Heine Featured as Lead Article in Foreign Policy’s Summer Issue
Ambassador Jorge Heine, Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was featured as the lead piece in the summer issue of Foreign Policy Magazine for the article he collaborated on with Thiago Rodrigues, Professor of Security Studies at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro state, “Brazil is Ukraine’s Best Bet for Peace.”
Ambassador Heine and Professor Rodrigues discuss how many Southern Hemisphere countries, especially Brazil, are practicing non-alliance in the Ukraine War, which has left many countries puzzled. Heine and Rodrigues elaborate on how this actually puts Brazil in a position of power to end the war in Ukraine.
Since Brazil is in this neutral position, they have been put in a place where they are capable of facilitating peace talks between Russia and Ukraine while including other countries that have become involved. And that is exactly what they have begun doing. Brazil’s President Lula, has already been in contact with both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Read the full article here.
Ambassador Jorge Heine is a Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He has served as ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017), to India (2003-2007), and to South Africa (1994-1999), and as a Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government. Read more about Ambassador Heine on his Pardee School faculty profile.