Research Areas
The following are the broad areas of research in which staff of the Institute engage. Specific areas of staff interests are shown below each category.
- Globalisation, social justice, and environmental change
- Democratisation
- Social policy
- Political sociology
- US presidency
- International Relations
- Race and ethnicity
- Political history
- The Caribbean and its diasporas
- History of the Americas
- Political economy
- Human rights, transitional justice and memory
Globalisation, social justice, and environmental change
- Workers' rights in the context of free-trade agreements (Kevin Middlebrook)
- Labour rights campaigns (Kevin Middlebrook)
- Comparative Latin American economic growth and social development (Ame Bergés)
- Governance and accountability (Ame Bergés)
- Political economy of state-formation (Ame Bergés)
- Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in Latin America (Graham Woodgate)
- Globalisation and natural resource use and conservation in the Americas (especially forest resources and biofuels production) (Graham Woodgate)
- Ecotourism in the Americas (Graham Woodgate)
- Agroecology and food sovereignty in the Americas (Graham Woodgate)
- Environmental social movements and direct action environmentalism (Graham Woodgate)
- Gender and Development (Maxine Molyneux)
- Latin American Development (Maxine Molyneux)
- Migration (Maxine Molyneux)
- Political cleavages (Kevin Middlebrook)
- Conservative parties and democratisation (Kevin Middlebrook)
- Gender, Rights and Democracy in Latin America (Maxine Molyneux)
- Human and social capital (Ame Bergés)
- Poverty, Inequality and Social Protection (Maxine Molyneux)
- Comparative Social Policy (Maxine Molyneux)
- Poverty and Social Protection in Latin America (Maxine Molyneux)
- Citizenship and Rights in Latin America (Maxine Molyneux)
- Gender, Politics and Development (Maxine Molyneux)
- Leadership skills (Iwan Morgan)
- Foreign policy leadership (Iwan Morgan)
- Economic policy leadership (Iwan Morgan)
- The President as party leader (Iwan Morgan)
- US foreign policy (Tim Lynch)
- US-Latin American relations (Kevin Middlebrook)
- Foreign policy analysis (Tim Lynch)
- IR theory (Tim Lynch)
- Indigenous creation myths, land use and land rights (Graham Woodgate)
- Black Power and the state in the Caribbean (Kate Quinn)
- Black Power and the state in the Caribbean (Kate Quinn)
- Environmental policy (Graham Woodgate)
The Caribbean and its diasporas
- Black Power and the state in the Caribbean (Kate Quinn)
- Economic history of the Dominican Republic (Ame Bergés)
- Economic history of the Dominican Republic (Ame Bergés)
- Environmental histories (Graham Woodgate)
- Socioenvironmental coevolution (Graham Woodgate)
- Black Power and the state in the Caribbean (Kate Quinn)
- Latin American Women’s Movements (Maxine Molyneux)
- State-labour relations in Latin America (Kevin Middlebrook)
- Comparative Latin American economic growth and social development (Ame Bergés)
- Governance and accountability (Ame Bergés)
- Political economy of state-formation (Ame Bergés)
- Political economy of natural resources / political ecologies of the Americas (Graham Woodgate)
- Agrarian reforms in Latin America (Graham Woodgate)
- US budgetary issues (Iwan Morgan)
- The Washington Consensus and its consequent adaptations (Iwan Morgan)
- The international political economy of hemispheric free trade (Iwan Morgan)
- US and Latin American current account deficits (Iwan Morgan)
- Labor issues in the era of free trade (Iwan Morgan)
- Political Economy and Gender Relations in the LAC region (Maxine Molyneux)
Human rights, transitional justice and memory
- The Politics of Social Justice and Development in Latin America (Maxine Molyneux)