Jorge Heine - Role for Latin America In U.S.-China Competition?

**Polaris Live is re-broadcasting this important conversation with a prominent former Chilean Cabinet Member who is now on the faculty of Boston University. His work has and continues to focus on the role of the Global South**

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Ambassador Jorge Heine is a lawyer, IR scholar and diplomat with a special interest in the international politics of the Global South. He is currently a non-resident Wilson Center Global Fellow at The Wilson Center in Washington D.C., He has served as ambassador of Chile to China India , ( South Africa (1994-1999), and as a Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government. His prestigious positions include CIGI Professor of Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, a Guggenheim Fellow; a Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford University; a United Nations Research Fellow at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC);


He is on the editorial board of Diplomacy & Foreign Policy, World Affairs, Estudios Internacionales, Pensamiento Propio and the South African Journal of International Affairs. He has published fifteen books, including 21st Century Democracy Promotion in the Americas (with B. Weiffen, and The Dark Side of Globalization (with R.Thakur, UN University Press, 2011), and some 100 journal articles and book chapters. An active commentator on current affairs, he is frequently interviewed by international media and has written for The New York Times, the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune.