Quintijn Kat (Ashoka University; Warwick): "Latin America shaping US hegemony from below: deference and defiance in trade and counternarcotics policy"
| Dates: | 6 November 2024 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Quintijn Kat |
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Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series:
Wed 6 November 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will take place in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can also be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166
Abstract: Do weaker states have agency in hegemonic order and can they affect change under hegemony? Dominant International Relations (IR) theories respond to both these questions in the negative. In my current book project, I challenge this by demonstrating that Latin American states had and applied substantial agency in their interactions with the US hegemon during the 1990s and 2000s and, surprisingly, in two areas of great importance to Washington: trade and counternarcotics policy. Not only did these states manage to change their own situation; they also affected the wider US hegemonic order in Latin America through deference to or defiance of the United States. I support this argument with four case studies of US relations with Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, and use these to develop a theoretical framework that enables the incorporation of "subordinate-state agency" as a variable in hegemonic order. Understanding when and why Latin American states defer to or defy the United States has great implications for our understanding of US decline in Latin America over the last two decades and for theories of hegemony in international relations more broadly.
Quintijn Kat is Assistant Professor of International Relations, Ashoka University, and visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick, UK.
Speaker
Quintijn Kat
Role: Assistant Professor of International Relations
Organisation: Ashoka University
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A214
Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
