Associate Professor Carol Wise, School of International Relations, University of Southern California (USC), has written widely on trade integration, exchange rate crises, institutional reform, and the political economy of market restructuring in the Latin America region. Wise is author of the forthcoming book, Dragonomics: How Latin America is Maximizing or (Missing Out) on China’s International Development Strategy (Yale University Press, 2019), which analyzes the rapid economic ties that have developed between China and Latin America since the 1990s. Professor Wise’s recent publications include: “Conceptualizing China-Latin America Relations in the 21st Century: The Boom, the Bust, & the Aftermath” (with Victoria Chonn Ching), The Pacific Review (2017); “Playing both Sides of the Pacific: Latin America’s Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with China,” Pacific Affairs (2016); The Political Economy of China-Latin American Relations in the New Millennium (co-edited with Margaret Myers, Routledge, 2016); and “Good-bye Financial Crash, Hello Financial Eclecticism: Latin American Responses to the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis” (co-authored with Manuel Pastor), Journal of International Money and Finance (2015). She currently holds the Fulbright-Masaryk University Distinguished Chair Grant, Czech Republic. Email: cwise@usc.edu
