Latin America continues in social, economic, and political turmoil in 2021. The vulnerabilities set by pre-existing conditions such as persistent inequality, high informality and exclusionary social protection systems have been exacerbated by recent health and humanitarian crises unprecedented...

The following article presents a series of hypotheses to analyze the possible transitions between protest and civil war and their relation to inequality. To do so, the article presents an analysis on the emergence of protests and its relation with the increase in inequality across the world....

This paper presents the first phase of a work in progress which aims at building a System Dynamics simulation model of the theory of the Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto. This theory proposes that the explanation for the fail of capitalism in Latin America should be looked in the informal...

The chapter explores the validity of using rational choice approaches to analyze armed conflict and assess their utility to deal with the understanding of armed civil war. Ignoring rational based approaches disregards a useful tool that can illustrate interesting elements in the comprehension of...