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The Gary Wynia Memorial Lecture on Latin American Political Economy 

Carol Wise earned her PhD at Columbia University. She was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC for eight years. Professor Wise specializes in international political economy and development, with an emphasis on Latin America. She has written widely on trade integration, exchange rate crises, institutional reform, and the political economy of market restructuring in the region.

Wise is currently working on a book-length project―“Varieties of Capitalist Development in China-Latin American Relations”―which analyzes the rapid and remarkable ties that have developed between China and Latin America since the 1990s. Her study approaches this phenomenon from three main angles: the relative rise of China in the global economy such that it has now replaced the U.S. as the most important trading partner for an increasing number of countries in Latin America; the decidedly more heterodox and flexible approach to economic policy management that increased relations with China has instilled in its main Latin American partners; and the political implications of the growing presence of a "new" hegemon in the Western Hemisphere, one that has resisted the longstanding U.S. notion that liberal capitalist democracy is the only acceptable form of governance.

Wise’s recent publications include Unexpected Outcomes: The Quick Rebound of Emerging Economies from the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis (co-edited with Leslie Armijo and Saori Katada, Brookings Institution Press, 2015) and “Good-bye Financial Crash, Hello Financial Eclecticism: Latin American Responses to the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis,” Journal of International Money and Finance (co-authored with Manuel Pastor, 2015). 

Professor Wise is the 2015 recipient of the Fulbright-Masaryk University Distinguished Chair Grant, Czech Republic.