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Douglas Dillon Fellow for Latin America Studies
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Phone: +1.212.434.9772
E-mail: soneil@cfr.org
Location:
New York, NY
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Director of the recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward Latin America. Currently authoring a book on Mexico.
Expertise:Latin America; policy reform; immigration.
Experience:Adjunct assistant professor of political science and visiting scholar, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University (2006); Fulbright scholar in Mexico and Argentina; Justice, Welfare and Economics Fellow, Harvard University; Equity Analyst, Indosuez Capital Latin America and Credit Lyonnais Securities (1994-97).
Television Interviews:
PBS World Focus: Obama tackles drugs, flu, and trade at Mexico summit (August 10, 2009)
PBS World Focus: Clinton outlines conditions for Cuba entry to OAS (June 2, 2009)
Charlie Rose: A conversation about President Obama's trip to Mexico (April 17, 2009)
PBS World Focus: President Obama's challenges south of the border (January 20, 2009)
PBS World Focus: The Venezuelan elections (November 24, 2008)
PBS World Focus: President-elect Obama's policies toward Latin America (November 5, 2008)
PBS World Focus: Drug cartel infiltration in the Mexican attorney general's office (October 29, 2008)
PBS World Focus: Hugo Chavez's visit to China (September 23, 2008)
Articles in Spanish:
La guerra real de México (Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica; Volume 9, Number 3, 2009)
Las nuevas relaciones EE UU-América Latina (Politica Exterior; July 1, 2008).
Blog: LatIntelligence: Analysis on Latin America
Related Links:
CFR's International Institutions and Global Governance Program
Current Research Projects
Past Research Projects
November 18, 2009
Video
Watch experts analyze the greater roles regional and multilateral organizations, such as the Organization of American States and the United Nations, can play in controlling organized crime.
This session was part of the CFR symposium, Organized Crime in the Western Hemisphere: An Overlooked Threat?, undertaken in collaboration with the Latin American Program and Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and made possible by the generous support of the Hauser Foundation, Tinker Foundation, and a grant from the Robina Foundation for CFR's International Institutions and Global Governance program.
See more in Homeland Security, Society and Culture
September 29, 2009
Podcast
CFR Fellow Shannon K. O'Neil says Brazil is "taking ownership" of diplomacy surrounding the Honduras political stalemate in part because the Organization of American States has been unable to effectively manage the crisis.
See more in Central America, Diplomacy
August 18, 2009
Article
Foreign Affairs
Shannon K. O'Neil provides an annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on Mexican politics.
See more in Mexico
July/August 2009
Op-Ed
Foreign Affairs
See more in Mexico, Democracy and Human Rights, Society and Culture
July 1, 2009
Audio
Listen to CFR expert Shannon O'Neil and Foreign Affairs Editor Jim Hoge discuss O'Neil's new article in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs,"The Real Mexico: How Democracy Can Defeat the Drug Cartels."
July 1, 2009
Transcript
CFR's Shannon O'Neil discusses the challenges Mexico faces in combatting drug cartels. Improving the security situation, she argues, depends on strengthening Mexico's democratic institutions.
See more in Mexico, Democracy and Human Rights, Society and Culture
May 28, 2009
Op-Ed
Foreign Policy
Shannon K. O'Neil discusses crime and violence in Venezuela.
See more in Venezuela, Rule of Law
April 2009
Article
The Centre for International Governance Innovation
This report from the Center for International Governance (CIGI) identifies opportunities to lay the groundwork for the development of concrete initiatives to address the
strategic needs of the Western Hemisphere for a sustainable energy future.
See more in Americas, Energy/Environment, Global Governance
April 2, 2009
Audio
Listen to Shannon K. O'Neil, CFR's Douglas Dillon fellow for Latin America studies, discuss Latin America policy in the Obama administration with students as part of CFR's Academic Conference Call Series.
See more in Americas, Mexico, South America
February 26, 2009
Video
Watch former Mexican health minister Julio Frenk Mora discuss his recommendations on how best to manage public health programs during the global financial crisis, including changes to health insurance policies.
See more in Mexico, Global Health
February 26, 2009
Audio
Listen to former Mexican health minister Julio Frenk Mora discuss his recommendations on how best to manage public health programs during the global financial crisis, including changes to health insurance policies.
See more in Mexico, Global Health
February 24, 2009
Expert Brief
Brazen assassinations, kidnappings, and political intimidation by drug lords conjure up images of Colombia in the early 1990s. Yet today it is Mexico that is being engulfed by escalating violence, and U.S. gun laws, immigration rules, drug control and border policies all have exacerbated the problems.
See more in Mexico, Arms Trade, Society and Culture
February 23, 2009
Transcript
Barry R. McCaffrey, President, BR McCaffrey Associates LLC; Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, United States Military Academy; Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy (1996-2001), and Shannon K. O'Neil, Douglas Dillon Fellow for Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations discuss President Obama's US foreign policy with repect to its relations with Mexico.
See more in Mexico, United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 20, 2009
Video
Watch experts discuss U.S.-Mexico relations under the Obama administration, including ways to mitigate drug violence and improve immigration policy.
See more in Mexico, Society and Culture, U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 20, 2009
Audio
Listen to experts discuss U.S.-Mexico relations under the Obama administration, including ways to mitigate drug violence and improve immigration policy.
See more in Mexico, Society and Culture, U.S. Strategy and Politics
January 13, 2009
Article
World Politics Review
Shannon K. O'Neil writes that, "South American integration has the potential to lessen an unhealthy dynamic within U.S.-Latin America relations."
See more in South America, Diplomacy
January 13, 2009
Op-Ed
Foreign Policy
Shannon K. O'Neil discusses America's influential role in the war on drugs.
See more in Mexico, Wars and Warfare, Society and Culture
December 1, 2008
Article
The News
Shannon O'Neil writes that "Mexico has a chance to shape the international agenda. It is an opportunity Calderón should not waste."
See more in Mexico
November 27, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Times
Shannon K. O'Neil and Sebastian Chaskel write that "the U.S. can improve Colombia's human rights situation by bolstering economic opportunities through the FTA."
November 25, 2008
Academic Module
This module features teaching notes by CFR Douglas Dillon Fellow for Latin America Studies Shannon K. O'Neil, director of the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on Latin America, U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality, along with other resources to supplement the text. This Task Force report offers recommendations for U.S. policy toward Latin America and identifies four crucial areas—poverty and inequality, public security, migration, and energy security—that should provide the basis of a new U.S. approach.
Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report
provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.
For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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