Antulio Rosales
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antulio Rosales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antulio |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosales |
| SIGNATURE | ROSALES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The political economy of cryptocurrency in Latin America
This paper explains the political economy of cryptocurrency expansion in Latin America. Based on qualitative research and in-depth interviews, the paper explains the motivations that promote cryptocurrency adoption and the growth of their ecosystems. Building on the cases of Venezuela, Argentina, El Salvador and Puerto Rico, it highlights the importance of bridging material, ideational and infrastructural conditions that facilitate the use of cry…
Banning Bitcoin
New digital industries like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency mining are voracious energy consumers, with complex implications for states’ climate action, economic development, and energy security. We explore the politics of these emergent industries by examining subnational regulatory responses to the recent “crypto rush” in North America. We explore the interplay of material and interpretive dimensions of energy secur…
Venezuela’s extractive constitutionalism
This article provides a critique of Venezuela’s extractivism with an emphasis on its constitutional and regulatory foundations in historical perspective. Venezuela’s extractive legislative framework guided the country’s wealth redistribution based on oil rents, as a mechanism to enhance regime legitimacy and safeguard the interests of the ruling elites. We highlight the regulation of the oil industry throughout the two-party democratic period (19…
Curls, caves, and shadows
A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism
Cryptocurrencies have become a key component of global democratic backsliding. The imbrication of cryptocurrency and current authoritarianisms has been largely understated and misunderstood as a quirky or obscure anecdote in the process of autocratization. In fact, cryptocurrencies are a constitutive part of contemporary authoritarian policymaking, both as tools to help autocrats centralize power and as mechanisms of enrichment for incumbents and…
Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State
This article brings together the literatures of predation and depletion via social reproduction (DSR) to provide an explanation of the Venezuelan crisis (2013–2021). Venezuela’s gradual descent into a predatory state exacerbated the state’s reliance on the unpaid reproductive labor of women, which provoked gendered harms. We empirically examine DSR as exacerbated by predation that manifests in harms to citizenship entitlements, discursive harms, …
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America
The rise of China as a trading partner, lender and investor is among the most significant developments in the global political economy over the last two decades. This shift has created important new opportunities for developing countries, but it has also introduced new challenges, with benefits and drawbacks unevenly distributed across different nations. This article argues that understanding the developmental consequences of China's involvement …
How Sanctions Led to Authoritarian Capitalism in Venezuela
After a deterioration of democratic conditions in Venezuela, in 2017 the United States intensified its sanctions imposed on the regime of Nicolás Maduro. The sanctions failed to topple the regime, but they accelerated the transformation of the Venezuelan economy. To counter the sanctions, Maduro carried out substantive economic policy changes, resulting in the emergence of a neo-patrimonial and authoritarian form of capitalism. In this new model,…
Venezuela
In 2020, Venezuela has gone through a process of autocratic consolidation. This consolidation has taken place amid substantial economic reforms that have allowed the government of Nicolás Maduro survive sustained international and domestic pressure. In this article, we analyze this process of autocratic consolidation. We explain how, by focusing on the establishment of an “interim-government” in 2019, the Venezuelan opposition has been unable to …
The crisis in Venezuela
In this introduction, we present the main contributions of this special collection, which aim to open the analysis to the broader political and economic processes that underpin Venezuela’s recent crisis. We highlight the transition from a limited democracy to an authoritarian regime and some of the potential pathways to democratization. We further explain how the political transition that occurred in the last decade was influenced by structural c…
Into the shadows
This article studies the effects of sanctions on different economic sectors in Venezuela, framed as a rentier capitalist state. We analyse four sectors: hydrocarbons, agriculture, manufacturing, and what we call “emerging sectors” (mining and cryptocurrency activities). We argue that sanctions and counter-strategies employed by the state have produced multiple transformations, such as the informalization and criminalization of the economy, which …
The political economy of natural resources and development
Paul A. Haslam and Pablo Heidrich’s edited volume The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development joins a growing body of literature on the relationship between resource extraction and d
China and the decaying of socialist rentierism in Venezuela
Over the last decade, Venezuela’s government turned to China’s state-owned enterprises and lending institutions as sources of financial support. As Venezuela’s rentier model of development became entrenched, it also became more dependent on China’s financial support. In this article, I analyse the recent evolution of this relationship and explain a change in attitude from China in recent years, when Venezuela faced a soaring economic crisis. The …
Venezuela’s Deepening Logic of Extraction
Progressive intellectuals and activists have strongly criticized the emergence of a new form of extractivism in Latin America in recent years. As the Uruguayan writer and activist Eduardo Gudynas h
Toward Global IPE
Building on this journal’s recent debates about the need for “global” international relations (IR), this article calls attention to the overlooked significance of two important Latin American thinkers from the interwar years: Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and José Carlos Mariátegui. We argue that the study of their thought—and the debates between them—has much to contribute to current efforts to build a more global international political economy …
Peripheral Thoughts for International Political Economy
Nineteenth-century Latin America saw more extensive innovative thought about international political economy than generally recognized. Far from simply imitating British free-trade doctrine, Latin Americans from that era actively modified it to produce distinctive revolutionary, conservative, and developmental rationales for free trade. Opponents of free trade also generated three varieties of Latin American protectionist thought—developmental pr…
Deepening extractivism and rentierism
Venezuela is an example of a neo-extractivist country that pursues a developmental model based on wealth redistribution sustained by oil rents. The Venezuelan government has sought support from Chinese state-owned enterprises and lending institutions. This article argues that the political elite of the Bolivarian project has turned to China not just as a strategic ally but also as a source of development cooperation, a lender-of-last-resort, a ma…
Going Underground
This article argues that South America’s ‘revolutionary’ left turn can be best explained by its assertion of state property over natural resource extraction. The recent history of the leftist movements in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador relates to the failures of the neoliberal reforms applied in the region decades before, hence the dismantling of core orthodox policies has been critical for them once in power. This has been possible through the e…
The Banco del Sur and the Return to Development
The proposal of a Banco del Sur began to be discussed in 2007 and generated important debates about the need to establish a new regional financial architecture. These discussions resulted in consensus about the importance of financing development at the regional level. An analysis of the positions and development visions of four key states-Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, and Ecuador- in the negotiations for the establishment of the Banco del Sur an…
The crisis in Venezuela
In this introduction, we present the main contributions of this special collection, which aim to open the analysis to the broader political and economic processes that underpin Venezuela’s recent crisis. We highlight the transition from a limited democracy to an authoritarian regime and some of the potential pathways to democratization. We further explain how the political transition that occurred in the last decade was influenced by structural c…
Going Underground
This article argues that South America’s ‘revolutionary’ left turn can be best explained by its assertion of state property over natural resource extraction. The recent history of the leftist movements in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador relates to the failures of the neoliberal reforms applied in the region decades before, hence the dismantling of core orthodox policies has been critical for them once in power. This has been possible through the e…
Into the shadows
This article studies the effects of sanctions on different economic sectors in Venezuela, framed as a rentier capitalist state. We analyse four sectors: hydrocarbons, agriculture, manufacturing, and what we call “emerging sectors” (mining and cryptocurrency activities). We argue that sanctions and counter-strategies employed by the state have produced multiple transformations, such as the informalization and criminalization of the economy, which …
Venezuela
In 2020, Venezuela has gone through a process of autocratic consolidation. This consolidation has taken place amid substantial economic reforms that have allowed the government of Nicolás Maduro survive sustained international and domestic pressure. In this article, we analyze this process of autocratic consolidation. We explain how, by focusing on the establishment of an “interim-government” in 2019, the Venezuelan opposition has been unable to …
Toward Global IPE
Building on this journal’s recent debates about the need for “global” international relations (IR), this article calls attention to the overlooked significance of two important Latin American thinkers from the interwar years: Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and José Carlos Mariátegui. We argue that the study of their thought—and the debates between them—has much to contribute to current efforts to build a more global international political economy …
Peripheral Thoughts for International Political Economy
Nineteenth-century Latin America saw more extensive innovative thought about international political economy than generally recognized. Far from simply imitating British free-trade doctrine, Latin Americans from that era actively modified it to produce distinctive revolutionary, conservative, and developmental rationales for free trade. Opponents of free trade also generated three varieties of Latin American protectionist thought—developmental pr…
Deepening extractivism and rentierism
Venezuela is an example of a neo-extractivist country that pursues a developmental model based on wealth redistribution sustained by oil rents. The Venezuelan government has sought support from Chinese state-owned enterprises and lending institutions. This article argues that the political elite of the Bolivarian project has turned to China not just as a strategic ally but also as a source of development cooperation, a lender-of-last-resort, a ma…
The Banco del Sur and the Return to Development
The proposal of a Banco del Sur began to be discussed in 2007 and generated important debates about the need to establish a new regional financial architecture. These discussions resulted in consensus about the importance of financing development at the regional level. An analysis of the positions and development visions of four key states-Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, and Ecuador- in the negotiations for the establishment of the Banco del Sur an…
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America
The rise of China as a trading partner, lender and investor is among the most significant developments in the global political economy over the last two decades. This shift has created important new opportunities for developing countries, but it has also introduced new challenges, with benefits and drawbacks unevenly distributed across different nations. This article argues that understanding the developmental consequences of China's involvement …
China and the decaying of socialist rentierism in Venezuela
Over the last decade, Venezuela’s government turned to China’s state-owned enterprises and lending institutions as sources of financial support. As Venezuela’s rentier model of development became entrenched, it also became more dependent on China’s financial support. In this article, I analyse the recent evolution of this relationship and explain a change in attitude from China in recent years, when Venezuela faced a soaring economic crisis. The …
Going Underground
This article argues that South America’s ‘revolutionary’ left turn can be best explained by its assertion of state property over natural resource extraction. The recent history of the leftist movements in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador relates to the failures of the neoliberal reforms applied in the region decades before, hence the dismantling of core orthodox policies has been critical for them once in power. This has been possible through the e…
The Banco del Sur and the Return to Development
The proposal of a Banco del Sur began to be discussed in 2007 and generated important debates about the need to establish a new regional financial architecture. These discussions resulted in consensus about the importance of financing development at the regional level. An analysis of the positions and development visions of four key states-Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, and Ecuador- in the negotiations for the establishment of the Banco del Sur an…
Deepening extractivism and rentierism
Venezuela is an example of a neo-extractivist country that pursues a developmental model based on wealth redistribution sustained by oil rents. The Venezuelan government has sought support from Chinese state-owned enterprises and lending institutions. This article argues that the political elite of the Bolivarian project has turned to China not just as a strategic ally but also as a source of development cooperation, a lender-of-last-resort, a ma…
Venezuela’s Deepening Logic of Extraction
Progressive intellectuals and activists have strongly criticized the emergence of a new form of extractivism in Latin America in recent years. As the Uruguayan writer and activist Eduardo Gudynas h
Toward Global IPE
Building on this journal’s recent debates about the need for “global” international relations (IR), this article calls attention to the overlooked significance of two important Latin American thinkers from the interwar years: Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and José Carlos Mariátegui. We argue that the study of their thought—and the debates between them—has much to contribute to current efforts to build a more global international political economy …
Peripheral Thoughts for International Political Economy
Nineteenth-century Latin America saw more extensive innovative thought about international political economy than generally recognized. Far from simply imitating British free-trade doctrine, Latin Americans from that era actively modified it to produce distinctive revolutionary, conservative, and developmental rationales for free trade. Opponents of free trade also generated three varieties of Latin American protectionist thought—developmental pr…
The political economy of natural resources and development
Paul A. Haslam and Pablo Heidrich’s edited volume The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development joins a growing body of literature on the relationship between resource extraction and d
China and the decaying of socialist rentierism in Venezuela
Over the last decade, Venezuela’s government turned to China’s state-owned enterprises and lending institutions as sources of financial support. As Venezuela’s rentier model of development became entrenched, it also became more dependent on China’s financial support. In this article, I analyse the recent evolution of this relationship and explain a change in attitude from China in recent years, when Venezuela faced a soaring economic crisis. The …
The crisis in Venezuela
In this introduction, we present the main contributions of this special collection, which aim to open the analysis to the broader political and economic processes that underpin Venezuela’s recent crisis. We highlight the transition from a limited democracy to an authoritarian regime and some of the potential pathways to democratization. We further explain how the political transition that occurred in the last decade was influenced by structural c…
Into the shadows
This article studies the effects of sanctions on different economic sectors in Venezuela, framed as a rentier capitalist state. We analyse four sectors: hydrocarbons, agriculture, manufacturing, and what we call “emerging sectors” (mining and cryptocurrency activities). We argue that sanctions and counter-strategies employed by the state have produced multiple transformations, such as the informalization and criminalization of the economy, which …
Venezuela
In 2020, Venezuela has gone through a process of autocratic consolidation. This consolidation has taken place amid substantial economic reforms that have allowed the government of Nicolás Maduro survive sustained international and domestic pressure. In this article, we analyze this process of autocratic consolidation. We explain how, by focusing on the establishment of an “interim-government” in 2019, the Venezuelan opposition has been unable to …
How Sanctions Led to Authoritarian Capitalism in Venezuela
After a deterioration of democratic conditions in Venezuela, in 2017 the United States intensified its sanctions imposed on the regime of Nicolás Maduro. The sanctions failed to topple the regime, but they accelerated the transformation of the Venezuelan economy. To counter the sanctions, Maduro carried out substantive economic policy changes, resulting in the emergence of a neo-patrimonial and authoritarian form of capitalism. In this new model,…
Elite Dynamics and China's Influence in Latin America
The rise of China as a trading partner, lender and investor is among the most significant developments in the global political economy over the last two decades. This shift has created important new opportunities for developing countries, but it has also introduced new challenges, with benefits and drawbacks unevenly distributed across different nations. This article argues that understanding the developmental consequences of China's involvement …
A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism
Cryptocurrencies have become a key component of global democratic backsliding. The imbrication of cryptocurrency and current authoritarianisms has been largely understated and misunderstood as a quirky or obscure anecdote in the process of autocratization. In fact, cryptocurrencies are a constitutive part of contemporary authoritarian policymaking, both as tools to help autocrats centralize power and as mechanisms of enrichment for incumbents and…
Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State
This article brings together the literatures of predation and depletion via social reproduction (DSR) to provide an explanation of the Venezuelan crisis (2013–2021). Venezuela’s gradual descent into a predatory state exacerbated the state’s reliance on the unpaid reproductive labor of women, which provoked gendered harms. We empirically examine DSR as exacerbated by predation that manifests in harms to citizenship entitlements, discursive harms, …
The political economy of cryptocurrency in Latin America
This paper explains the political economy of cryptocurrency expansion in Latin America. Based on qualitative research and in-depth interviews, the paper explains the motivations that promote cryptocurrency adoption and the growth of their ecosystems. Building on the cases of Venezuela, Argentina, El Salvador and Puerto Rico, it highlights the importance of bridging material, ideational and infrastructural conditions that facilitate the use of cry…
Banning Bitcoin
New digital industries like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency mining are voracious energy consumers, with complex implications for states’ climate action, economic development, and energy security. We explore the politics of these emergent industries by examining subnational regulatory responses to the recent “crypto rush” in North America. We explore the interplay of material and interpretive dimensions of energy secur…
Venezuela’s extractive constitutionalism
This article provides a critique of Venezuela’s extractivism with an emphasis on its constitutional and regulatory foundations in historical perspective. Venezuela’s extractive legislative framework guided the country’s wealth redistribution based on oil rents, as a mechanism to enhance regime legitimacy and safeguard the interests of the ruling elites. We highlight the regulation of the oil industry throughout the two-party democratic period (19…
Curls, caves, and shadows
Political science (13 works) · Politics (10 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Latin Americans (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · International Relations in Latin America (5 works)