Pardee Center Publishes Task Force Report on ‘Latin America 2060’

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published the report of the 2010 Pardee Center Task Force titled “Latin America 2060: Consolidation or Crisis?” The report will be officially launched at the annual meeting of the New England Council of Latin America Studies (NECLAS) on Saturday, November 5 at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

This report is the outcome of the Pardee Center Task Force on Latin America 2060 convened in November 2010 by Pardee Center Faculty Fellows David Scott Palmer, Professor of International Relations and Political Science and Director of Latin America Studies, and Carlos Blanco, Visiting Professor of International Relations, at Boston University. Task Force members include leading scholars and practitioners from Latin America and the U.S.

The publication includes original essays by the Task Force members covering five key areas that are most likely to set the parameters of the region’s future, including: 1) Economic growth and development; 2) Governance, democracy, and the state; 3) Environmental sustainability; 4) Role of outside actors; 5) Socio-cultural capacity. The concluding chapter offers policy recommendations drawn from the individual analyses to suggest concrete steps that could be taken to deal with the issues discussed.

Four members of the Task Force – Prof. Palmer and Prof. Blanco along with Prof. Ann Helwege of BU’s International Relations Department and BU Political Science doctoral candidate Oya Yegen – are on a panel at the NECLAS meeting and will introduce the report during their session, which is also titled “Latin America 2060: Consolidation or Crisis?”

An electronic version of the report may be downloaded from the publications library on this web site and hard copies may be requested via email to pardee@bu.edu.