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SUMMARY:Quintijn Kat (Ashoka University\; Warwick): "Latin America shapin
 g US hegemony from below: deference and defiance in trade and counternar
 cotics policy"
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DESCRIPTION:Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin Ameri
 can and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series:\n\nWed 6 November 20
 24\, 5pm (UK time). This event will take place in Samuel Alexander Build
 ing\, room A214. It can also be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860
 231166\n\nAbstract: 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 cur
 rent book project\, I challenge this by demonstrating that Latin America
 n states had and applied substantial agency in their interactions with t
 he US hegemon during the 1990s and 2000s and\, surprisingly\, in two are
 as of great importance to Washington: trade and counternarcotics policy.
  Not only did these states manage to change their own situation\; they a
 lso affected the wider US hegemonic order in Latin America through defer
 ence to or defiance of the United States. I support this argument with f
 our 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 de
 cline in Latin America over the last two decades and for theories of heg
 emony in international relations more broadly.\n\nQuintijn Kat is Assist
 ant Professor of International Relations\, Ashoka University\, and visit
 ing professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies\, University of Warwi
 ck\, UK.
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LOCATION:A214\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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