Browsing by Author "Erlandsen, Matthias"
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Item Chile. History(2022) Erlandsen, MatthiasThe 20th century was an era widely known as an incubator for coups d’e ́tat and authoritarian governments throughout Latin America. These coincided with periods of social turmoil and unstable economies in the region. Chile as well as 12 other Latin American countries experienced military dictatorships between the 1970s and early 2000s.Item Diplomacia pública(y digital) en una potencia intermedia: reenfoques para una mejor actuación de Chile al 2030(2021) Erlandsen, MatthiasDespite the fact that Chile's position in the world has radically improved in the last thirty years, the post-dictatorial international project is exhausted. Today it is necessary to move towards a new cycle of foreign policy. In "New Voices of Foreign Policy: Chile and the World in the Post-Consensual Era," an equal cast of a new generation of internationalists offers, with creativity and rigor, a bold progressive agenda for the coming decades. Starting from an entrepreneurial diplomacy, a feminist, plurinational, more democratic and decentralized foreign policy is proposed. In this new stage of its history, the country needs to recover its multilateral and Latin American vocation, position Human Rights as a hallmark of its international presence, and bet on becoming a turquoise power in the context of the climate crisis. "New voices of foreign policy" makes a substantive contribution to the growing public debate about Chile's place in the world and to the reduction of generational, knowledge and gender gaps in foreign policy.Item Madame President, Madame Ambassador? Women Presidents and Gender Parity in Latin America’s Diplomatic Services(2021) Erlandsen, Matthias; Hernández-Garza, María Fernanda; Schulz, Carsten-AndreasThis study focuses on the gendered nature of ambassadorial appointments. Analyzing the diplomatic services of ten Latin American countries between 2000 and 2018, we examine the factors that explain the designation of women to ambassadorships. More especially, we are interested in whether the election of women to the presidency in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Costa Rica had an impact on the gender gap at the top of those countries’ foreign services. Drawing on an original dataset on diplomatic appointments, we show that the presence of women ambassadors has increased only marginally over the past two decades. Furthermore, multivariate regression analysis demonstrates that women presidents on the left have (partially and temporarily) corrected the gender gap in their foreign services through political appointments, provided they had the discretionary powers to do so. Our findings suggest that the impact of women-led presidencies is conditional on the chief executive’s vested interest in gender parity and the scope of presidents’ prerogatives to appoint ambassadors. In so doing, the study contributes to debates on the descriptive underrepresentation of women in executive positions and the gender gap in diplomacy.