IRIS’ Latin America/Caribbean programme aims to combine different levels of analytical productions for a diverse audience of professionals (companies, decision-makers, journalists, etc.), students and experts of the area (researchers, academics, institutions). It offers analyses and decoding of the current Latin American geopolitical events and the relations between this region and the rest of the world (including the European Union), as well as the publication of thorough thematic studies on all these subjects useful to all these audiences. Finally, this programme contributes to the debate by organising events on all the selected topics of interest (seminars, colloquia, etc.).

Specific areas of expertise

IRIS’ Latin America/Caribbean programme covers the entire sub-continent made of over 40 countries of different geopolitical and geo-economic sizes and weights.

Its objectives include a transversal treatment of the area in terms of countries (a dozen countries are regularly monitored) and issues (regional integration, drug trafficking, migration, integration into major international geoeconomic and trade dynamics, etc.).

It constantly monitors the political and social actors who shape the region’s geopolitical developments in its immediate and wider environment.

A recognised expertise

With its team of complementary skills and profiles (researchers, academics, civil society stakeholders, who regularly carry out field missions, journalists, former institutional actors) and its recognised expertise on issues related to the Latin American and Caribbean region, IRIS’ Latin America/Caribbean programme carries out studies, reports and consultancy notes for public and private partners. It also provides sustained expertise for media actors (print, radio and television).

For companies, it offers decryptions and analytical frameworks suited to their needs and strategies in short, medium and long term, to promote their successful implementation in a complex and changing environment.

Some of this programme’s initiatives are the result of partnerships developed with the French development Agency (AFD), the Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy (DGRIS) of the Ministry of Defence, the Centre for Analysis, Planning and Strategy (CAPS) of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, and the Thalès company.