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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: Shannon O'Neil discusses President Obama's challenges south of the border (January 20, 2009)
PBS World Focus: Shannon O'Neil discusses the Venezuelan elections (November 24, 2008)
PBS World Focus: Shannon O'Neil discusses President-elect Obama's policies toward Latin America (November 5, 2008)
PBS World Focus: Shannon O'Neil discusses drug cartel infiltration in the Mexican attorney general's office (October 29, 2008)
PBS World Focus: Shannon O'Neil discusses Hugo Chavez's visit to China (September 23, 2008)
Blog: LatIntelligence: Analysis on Latin America
Selected Publications:
Las nuevas relaciones EE UU-América Latina (Politica Exterior; July 1, 2008; in Spanish).
Related Links:
CFR's International Institutions and Global Governance Program
Current Research Projects
Past Research Projects
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.
November 17, 2008
Expert Brief
CFR's Latin America Studies Program outlines the implications of the global financial crisis for Latin America.
See more in Americas, Central America, South America, Economics, Emerging Markets, International Finance
October 16, 2008
Audio
Listen to Shannon K. O'Neil, CFR's Douglas Dillon fellow for Latin America studies, discuss U.S.- Latin America relations and the recommendations of the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force Report on Latin America.
See more in Central America, South America, Religion, U.S. Strategy and Politics
May 30, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Not only does the United States affect Latin America, but Latin America increasingly shapes the United States as well says Shannon O’Neil. Yet despite these deepening strategic, economic, cultural and political ties, U.S. policies toward the region have remained relatively unexamined.
See more in Americas, U.S. Strategy and Politics
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