crisis: Mistakes and Misunderstandings

Venezuela’s historical traditions are among the underlying causes of the current standoff and are frequently overlooked as such. The decision by Juan Guaidó and his colleagues to proclaim him the country’s interim president on January 23 is not the first time this has happened.