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Bruce Jones
David Steven
Alex Evans

State Capture and Inequality

State capture is a type of systematic corruption whereby narrow interest groups take control of the institutions and processes that make public policy, excluding other parts of the public whose interests those institutions are supposed to serve. State capture is often associated with the first decade of transition in the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Eastern Europe. State capture has also spread to many countries that had once seemed to be resilient democracies or, in the case of transition countries, on a secure path toward democratization. This research paper goes in-depth on the mechanisms and impacts of state capture, impact on inequalities, and lessons learned from two case studies (Brazil and South Africa).

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Dec 17, 2021
Elizabeth David-Barrett
Brazil, South Africa
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

The US and the international power structure: Reviewing 'Still Ours to Lead'

In Still Ours to Lead: America, Rising Powers, and the Tension Between Rivalry and Restraint, Brookings Senior Fellow and my CIC colleague Bruce Jones sets out a compelling analysis of the present global power structure.

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Jun 19, 2014
China, East Asia, Europe, Brazil, United States, South Asia
Emerging Powers, International Security

Still Ours to Lead

America, Rising Powers, and the Tension between Rivalry and Restraint

"What’s become clear to me is that while the rising powers--principally China, India, Brazil, but also Turkey, Indonesia, Korea and others--want to increase their influence and protect their interests, the United States still occupies a central place in their thinking and their strategies. And only the U.S. can help all these players forge an effective international order." —Bruce Jones

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Mar 17, 2014
Bruce Jones
China, East Asia, Europe, Brazil, United States
Emerging Powers, International Security

Is 2014 the Year of Latin America? Why Latin America and the Caribbean Matter for the Post-2015 Negotiations

CIC on Global Development,

NASA World Wind

Latin America could emerge as one of the most influential regions in the negotiations on what will follow the Millennium Development Goals when they expire in 2015.

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Dec 12, 2013
Alejandra Kubitschek Bujones
Latin America, Brazil
Post 2015 Development
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Brazil Feud With U.S. on Spying Adds to Challenges at UN

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used her role as the first speaker at the United Nations General Assembly to call alleged U.S. spying on her government and citizens an “affront” to Brazil’s sovereignty.

Read the full Bloomberg News article here

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Sep 24, 2013
Richard Gowan
Brazil, United States
International Security

Diplomatic Fallout: Vieira de Mello and the Dark Side of U.N. Diplomacy

There will be many eulogies for Sergio Vieira de Mello in the weeks ahead. Next Monday, Aug. 19, marks the 10th anniversary of the death of the charismatic Brazilian United Nations official in Baghdad. The veteran of humanitarian and peacekeeping missions from Sudan to Timor-Leste had reluctantly taken the post of U.N. special representative to Iraq after the U.S. and its allies toppled Saddam Hussein. When a suicide-bomber killed him and 21 of his colleagues in an attack on their lightly guarded headquarters, U.N. officials were traumatized.

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Aug 13, 2013
Richard Gowan
Brazil, Middle East
Prevention and Peacebuilding
United Nations

The Fading Dream of U.N. Security Council Reform

Diplomats are rarely dreamers or gamblers. The experience of grinding negotiations means that most ambassadors and their advisers dislike big ideas and unnecessary risks. But sometimes they have to take a gamble in pursuit of national goals.

Read the full World Politics Review article here

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Mar 04, 2013
Richard Gowan
Europe, Brazil, Middle East, South Asia, India
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
International Security, United Nations

Dancing on the Sand

Why did the environmental movement send 40, 000 people to a failed summit in Rio?

Read the full Foreign Policy article here by CIC Director Bruce Jones

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Jun 21, 2012
Bruce Jones
Brazil
Resource Scarcity

Engagement on Development and Security: New Actors, New Debates

In the past several years, key governments and multilateral institutions have devoted considerable effort to the task of more effectively integrating development and security policy responses to the related challenges of countries affected by conflict, post-conflict peacebuilding, and conflict prevention. The looming deadline of the Millennium Development Goals, has focused attention on this important nexus and the near impossibility of crisis- and conflict-affected states achieving these goals unless development and security is more effectively integrated.

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Sep 05, 2011
Megan Gleason-Roberts, WPS Sidhu, Bruce Jones
China, East Asia, Brazil, India, South Africa
Fragile States, G8 and G20, International Security, Peace Operations
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Rio+20: Coalitions Driving Bottom-Up Change

The Rio+20 Summit will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, and although many gains have been achieved over the past two decades, the climate change agenda continues to move at a glacial pace while at the same time climate risks are increasing. There is an urgent need to reenergize international will for meaningful progress in addressing climate change, achieving sustainable growth and development, and protecting the environment.

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Jun 11, 2012
Bruce Jones, David Steven
Brazil
Global Governance, Resource Scarcity, United Nations

Related Publications

  • State Capture and Inequality

    State capture is a type of systematic corruption whereby narrow interest groups take control of the institutions and processes that make public policy, excluding other parts of the public whose interests those institutions are supposed to serve. State capture is often associated with the first decade of transition in the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Eastern Europe. State capture has also spread to many countries that had once seemed to be resilient democracies or, in the case of transition countries, on a secure path toward democratization. This research paper goes in-depth on the mechanisms and impacts of state capture, impact on inequalities, and lessons learned from two case studies (Brazil and South Africa).

    Read more
    Dec 17, 2021
    Elizabeth David-Barrett
    Brazil, South Africa
    Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

  • Still Ours to Lead

    America, Rising Powers, and the Tension between Rivalry and Restraint

    "What’s become clear to me is that while the rising powers--principally China, India, Brazil, but also Turkey, Indonesia, Korea and others--want to increase their influence and protect their interests, the United States still occupies a central place in their thinking and their strategies. And only the U.S. can help all these players forge an effective international order." —Bruce Jones

    Read more
    Mar 17, 2014
    Bruce Jones
    China, East Asia, Europe, Brazil, United States
    Emerging Powers, International Security

  • Rio+20: Coalitions Driving Bottom-Up Change

    The Rio+20 Summit will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, and although many gains have been achieved over the past two decades, the climate change agenda continues to move at a glacial pace while at the same time climate risks are increasing. There is an urgent need to reenergize international will for meaningful progress in addressing climate change, achieving sustainable growth and development, and protecting the environment.

    Read more
    Jun 11, 2012
    Bruce Jones, David Steven
    Brazil
    Global Governance, Resource Scarcity, United Nations

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