Rethinking the Global Order: Latin America, China, and the U.S. Amid Transforming Economic and Political Paradigms

Rethinking the Global Order: Latin America, China, and the U.S. Amid Transforming Economic and Political Paradigms

Date and Time

March 27, 2026
10:15AM - 01:00PM EDT

Location

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010)

1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
Registration is required.

Rethinking the Global Order: Latin America, China, and the U.S. Amid Transforming Economic and Political Paradigms

This symposium brings together leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on how rapidly changing economic, technological, and social dynamics are reshaping the global landscape—within nations as much as across them—and the implications for Latin America.

We invite you to join us for a conversation that positions Latin America not at the periphery of a new global divide, but as an active and strategic participant in a world undergoing profound change.

For more information, including speaker bios, please visit the symposium website.

Keynote

  • Tino Cuéllar, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Justice, Supreme Court of California.

Moderator

  • Marisol Argueta, Senior Director and Head of Latin America, World Economic Forum; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador.

Panelists

  • Pedro Henrique Batista Barbosa, Diplomat, Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; PhD, Renmin University of China.
  • Rebecca Bill Chavez, President and CEO, Inter-American Dialogue.
  • Enrique Dussel Peters, Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); Coordinator, Center for Chinese-Mexican Studies (CECHIMEX), UNAM; Coordinator, Academic Network of Latin America and the Caribbean on China (Red ALC-China); Member, National System of Researchers (SNI), Level III.
  • Mark Wu, Faculty Associate. Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.

Opening & Closing Remarks

  • Steven Levitsky, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Government; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.

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