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Grant Burrier

  • Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Boston
As seen in: World Politics Review, Global Americans
Covers:  Politics, Environment, Infrastructure, Social Welfare, Political Economy
Political scientist, environmentalist, and Latin Americanist with a penchant for itinerant traveling and music!
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Beyond Transportation, Panama's Diablos Rojos Are Treasured Rolling Artwork

Beyond Transportation, Panama's Diablos Rojos Are Treasured Rolling Artwork

The history behind the iconic buses. The competing visions for a city’s future.

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Latin America Is Running Out of Water

Latin America Is Running Out of Water

Latin America is facing a severe water crisis that will only get worse if governments don't act to mitigate i…

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Book Review: Flooded: Development, Democracy, and Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam.

Book Review: Flooded: Development, Democracy, and Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam.

Hydroelectric dams may not immediately trigger a reader’s imagination. Yet, Peter Klein’s engrossing Flooded:…

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Death in the Amazon

Death in the Amazon

Last month, a Brazilian expert on Indigenous people and a veteran journalist for The Guardian were murdered b…

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Latin America's Laggard: AMLO is Failing Mexico by Postponing a Renewable Energy Transition.

Latin America's Laggard: AMLO is Failing Mexico by Postponing a Renewable Energy Transition.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) skipped COP-26, mocking the attendees as "neoliberals and techno…

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"Más de lo mismo": Guatemalan elections highlight inchoate party system

"Más de lo mismo": Guatemalan elections highlight inchoate party system

In 1996, a formal peace accord brought Guatemala's ruinous civil war to an end. Over the course of the confli…

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The Death of the PT or life after Lula?

The Death of the PT or life after Lula?

Last week, the Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) definitively dashed ex-President Lula da Silva's bid for a thir…

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Avoiding the Thucydides Trap: The South American example

Avoiding the Thucydides Trap: The South American example

When a severely fractured, rudderless United States confronts an increasingly powerful, assertive China does …

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Apostle of the City: Remembering Jaime Lerner

Apostle of the City: Remembering Jaime Lerner

In May, Jaime Lerner-Brazilian architect, politician, and pioneer of urban planning-passed away from a chroni…

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Why Uruguay's Unprecedented Shift to Clean Energy Is a Model for the World

Why Uruguay's Unprecedented Shift to Clean Energy Is a Model for the World

In the past two decades, Uruguay has transformed its energy grid, cutting its carbon footprint and shifting o…

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Past as Present: Confronting America's History of Racism in Charlottesville

Past as Present: Confronting America's History of Racism in Charlottesville

Two years after the white supremacy rally, Charlottesville struggles with legacies of racism and slavery. The…

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The art of letting go: A dispatch to Ecuador

The art of letting go: A dispatch to Ecuador

Soon Rafael Correa will be an ex-president. Will he go calmly into presidential retirement or noisily wait in…

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Latin American lessons on populism and the consequences of dramatic change

Latin American lessons on populism and the consequences of dramatic change

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From Latin America: Five sobering lessons about populism

From Latin America: Five sobering lessons about populism

A charismatic outsider runs for the highest office in the land, framing the election as a struggle between ha…

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