Isabella Alcaniz, Ph.D.

ialcaniz@umd.edu

University of Maryland at College Park

Country: United States (Maryland)

Research Interests

Climate Change

Natural Disasters

Gender and Politics

Science Policy

Covid-19

Latin American And Caribbean Politics

Latino Politics

Countries of Interest

Argentina

Brazil

Puerto Rico

United States

Publications:

Books Written:

(2016) Environmental and Nuclear Networks in the Global South: How Skills Shape International Cooperation, Cambridge University Press, 2016, Cambridge University Press

No skills, no cooperation. That is the core finding of this book, which seeks to explain international inter-agency cooperation in the protection of the environment and the development of nuclear technology across the Global South. Policymaking has become more complex in the information age, more international and interdependent in a globalized world, and more pressed by the urgency of the problems it attempts to address. Much international cooperation is unthinkable without a large body of expert bureaucrats greasing and turning the wheels of the government machine. While high-level diplomacy and multilateral treaties receive the bulk of scholarly attention, the “behind-the-scene” legwork that expert bureaucrats do on a regular basis has not been properly studied. Yet, government experts –namely, the program managers and division heads that constitute the life force of specialized state agencies– are essential to national and international policymaking. Transnational partnerships among bureaucrats can yield extraordinary outcomes. For several decades, expert bureaucrats have been moving regularly across borders, from their home institutions to specialized International Organizations (IOs), and in the process, forging collaborative networks with peers. The purpose of this book is to explain the international cooperative behavior of state experts, who increasingly go outside their national agencies and work with foreign colleagues on technical projects and programs.

Media Appearances:

TV Appearances:

(2020) France 24 Espanol

About US presidential election

(2020) A24-Argentina

US Presidential Elections

Radio Appearances:

(2020) RFI (Radio France Internationale_Spanish)

Latinx in the US, Covid and Census

Newspaper Quotes:

(2020) El Mundo (Spain)

Covid and anti-science movement in the US and Latin America

Blog Posts:

(2020) Duck of Minerva

President Trump and Covid

(2020) El Pais (Agenda Abierta) Spain

Several posts Anti-Black racism in the US Climate Change policies in the US