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Projects

• Institutions for Sustainable Peace
  The Leibniz Gemeinschaft will fund an network on "Institutions for Sustainable Peace - Comparing Institutional Configurations for Divided Societies" with internationally renowned partners. The three year project starts 5/2012 and is coordinated by Dr. Matthias Basedau, Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach and PD Dr. Andreas Mehler.

• WGL-Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation funds the research project: "Judicial (In)dependence in New Democracies. Courts, Presidents and Legislatures in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa". Head of the project is Dr. Mariana Llanos.

• DFG funds cooperation on "New Frontiers on Federalism Research"
  The German Research Foundation (DFG) has granted funds from its program "Initiation and Intensification of Bilateral Cooperation" to promote the collaboration between GIGA and the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), São Paulo on "New Frontiers on Federalism Research: Rethinking Multi-level Party Politics in the Americas and Beyond". The research joint initiative is going to be co-funded by FAPESP (São Paulo Research Agency). In the context of this cooperation an international event will be hosted in São Paulo on the subject. Subsequently an application to DFG and FAPESP for long-term funding will be prepared. The applicants are Dr. Jorge Gordin (GIGA)and Prof. George Avelino Filho (CEPESP, FGV).
  

• Finanzierungslösungen für Innovation und Nachhaltige Entwicklung im Energiebereich. (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hein, Daniela Garcia Sanchez)

• Persistenz und Wandel von Neopatrimonialismus in verschiedenen Nicht-OECD-Regionen (Karsten Bechle)

Conferences/Events/Lectures

• "GIGA Forum" Lecture Series

• ECPR Summer School on Latin American Politics
  Next ECPR Summer School on Latin American Politics, third edition: "The Outcomes of Democratic Regimes" will take place at GIGA in Hamburg, 26 June - 5 July 2013

• Lecture by Victoria Sanford, PHD (Lehman College)
  "Breaking the Wall of Impunity in Guatemala The Genocide Trial of Ex-Dictator Efrain Rios Montt". 25 February 2013, 5:30-7:00 p.m., GIGA, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg, room 519 (5th floor)

• GIGA/EU-LAC-Seminar on 17-18 September 2012
  The EU-LAC Foundation and the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies are co-organising a one and a half-day seminar entitled "New Grounds for the Relations between the EU, Latin America and the Caribbean – Towards a Relevant Partnership". The seminar will involve high-level experts from the academic, diplomatic, and business sectors and will seek to identify both challenges and opportunities that result from the current global situation as well as the circumstances of both regions. This way, the seminar will develop elements that contribute to a new basis of the bi-regional relationship, in an effort that seeks to be just the beginning of a continuous analytical and reflective process in this area. (Publication of the proceedings of the seminar)

• In advance of the next EU–Latin America/Carribean Summit in Santiago de Chile, the first European–Latin American academic summit is to take place on 22–23 January 2013. GIGA acting President Detlef Nolte was invited to attend the first preparatory meeting at the Institut des Amériques in Paris on 7 June 2012. Approximately 80 representatives of universities and research institutes in Europe and Latin American participated. An additional preparatory meeting is planned for November 2012 in Lima. Preparations for the academic summit are being coordinated by the Institut des Amériques in Paris and CLEARE in Santiago de Chile. The GIGA is part of the preparatory group

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New publications

• GIGA Focus Lateinamerika (German-language version only)
  Nr. 2, 2013: Die EU und Lateinamerika: Partnerschaft auf Augenhöhe? (Susanne Gratius und Detlef Nolte)

• GIGA Focus International Edition English
  No. 6, 2012: The Obama Administration and Latin America: A Disappointing First Term (Laurence Whitehead and Detlef Nolte)

• GIGA Working Papers
  Convergence, Divergence and a Complex Interplay: Chile and the International and Transnational Anti-Corruption Campaign (Malte Gephart)

• GIGA Journal Family:
  Journal of Politics in Latin America, Vol 5, No 1 (2013)

Nolte, Detlef, and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor (2012): New Constitutionalism in Latin America. Promises and Practices, Oxon/New York: Ashgate (Flyer)

Kurtenbach, Sabine, Rüdiger Blumör und Sebastian Huhn (2010): Jugendliche in gewaltsamen Lebenswelten. Wege aus den Kreisläufen der Gewalt, Reihe: EINE Welt der Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden, Baden-Baden: Nomos (Rezension)

• Argueta, Otto (2012): Private Security in Guatemala: Pathway to Its Proliferation, in: Bulletin of Latin American Research, 31, 3, 320-335

• Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut (2012): Bolivia´s New Constitution: Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?, in: European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 90, 3-22

• Flemes, Daniel, Dirk Nabers and Detlef Nolte (2012): Macht, Führung und Regionale Ordnung, Weltregionen im Wandel, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 296 pp. (Flyer)

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Personnel matters

• Bert Hoffmann, the acting director of the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies, has been elected to the Advisory Committee of the Institut des Amériques (IdA) in Paris for the next four years. The IdA is France's central academic institution for interdisciplinary studies on North and South America, bringing together universities and research institutions from around the country. The Advisory Committee is made up of 25 renowned scholars, of which 8 are located abroad.

Other Updates

• President and Executive Director of the new EU-Latinamerica/Caribbean Foundation visit GIGA
  On 7 November the opening ceremony for the new Hamburg-based EU-Latinamerica/Caribbean Foundation was held. The next day, the President of the Foundation, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, and its Executive Director, Jorge Valdez, visited GIGA for talks on future cooperation possibilities with GIGA President Prof. Dr. Detlef Nolte and the Acting Director of the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies, Dr. Bert Hoffmann.

  La Presidenta y el Director ejecutivo de la nueva Fundación Unión Europea - América Latina y el Caribe (EULAC) de visita en el GIGA
  El día 7 de noviembre se inauguró con un acto festivo la nueva Fundación Unión Europea- América Latina y el Caribe (EULAC) con sede en Hamburgo. Al día siguiente tanto la Presidenta de dicha Fundación, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, como el Director ejecutivo de la misma, Jorge Valdez Carrillo, visitaron nuestro Instituto. Aquí se reunieron con el Presidente interino del GIGA, Prof. Dr. Detlef Nolte, y el Director interino del GIGA Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos (ILAS), Dr. Bert Hoffmann, con el propósito de establecer mecanismos de cooperación a corto plazo.

  (r.-l.) Detlef Nolte, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Jorge Valdez, Bert Hoffmann

  Detlef Nolte and Benita Ferrero-Waldner at the GIGA

Informationen to the EU-Latin American Foundation in Hamburg (in german language):
Auswärtiges Amt: EU-Lateinamerika-Stiftung nimmt Arbeit in Hamburg auf
Senatskanzlei Hamburg: Bewerbung um den Sitz der EU-Lateinamerika-Karibik-Stiftung erfolgreich

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