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Monica Hirst

is a Brazilian-American professor of International Affairs at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires. She has taught at the Argentine Foreign Service Institute and the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO – Argentina) and served as a visiting professor at Stanford, the University of São Paulo and Harvard. She has worked as a consultant for the UN Development Program, Ford Foundation, Andean Development Corporation and the Foreign Ministries of Argentina and Colombia.

Hirst co-coordinates the project “Reconstruction of Haiti: Strengthening Argentina’s Capacity for Effective Cooperation”, run by FLACSO and supported by the International Development Research Centre. She has published extensively on Brazilian foreign policy, Latin America–US relations, regional security and integration.

Research areas: Latin America and the Caribbean

Publications

What role for Latin America and Europe in Haiti?: Monica Hirst 11 September 2010
A Latin America-Europe seminar held in June 2010 addressed the political challenges posed by the Haitian reconstruction and the complexities of international intervention. Specific attention was devoted to the question of agricultural production and food security. more