Antulio Rosales- PhD
- Professor (Assistant) at York University
Antulio Rosales
- PhD
- Professor (Assistant) at York University
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In 2021, El Salvador declared bitcoin legal tender. According to President Nayib Bukele, the measure was intended to expand access to financial services in a country with a high proportion of unbanked people and to cheapen and ease remittance flows for migrants and their families. In this article, we inquire about the use of bitcoin as a tool for f...
The incoming Trump administration will likely be a boon to crypto businesses, enthusiasts and markets, aligning US economic policy with crypto-economic nationalist ideals, fossil fuel interests and a nativist agenda. In this long read, Antulio Rosales and Ty Tarnowski analyse what this means for the American crypto industry, the regulatory landscap...
The rise of China as a trading partner, lender and investor is among the most
significant developments in the global political economy over the last two
decades. This shift has created important new opportunities for developing
countries, but it has also introduced new challenges, with benefits and
drawbacks unevenly distributed across different na...
This paper explores how so-called 'Web3' blockchain projects are materially and socially constituted. A blockchain is an append-only distributed database. The technology is being hyped as applicable for a whole range of industries, social service provisions, and as a fix for economic disparities in communities left behind by mainstream financial sy...
Venezuela is entering a new, dangerous phase of its conflict. Though not fully verified, the opposition appears to have won the July 28 election by a landslide. Nicolás Maduro's government has likely committed unprecedented fraud, tampering with votes and withholding tallies. Massive protests have erupted nationwide, with the government rapidly inc...
Cheap and abundant energy is an important incentive for the proliferation of cryptocurrency mining farms. With China's crackdown on bitcoin mining, investors have moved to the United States, Scandinavian countries, and Canada. From the perspective of business, these jurisdictions provide cheap, reliable electricity within a stable institutional con...
En este artículo abordamos los principales desafíos que enfrenta la coalición opositora ve-nezolana, Plataforma Unitaria, a partir de los resultados de la elección primaria de octubre de 2023. Analizamos el surgimiento de María Corina Machado como candidata y explora-mos posibles estrategias para gestionar las divisiones internas en la oposición, e...
This article examines how cryptocurrencies are increasingly entangled with crises in Latin American political discourse and everyday economic life. In an effort of interdisciplinary integration, combining human geography with political economy and cultural anthropology, we critically assess the linkages between cryptocurrency, economic crisis and f...
Venezuela has historically been one of the world’s largest oil producers and has the largest crude reserves. However, the country has experienced a dramatic political and economic crisis over the past decade that has decimated its oil industry. Venezuela’s production shrunk sharply in the past six years, oil exports have declined and the country is...
En febrero de 2019, el presidente de Estados Unidos Donald J. Trump afirmó ante una entusiasta multitud congregada en Miami: «todas las opciones están sobre la mesa». Se refería al intento de su gobierno de presionar al régimen de Nicolás Maduro. Esa frase, repetida a menu-do por el embajador John Bolton, consejero de Seguridad Nacional, resumía la...
Focusing on Venezuela, China’s largest borrower, this essay explores how Beijing’s non- interventionist principles create important limitations on its foreign lending practices. In the case of Venezuela, the governance of commodity-backed loans has ingrained mechanisms that allowed mismanagement and corruption to grow, undermining the development g...
Publicación: RESUMEN: Este artículo analiza 207 entrevistas a trabajadores públicos de Venezuela sobre sus condiciones de vida, enmarcado en la literatura sobre capacidad estatal. Argumentamos que la burocracia venezolana se ha visto afectada por la pérdida del valor del salario y la dependencia en remuneraciones extrasalariales. Evidenciamos la re...
After a deterioration of democratic conditions in Venezuela, in 2017 the United States intensified its sanctions imposed on the regime of Nicolás Maduro. The sanctions failed to topple the regime, but they accelerated the transformation of the Venezuelan economy. To counter the sanctions, Maduro carried out substantive economic policy changes, resu...
A central issue in the scholarly literature on the Latin American Pink Tide is the renewal of state-led development, or neo-developmentalism, and dependence on primary resources or the so-called resource curse. In this article, we consider the question of neo-developmentalism during the Pink Tide and state capacity, analyzing whether the three ‘rad...
Este trabajo es un análisis del capitalismo bodegonero como síntoma de la profunda crisis económica venezolana y de los intentos para solventarla. Aunque los bodegones y
las Zonas Económicas Especiales (ZEE) se han venido anunciando oficialmente como la panacea, la experimentación económica ad hoc no solo no es suficiente, sino que puede generar pe...
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis (2008-2010), peer-to-peer online payment mechanisms emerged as a way to avoid financial intermediaries and untrusted centralized state authorities. Cryptocurrencies proliferated among like-minded individuals, generally depicted by scholars as anarcho-capitalists. Much social science literature has foc...
In 2020, Venezuela has gone through a process of autocratic consolidation. This consolidation has taken place amid substantial economic reforms that have allowed the government of Nicolás Maduro survive sustained international and domestic pressure. In this article, we analyze this process of autocratic consolidation. We explain how, by focusing on...
This article studies the effects of sanctions on different economic sectors in Venezuela, framed as a rentier capitalist state. We analyse four sectors: hydrocarbons, agriculture, manufacturing , and what we call "emerging sectors" (mining and cryptocurrency activities). We argue that sanctions and counter-strategies employed by the state have prod...
Despite the collective aspects of the struggle against COVID-19, the pandemic emerged in a context of governance fragmentation and acute inequality. A critical Global Governance perspective helps elucidate how scale matters in relation to the COVID-19 crisis. Contrary to the aspirations of the rhetoric that accompanied the emergence of Global Gover...
El libro vuelve a poner en el debate teórico latinoamericano la cuestión del Estado. El testo busca poner al lector en contacto con un conjunto de perspectivas téoricas sobre la estatalidad latinoamericana, dejando de lado tanto la visión instrumental del reduccionismo de clases, como la del Estado como mero aparato de dominación legal
In this introduction, we present the main contributions of this special collection, which aim to open the analysis to the broader political and economic processes that underpin Venezuela’s recent crisis. We highlight the transition from a limited democracy to an authoritarian regime and some of the potential pathways to democratization. We further...
After the oil price collapsed in 2014, debates in oil-producing nations emerged around the importance of doing away with commodity dependence. Modernization plans and developmental projects sprung up among large and small producers alike. Nevertheless, some countries remain dramatically committed to rentier practices, and many in Latin America and...
Existing literature analyzing the spread of artisanal and small-scale mining highlights precarization and rising poverty in developing countries, generally as a consequence of neoliberal reforms,as the main drivers. Building on the case of Venezuela, this article draws upon this literature and traces a distinctive trajectory in mining evolution and...
This article explores the re-emergence of resource nationalism in Ecuador during Rafael Correa’s government. In 2010, Ecuador pursued a shift in oil contracts from production sharing agreements to service contracts. I argue that resource nationalist policies were intended to maximize rent appropriation and increase state control. Nevertheless, in o...
Over the last decade, Venezuela’s government turned to China’s state-owned enterprises and lending institutions as sources of financial support. As Venezuela’s rentier model of development became entrenched, it also became more dependent on China’s financial support. In this article, I analyse the recent evolution of this relationship and explain a...
Scholarship in international political economy (IPE) has noted the rise of resource nationalism in since the early 2000s. Despite the increased presence of state regulation in the resource sector, resource nationalism has not been incompatible with foreign investment. This article contributes to better understand resource nationalist policies that...
Nineteenth-century Latin America saw more extensive innovative thought about international political economy than generally recognized. Far from simply imitating British free-trade doctrine, Latin Americans from that era actively modified it to produce distinctive revolutionary, conservative, and developmental rationales for free trade. Opponents o...
Building on this journal’s recent debates about the need for “global” international relations (IR), this article calls attention to the overlooked significance of two important Latin American thinkers from the interwar years: Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and José Carlos Mariátegui. We argue that the study of their thought—and the debates between th...
Venezuela is an example of a neo-extractivist country that pursues a developmental model based on wealth redistribution sustained by oil rents. The Venezuelan government has sought support from Chinese state-owned enterprises and lending institutions. This article argues that the political elite of the Bolivarian project has turned to China not jus...
This paper seeks to understand the theoretical backgrounds that underlie the System, while raising the main issues the region faces with respect to trade and external dependency. The argument will unfold as follows: first, we discuss the main issues that need to be tackled regarding regional integration in the midst of this initiative; second, we g...
The proposal of a Banco del Sur began to be discussed in 2007 and generated important debates about the need to establish a new regional financial architecture. These discussions resulted in consensus about the importance of financing development at the regional level. An analysis of the positions and development visions of four key states—Argentin...
This article argues that South America’s ‘revolutionary’ left turn can be best explained by its assertion of state property over natural resource extraction. The recent history of the leftist movements in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador relates to the failures of the neoliberal reforms applied in the region decades before, hence the dismantling of c...
The neo-liberal globalization process has meant that the propagation of international finances as a mechanism of accumulation no longer helps the real-productive economy, but has become a business in itself. Financialization has raised the risks and vulnerabilities of the world economy, increasingly subject to crises. Meanwhile, the International F...
Resumen En el año 2007 surgió el Banco del Sur como una iniciativa suramericana para constituir una alternativa al las Instituciones Financieras Internacionales (IFIs) en la región. Diversas propuestas estatales y académicas apuntaron a la creación, junto con el Banco, de una unidad monetaria suramericana y un fondo de estabilización, potenciando e...
