Stefano Palestini
Biographic Data
| ID | 79916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefano Palestini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefano |
| FAMILY NAME | Palestini |
| SIGNATURE | PALESTINI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1711-2805 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Demand-side Explanation of Offshore Autocratic Assistance: The Case of China and Russia and the Consolidation of Authoritarianism in Venezuela
When do authoritarian incumbents request the assistance of autocratic powers located several thousand kilometres away? What type of assistance do they request? While most of the literature focuses on the supply of assistance by autocratic powers, the framework proposed here puts the incumbents that request assistance at the centre. This is tested by looking at the inter-state relations between Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela and two offshore…
Dependence versus Interdependence: The Great Debate that Never Was
The article reconstructs the missing debate between the Latin American theory of dependencia and the US theory of interdependence. It explores a set of central works in both schools of thought spanning 50 years of scholarship. It puts forward three main claims. First, dependencia shares a common interest with Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye’s Power and Interdependence in theorizing the consequences that stem from asymmetrical relationships. Second,…
The Global South and the contestation of unilateral sanctions against Russia
States from the Global South have long advanced normative claims against the legitimacy of unilateral sanctions. These arguments have been routinely voiced through UN General Assembly Resolutions, shaping a conventional discourse of contestation of unilateral sanctions. We interrogate whether this discourse was challenged by the deployment of unilateral sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, leading to adjustments. We carry out a …
Autocracy promotion in the Americas? Scrutinizing the effect of China and Russia on democracy protection in Venezuela and Nicaragua
The 'Withdrawn Citizen: Making Sense of the Failed Constitutional Process in Chile
Chile's recent constitutional process (2019-2023) is a case in point of a democratic, bottom-up collective effort of constitution-making. It was also an opportunity to bring to closure Chile's long transition to democracy, in which the Constitution - written during the military dictatorship of General Pinochet - had remained in place. As a response to large-scale social unrest, the process was set in motion after a referendum in favour of constit…
What gives you the right?’ Foreign policymakers’ perceptions of the legitimacy of sanctions against democratic breakdown in Venezuela (2014–2019)
Drawing on contemporary debates on legitimacy and contestation in international relations, the article offers a novel analytical framework to study processes of legitimation and delegitimation of international sanctions. We apply the framework to analyse foreign policymakers' evaluations of the legitimacy of the sanctions imposed by states and international organisations against Nicol & aacute;s Maduro's regime in Venezuela. The content analysis …
Orchestrating Regionalism: The Interamerican Development Bank and the Central American Electric System
Why have Central American states been able to deliver public goods in the energy sector when most experiences of energy regionalism in Latin American have run into deadlock? Through process-tracing the different factors that transformed the Central American Electric System (SIEPAC) from a policy-idea into a fully operative supranational market, this article finds that the Interamerican Development Bank was the orchestrator of governments, nationa…
Enforcing peoples’ right to democracy: Transnational activism and regional powers in contemporary Inter-American relations
The Inter-American Democratic Charter (IADC) is the most comprehensive multilateral framework for dealing with democratic breakdowns and backslidings in the Western Hemisphere. In such cases, the Organisation of American States (OAS) is supposed to defend democracy by suspending states, imposing sanctions or taking other multilateral measures. Oftentimes, however, the OAS has looked the other way. The question, then, is what makes the difference.…
The politics of legitimation in combined sanction regimes: The case of Venezuela
Regional international organizations (RIOs) and states are increasingly sanctioning governments, firms and individuals they consider to have violated international norms. How do different RIOs legitimize the decision to impose (or not impose) sanctions? And how do they react to the legitimation strategies of other RIOs and states? This article addresses these questions by analysing the legitimation strategies of the United States and four RIOs in…
Dependent Capitalisms in Contemporary Latin America and Europe
Regional organizations and the politics of sanctions against undemocratic behaviour in the Americas
Under which conditions do regional organizations in the Americas impose sanctions on member states that violate democracy? To address this question, the article combines a qualitative comparative analysis applied to 55 presumed threats to democracy brought to the attention of regional organizations (ROs), and a process tracing analysis of two cases of the imposition of sanctions. The analysis reveals that ROs impose sanctions despite lack of supp…
Regional sanctions and the struggle for democracy: Introduction to the special issue
Regional organisations (ROs) around the world increasingly use sanctions against member states in situations of democratic crisis. This special issue unpacks the trend of RO sanctions in regions that are both democracy-dense (Europe and the Americas) and autocracy-dense (Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East). We argue that regional sanctions cannot be taken at face value as instruments of democracy promotion. Instead, the politics of regio…
Transnational governance in motion: Regional development banks, power politics, and the rise and fall of South America's infrastructure integration
Under what conditions does one transnational governance mode evolve into another? Under what conditions does a transnational governance initiative break down? The article addresses these questions through the analysis of the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), showing how delegation, orchestration, and intergovernmental (direct) governance can be linked to one another, creating a chain of governance…
Democracy and its discontents in Latin America edited by Joe Foweraker and Dolores Trevizo
Tutelage and Regime Survival in Regional Organizations' Democracy Protection: The Case of Mercosur and Unasur
Why do states adopt binding and enforceable democracy clauses at the regional level, thereby permitting neighboring states to monitor and potentially sanction their breaches of democracy? To answer this question, the authors test a set of hypotheses in two South American intergovernmental regional organizations,MERCOSURandUNASUR. Following the epistemological and methodological requirements of process-tracing analysis, the authors conducted thirt…
La gobernanza regional del desarrollo en América del Sur (2000-2015)
The article discusses the concept of Regional Development Governance (RDG) as a type of South-South cooperation. RDG initiatives have acquired new salience after two decades of new regionalism and neoliberal reforms in which «development» and «regionalism» became increasingly dissociated. The article analyses the experience of infrastructure cooperation in South American in the period 2000-2015, as an example of RDG. Through the use of process tr…
Energía De Baja Intensidad: Gobiernos, mercados e instituciones en el regionalismo energético de América del Sur
A pesar de haber sido considerada un área prioritaria de cooperación, el regionalismo energético sudamericano muestra signos de estancamiento, evidenciados por las infructuosas negociaciones de un Tratado Energético Sudamericano. Este artículo explica la paradoja de por qué, no obstante la voluntad política, las favorables condiciones estructurales para la integración, y la creación de instituciones regionales ad hoc, el regionalismo energético n…
Constructing regionalism in South America: The cases of sectoral cooperation on transport infrastructure and energy
La producción de conocimiento antropológico social en Chile: Postransición: Discontinuidades del pasado y debilidades presentes
Se caracterizan las principales tendencias de la reciente investigacin antropolgica social chilena (aos 2000-2006), situndolas en la trayectoria histrica de la disciplina en el pas. A travs del anlisis de investigaciones publicadas, de sus marcos paradigmticos, reas temticas, diseos terico-metodolgicos y de la audiencia a la que se dirigen, se concluye una alta dispersin temtica, inconsistencia paradigmtica y debilidades en la construccin terico-…
Tutelage and Regime Survival in Regional Organizations' Democracy Protection: The Case of Mercosur and Unasur
Why do states adopt binding and enforceable democracy clauses at the regional level, thereby permitting neighboring states to monitor and potentially sanction their breaches of democracy? To answer this question, the authors test a set of hypotheses in two South American intergovernmental regional organizations,MERCOSURandUNASUR. Following the epistemological and methodological requirements of process-tracing analysis, the authors conducted thirt…
Regional sanctions and the struggle for democracy: Introduction to the special issue
Regional organisations (ROs) around the world increasingly use sanctions against member states in situations of democratic crisis. This special issue unpacks the trend of RO sanctions in regions that are both democracy-dense (Europe and the Americas) and autocracy-dense (Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East). We argue that regional sanctions cannot be taken at face value as instruments of democracy promotion. Instead, the politics of regio…
Constructing regionalism in South America: The cases of sectoral cooperation on transport infrastructure and energy
Regional organizations and the politics of sanctions against undemocratic behaviour in the Americas
Under which conditions do regional organizations in the Americas impose sanctions on member states that violate democracy? To address this question, the article combines a qualitative comparative analysis applied to 55 presumed threats to democracy brought to the attention of regional organizations (ROs), and a process tracing analysis of two cases of the imposition of sanctions. The analysis reveals that ROs impose sanctions despite lack of supp…
Transnational governance in motion: Regional development banks, power politics, and the rise and fall of South America's infrastructure integration
Under what conditions does one transnational governance mode evolve into another? Under what conditions does a transnational governance initiative break down? The article addresses these questions through the analysis of the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), showing how delegation, orchestration, and intergovernmental (direct) governance can be linked to one another, creating a chain of governance…
What gives you the right?’ Foreign policymakers’ perceptions of the legitimacy of sanctions against democratic breakdown in Venezuela (2014–2019)
Drawing on contemporary debates on legitimacy and contestation in international relations, the article offers a novel analytical framework to study processes of legitimation and delegitimation of international sanctions. We apply the framework to analyse foreign policymakers' evaluations of the legitimacy of the sanctions imposed by states and international organisations against Nicol & aacute;s Maduro's regime in Venezuela. The content analysis …
Autocracy promotion in the Americas? Scrutinizing the effect of China and Russia on democracy protection in Venezuela and Nicaragua
Energía De Baja Intensidad: Gobiernos, mercados e instituciones en el regionalismo energético de América del Sur
A pesar de haber sido considerada un área prioritaria de cooperación, el regionalismo energético sudamericano muestra signos de estancamiento, evidenciados por las infructuosas negociaciones de un Tratado Energético Sudamericano. Este artículo explica la paradoja de por qué, no obstante la voluntad política, las favorables condiciones estructurales para la integración, y la creación de instituciones regionales ad hoc, el regionalismo energético n…
La producción de conocimiento antropológico social en Chile: Postransición: Discontinuidades del pasado y debilidades presentes
Se caracterizan las principales tendencias de la reciente investigacin antropolgica social chilena (aos 2000-2006), situndolas en la trayectoria histrica de la disciplina en el pas. A travs del anlisis de investigaciones publicadas, de sus marcos paradigmticos, reas temticas, diseos terico-metodolgicos y de la audiencia a la que se dirigen, se concluye una alta dispersin temtica, inconsistencia paradigmtica y debilidades en la construccin terico-…
The Global South and the contestation of unilateral sanctions against Russia
States from the Global South have long advanced normative claims against the legitimacy of unilateral sanctions. These arguments have been routinely voiced through UN General Assembly Resolutions, shaping a conventional discourse of contestation of unilateral sanctions. We interrogate whether this discourse was challenged by the deployment of unilateral sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, leading to adjustments. We carry out a …
The 'Withdrawn Citizen: Making Sense of the Failed Constitutional Process in Chile
Chile's recent constitutional process (2019-2023) is a case in point of a democratic, bottom-up collective effort of constitution-making. It was also an opportunity to bring to closure Chile's long transition to democracy, in which the Constitution - written during the military dictatorship of General Pinochet - had remained in place. As a response to large-scale social unrest, the process was set in motion after a referendum in favour of constit…
Orchestrating Regionalism: The Interamerican Development Bank and the Central American Electric System
Why have Central American states been able to deliver public goods in the energy sector when most experiences of energy regionalism in Latin American have run into deadlock? Through process-tracing the different factors that transformed the Central American Electric System (SIEPAC) from a policy-idea into a fully operative supranational market, this article finds that the Interamerican Development Bank was the orchestrator of governments, nationa…
Enforcing peoples’ right to democracy: Transnational activism and regional powers in contemporary Inter-American relations
The Inter-American Democratic Charter (IADC) is the most comprehensive multilateral framework for dealing with democratic breakdowns and backslidings in the Western Hemisphere. In such cases, the Organisation of American States (OAS) is supposed to defend democracy by suspending states, imposing sanctions or taking other multilateral measures. Oftentimes, however, the OAS has looked the other way. The question, then, is what makes the difference.…
The politics of legitimation in combined sanction regimes: The case of Venezuela
Regional international organizations (RIOs) and states are increasingly sanctioning governments, firms and individuals they consider to have violated international norms. How do different RIOs legitimize the decision to impose (or not impose) sanctions? And how do they react to the legitimation strategies of other RIOs and states? This article addresses these questions by analysing the legitimation strategies of the United States and four RIOs in…
La gobernanza regional del desarrollo en América del Sur (2000-2015)
The article discusses the concept of Regional Development Governance (RDG) as a type of South-South cooperation. RDG initiatives have acquired new salience after two decades of new regionalism and neoliberal reforms in which «development» and «regionalism» became increasingly dissociated. The article analyses the experience of infrastructure cooperation in South American in the period 2000-2015, as an example of RDG. Through the use of process tr…
La producción de conocimiento antropológico social en Chile: Postransición: Discontinuidades del pasado y debilidades presentes
Se caracterizan las principales tendencias de la reciente investigacin antropolgica social chilena (aos 2000-2006), situndolas en la trayectoria histrica de la disciplina en el pas. A travs del anlisis de investigaciones publicadas, de sus marcos paradigmticos, reas temticas, diseos terico-metodolgicos y de la audiencia a la que se dirigen, se concluye una alta dispersin temtica, inconsistencia paradigmtica y debilidades en la construccin terico-…
Constructing regionalism in South America: The cases of sectoral cooperation on transport infrastructure and energy
Energía De Baja Intensidad: Gobiernos, mercados e instituciones en el regionalismo energético de América del Sur
A pesar de haber sido considerada un área prioritaria de cooperación, el regionalismo energético sudamericano muestra signos de estancamiento, evidenciados por las infructuosas negociaciones de un Tratado Energético Sudamericano. Este artículo explica la paradoja de por qué, no obstante la voluntad política, las favorables condiciones estructurales para la integración, y la creación de instituciones regionales ad hoc, el regionalismo energético n…
La gobernanza regional del desarrollo en América del Sur (2000-2015)
The article discusses the concept of Regional Development Governance (RDG) as a type of South-South cooperation. RDG initiatives have acquired new salience after two decades of new regionalism and neoliberal reforms in which «development» and «regionalism» became increasingly dissociated. The article analyses the experience of infrastructure cooperation in South American in the period 2000-2015, as an example of RDG. Through the use of process tr…
Democracy and its discontents in Latin America edited by Joe Foweraker and Dolores Trevizo
Tutelage and Regime Survival in Regional Organizations' Democracy Protection: The Case of Mercosur and Unasur
Why do states adopt binding and enforceable democracy clauses at the regional level, thereby permitting neighboring states to monitor and potentially sanction their breaches of democracy? To answer this question, the authors test a set of hypotheses in two South American intergovernmental regional organizations,MERCOSURandUNASUR. Following the epistemological and methodological requirements of process-tracing analysis, the authors conducted thirt…
Dependent Capitalisms in Contemporary Latin America and Europe
Regional organizations and the politics of sanctions against undemocratic behaviour in the Americas
Under which conditions do regional organizations in the Americas impose sanctions on member states that violate democracy? To address this question, the article combines a qualitative comparative analysis applied to 55 presumed threats to democracy brought to the attention of regional organizations (ROs), and a process tracing analysis of two cases of the imposition of sanctions. The analysis reveals that ROs impose sanctions despite lack of supp…
Regional sanctions and the struggle for democracy: Introduction to the special issue
Regional organisations (ROs) around the world increasingly use sanctions against member states in situations of democratic crisis. This special issue unpacks the trend of RO sanctions in regions that are both democracy-dense (Europe and the Americas) and autocracy-dense (Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East). We argue that regional sanctions cannot be taken at face value as instruments of democracy promotion. Instead, the politics of regio…
Transnational governance in motion: Regional development banks, power politics, and the rise and fall of South America's infrastructure integration
Under what conditions does one transnational governance mode evolve into another? Under what conditions does a transnational governance initiative break down? The article addresses these questions through the analysis of the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), showing how delegation, orchestration, and intergovernmental (direct) governance can be linked to one another, creating a chain of governance…
Enforcing peoples’ right to democracy: Transnational activism and regional powers in contemporary Inter-American relations
The Inter-American Democratic Charter (IADC) is the most comprehensive multilateral framework for dealing with democratic breakdowns and backslidings in the Western Hemisphere. In such cases, the Organisation of American States (OAS) is supposed to defend democracy by suspending states, imposing sanctions or taking other multilateral measures. Oftentimes, however, the OAS has looked the other way. The question, then, is what makes the difference.…
The politics of legitimation in combined sanction regimes: The case of Venezuela
Regional international organizations (RIOs) and states are increasingly sanctioning governments, firms and individuals they consider to have violated international norms. How do different RIOs legitimize the decision to impose (or not impose) sanctions? And how do they react to the legitimation strategies of other RIOs and states? This article addresses these questions by analysing the legitimation strategies of the United States and four RIOs in…
What gives you the right?’ Foreign policymakers’ perceptions of the legitimacy of sanctions against democratic breakdown in Venezuela (2014–2019)
Drawing on contemporary debates on legitimacy and contestation in international relations, the article offers a novel analytical framework to study processes of legitimation and delegitimation of international sanctions. We apply the framework to analyse foreign policymakers' evaluations of the legitimacy of the sanctions imposed by states and international organisations against Nicol & aacute;s Maduro's regime in Venezuela. The content analysis …
Orchestrating Regionalism: The Interamerican Development Bank and the Central American Electric System
Why have Central American states been able to deliver public goods in the energy sector when most experiences of energy regionalism in Latin American have run into deadlock? Through process-tracing the different factors that transformed the Central American Electric System (SIEPAC) from a policy-idea into a fully operative supranational market, this article finds that the Interamerican Development Bank was the orchestrator of governments, nationa…
The Global South and the contestation of unilateral sanctions against Russia
States from the Global South have long advanced normative claims against the legitimacy of unilateral sanctions. These arguments have been routinely voiced through UN General Assembly Resolutions, shaping a conventional discourse of contestation of unilateral sanctions. We interrogate whether this discourse was challenged by the deployment of unilateral sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, leading to adjustments. We carry out a …
Autocracy promotion in the Americas? Scrutinizing the effect of China and Russia on democracy protection in Venezuela and Nicaragua
The 'Withdrawn Citizen: Making Sense of the Failed Constitutional Process in Chile
Chile's recent constitutional process (2019-2023) is a case in point of a democratic, bottom-up collective effort of constitution-making. It was also an opportunity to bring to closure Chile's long transition to democracy, in which the Constitution - written during the military dictatorship of General Pinochet - had remained in place. As a response to large-scale social unrest, the process was set in motion after a referendum in favour of constit…
A Demand-side Explanation of Offshore Autocratic Assistance: The Case of China and Russia and the Consolidation of Authoritarianism in Venezuela
When do authoritarian incumbents request the assistance of autocratic powers located several thousand kilometres away? What type of assistance do they request? While most of the literature focuses on the supply of assistance by autocratic powers, the framework proposed here puts the incumbents that request assistance at the centre. This is tested by looking at the inter-state relations between Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela and two offshore…
Dependence versus Interdependence: The Great Debate that Never Was
The article reconstructs the missing debate between the Latin American theory of dependencia and the US theory of interdependence. It explores a set of central works in both schools of thought spanning 50 years of scholarship. It puts forward three main claims. First, dependencia shares a common interest with Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye’s Power and Interdependence in theorizing the consequences that stem from asymmetrical relationships. Second,…
Political science (15 works) · Politics (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · International Relations in Latin America (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Democracy (7 works) · International Development and Aid (7 works)