Global Americans
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| 501(c)(3) nonprofit | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Think Tank |
| Founded 📆 | 2015 |
| Founder 👔 | Christopher Sabatini |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , New York , United States |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Guy Mentel (Director) |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | theglobalamericans |
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Global Americans (previously known as Latin America Goes Global) is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank and regional news website that focuses on international affairs in the Western Hemisphere. Founded in 2015, it is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization with aims to “broaden analysis and discussion of the Americas within a global context.”[1]
Global Americans’ research and publications focus on democratic governance, human rights, hemispherical security, economic development, and foreign policy in the Americas. It holds high-level discussions bridging seasoned scholars, foreign service professionals, and private sector representatives.
History
Global Americans launched in May 2015 under the name Latin America Goes Global.[2] Christopher Sabatini, a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and the founder of Americas Quarterly, served as the founding director of the organization. In 2020, Guy Mentel was appointed executive director of Global Americans.[3]
Regular and semi-regular contributors hail from Boston University, Columbia University, Florida International University, New York University, the Inter-American Dialogue, Due Process of Law Foundation, Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL), and more. Prominent members of Global Americans include Liliana Ayalde, Flavio Dario Espinal, L. Enrique Garcia, Billie Miller, Luis Gilberto Murillo, José Antonio Ocampo, and Thomas A. Shannon, among others.
Global Americans regularly publishes reports, op-eds, commentary, and analysis on a wide range of issues in the hemisphere. Global Americans also regularly hosts conferences and webinars with seasoned experts across the hemisphere. From 2018 to 2020, Global Americans and the Canadian Council for the Americas co-produced a podcast, Two Gringos with Questions, co-hosted by Christopher Sabatini and Ken Frankel.[3][4]
In July 2020, Global Americans published an e-book Good Governance in the Caribbean, following a GA-hosted conference co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Suriname, which gathered regional and international experts to examine possible paths toward political, environmental, and economic stability in the Caribbean.[5]
Research
Measuring the Impact of Misinformation, Disinformation, and Propaganda in Latin America
In 2020, Global Americans launched a research project in collaboration with Medianálisis, the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL, for its Spanish initials), the Tecnológico de Monterrey, and the University of Rosario on the impact of misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda in Latin America.[6][7] The project resulted in two virtual events in 2021, as well as a public report.[8] The report analyzed Chinese and Russian use of propaganda in Latin America, the spread of COVID-19 misinformation, and the two-way relationship between disinformation and political polarization.[9][10][11]
Working Group on Inter-American Relations
In 2017, Global Americans received a grant from the Ford Foundation,[12] allowing the organization to launch a working group on U.S.-Latin America relations chaired by Carolina Barco, Enrique García, Marc Grossman, and Arturo Sarukhan and including 51 policymakers, business leaders, and academics from eleven Western Hemisphere countries. The Working Group published five reports in 2018 and three papers in 2019 on trade and economic relations, educational exchange, the Venezuelan refugee crisis, climate change in the Caribbean, combating corruption, and drug policy.[13]
High-Level Working Group on U.S.-Ecuador Relations
In June 2021, Global Americans launched a new research initiative evaluating the future of U.S.-Ecuador relations.[14] Caterina Costa, Luis Gilberto Murillo, Nathalie Cely, Richard Feinberg, Tulio Vera, and Verónica Arias, among 28 prestigious foreign service professionals, business leaders, and scholars, joined the high-level working group and have published six reports assessing Indigenous movements, trade, investment, and environment in Ecuador. The formation of this project came with an online event joined by Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Holguín, and Ambassador Michael J. Fitzpatrick.[15] Ecuadorian ambassador to the U.S. Ivonne Baki commented that the work “generates a better understanding of the importance of a bilateral trade agreement, but above all, the urgency of having this type of tools to support the process of democratic conservation in Ecuador.”[16]
Climate Change in the Caribbean
In May 2022, Global Americans launched a new research initiative evaluating climate change and its global effects with a particular focus on climate change in the Caribbean.[17] To support project, Global Americans assembled a High-Level Working of 31 seasoned policymakers, scholars, government officials, and civil society representatives from the region, including Anton E. Edmunds, Billie Miller, Claire Nelson, and Ronald Sanders, among others. This project will provide an ongoing forum where U.S. and Caribbean representatives can collaboratively shape the hemisphere’s agenda on climate change, addressing a myriad of climate change issues, including––among others––climate finance, climate migration, sustainability, climate resilience, illicit economic activities, and the future of the blue economy. As of October 2022, Global Americans had published three papers, titled “The Future of Blue Economy,” “Climate Finance and the Caribbean,” and “Climate Change and Illicit Economic Activities.” The project is funded by the Open Society Foundation.
References
- ↑ "About Us". Global Americans. 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
- ↑ O'Neil, Shannon. "Latin America Goes Global Launch". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2021-05-28. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "▷ #PulsoEmpresarial Global Americans da la bienvenida a Guy Mentel como nuevo Director Ejecutivo". El Impulso (in español). 2020-05-21. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
- ↑ "Two Gringos with Questions". www.ccacanada.com. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
- ↑ "Good Governance in the Caribbean". Global Americans. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
- ↑ "Fake news se detendrán solo con unión de instituciones, gobierno y sociedad: Guy Mentel". El Financiero (in español). 2021-10-21. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
- ↑ Salazar, Cristian (2021-12-03). "La desinformación y la propaganda política que viene del extranjero". Las 2 Orillas (in español). Retrieved 2022-03-02.
- ↑ Guevara, Tomás (2021-10-27). "Las campañas de desinformación proliferan en América Latina, según expertos". Voz de América (in español). Retrieved 2021-11-03.
- ↑ "Campañas de desinformación refuerzan influencia política: Guy Mentel". www.milenio.com (in español). 2021-12-07. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
- ↑ Rincón, Sebastián (2021-10-22). "Desinformación y fake news, reflejo de fallas sociales preexistentes: Guy Mentel". Forbes Colombia (in español). Retrieved 2021-11-03.
- ↑ Couceiro, Valentina (2021-12-04). "Fake news: 'Hay que ser escépticos con los medios estatales de países no democráticos'". Perfil (in español). Retrieved 2022-03-02.
- ↑ "Global Americans Profile". www.guidestar.org. Retrieved 2021-05-28. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Our Research". Global Americans. 2020-07-07. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
- ↑ "High-Level Working Group on U.S.-Ecuador Relations". Global Americans. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
- ↑ "A Conversation with Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Holguín". Youtube. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
- ↑ "A Conversation with Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Holguín". Youtube. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
- ↑ "Climate Change in the Caribbean". Global Americans. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
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