Joint Seminar: The Trump Effect: What Next For Venezuela?

Chair: David Doyle, LAC/ DPIR

Speaker(s): Tom Long, Warwick University; Maryhen Jiménez, LAC; Annette Idler, Blavatnik School of Government

Source: Wikipedia/ Vicepresidencia de Venezuela

Tom Long is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies, author of Latin America Confronts the United States: Asymmetry and Influence (CUP, 2015).

Maryhen Jiménez is a Research Associate at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford. Her research spans the fields of comparative authoritarianism, democratization, with a particular focus on opposition movements. In 2021 she won the Political Science Association’s Lord Bryce Award for best dissertation in comparative politics in the UK and her work and contributions have been published in Political Studies, Cambridge University Press, and is forthcoming in the Journal of Democracy.

Annette Idler is Associate Professor in Global Security, Blavatnik School of Government, and Founding Director of the Global Security Programme at Oxford’s Pembroke College.  She is the author of Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia’s War (Oxford University Press, 2019).

David Doyle is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, where he serves as Head of the Department.  Previously he was the Director of the Latin American Centre.

This event is part of a two-day seminar discussion on the impact of the US incursion in Venezuela on 3 January, jointly organised by the Latin American Centre, the Rothermere American Institute and the Department of Politics and International Relations in Oxford.  The panel discussion during the second day, ‘The Past, Present, and Future of the US and the Western Hemisphere’, will be held on 11 March, 5.00 pm, at the Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road.