Mendez, Alvaro

Number of items: 70.
2025
  • Méndez, Álvaro (2025). Reforming global finance: Africa’s G20 moment. Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI),
  • Méndez, Álvaro, Alden, Christopher (2025). China’s expanding footprint in Latin America: trade, diplomacy, and strategic influence. In Open Access Government: Asia Analysis . Adjacent Digital Politics Ltd.
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Estrada, Gaspard (2025). Geopolitical game-changer: China’s expanding role in Latin America’s defense, aerospace, and telecommunications. In Farhadi, A., Grzegorzewski, M. & Masys, A. J. (Eds.), The Great Power Competition Volume 6: The Rise of China (pp. 185 - 206). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70767-4_9
    • 2024
  • Méndez, Álvaro (2024). Reforming multilateral financial institutions: perspectives from India and China on development finance in the Global South. In Fasulo, F. & Missaglia, N. (Eds.), Competing for the Global South: Asia and the Quest for Leadership in a Multipolar World (pp. 57 - 73). Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale (Milan, Italy). picture_as_pdf
  • Méndez, Álvaro, Alden, Christopher (2024). Tit-for-tat diplomacy will Brazil join China’s Belt and Road Initiative? China Global South Project,
  • Ubeda, Fernando, Mendez, Alvaro, Forcadell, Francisco Javier, López, Belén (2024). How socially sustainable multinational banks promote financial inclusion in developing countries. Research in International Business and Finance, 71, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102470 picture_as_pdf
  • Méndez, Álvaro, Alden, Chris (2024). Panama, Ecuador, and China: the dangers of short-term calculations. United States Institute of Peace Press.
  • Alden, Christopher, Méndez, Álvaro (15 July 2024) China rising, Latin America swooning. Royal Society for Asian Affairs blog.
  • Méndez, Álvaro, Alden, Christopher (2024). China y América Latina: historia, comercio y geopolítica. In Jose Rugeles, A. (Ed.), América Latina: la visión de sus líderes (pp. 897 - 904). Planeta. picture_as_pdf
  • Ubeda, Fernando, Mendez, Alvaro, Forcadell, Francisco Javier (2024). Sustainable banking and trust in the global South. Global Policy, 15(S1), 34 - 44. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13314 picture_as_pdf
    • 2023
  • Méndez, Álvaro, Alden, Christopher (2023). Latin America’s diplomacy: balancing EU and China with Mercosur. China Global South Project,
  • Alden, Christopher, Méndez, Álvaro (2023). Of choke points, copper mines and China. China Global South Project,
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2023). Russia’s backyard: China and Central Asia after the invasion of Ukraine. In Farhadi, A., Grzegorzewski, M. & Masys, A. J. (Eds.), The Great Power Competition Volume 5: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Implications for the Central Region (pp. 199 – 216). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40451-1_10
  • Méndez, Álvaro, Estrada, Gaspard (2023). État des lieux de la présence chinoise en Amérique latine et aux Caraïbes. Observatoire stratégique de l'Amérique latine (Sciences Po).
  • Alden, Christopher, Méndez, Álvaro (2023). Ecuador’s new free trade pact with China provokes lots of excitement and even more questions. China Global South Project,
  • Rugeles, Andres, Mendez, Alvaro (2023). China plays geopolitical chess game in Latin America. El País,
  • Rugeles, Andres, Mendez, Alvaro (2023). China y el ajedrez geopolítico de América Latina. El País,
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2023). Latin American agency: the new development bank, Uruguay's accession and Brazilian influence. Global Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13214 picture_as_pdf
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Alden, Christopher (2023). China’s Free Trade Agreements in the Global South: Quito and Beijing. China Global South Project,
  • Alden, Christopher, Mendez, Alvaro (2023). China and Latin America: development, agency and geopolitics. Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350236950
  • Houghton, David Patrick, Mendez, Alvaro (2023). Visceral politics and its impact on US foreign policy decision-making. Foreign Policy Analysis, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orac025 picture_as_pdf
  • Úbeda, Fernando, Mendez, Alvaro, Martínez, Francisco Javier Forcadell (2023). The sustainable practices of multinational banks as drivers of financial inclusion in developing countries. Finance Research Letters, 51, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.103278 picture_as_pdf
  • Úbeda, Fernando, Mendez, Alvaro, Forcadell, Francisco Javier (2023). Sustainability and trust: financial inclusion in the Global South. (Working paper series 2). LSE Global South Unit. picture_as_pdf
    • 2022
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Forcadell, Francisco Javier, Horiachko, Kateryna (2022). Russia–Ukraine crisis: China’s Belt Road Initiative at the crossroads. Asian Business & Management, 21(4), 488 - 496. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41291-022-00195-1 picture_as_pdf
  • Altamira, Maria, Fornes, Gaston, Mendez, Alvaro (2022). Chinese institutions and international expansion within the Belt and Road Initiative: firm capabilities of Chinese companies in the European Union. Asia-Pacific Business Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2022.2093520
  • Úbeda, Fernando, Forcadell, Francisco Javier, Aracil, Elisa, Mendez, Alvaro (2022). How sustainable banking fosters the SDG 10 in weak institutional environments. Journal of Business Research, 146, 277 - 287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.03.065 picture_as_pdf
  • Turzi, Mariano, Mendez, Alvaro (2022). Latin America in/and the AIIB: a constructivist analysis. Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 22(3), 478 - 494. https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-0660-2022-22-3-478-494 picture_as_pdf
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2022). The New Development Bank and Uruguay: a win-win deal. Global Policy,
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Forcadell, Francisco Javier (2022). China y América Latina: diplomacia, comercio y geopolítica. In Estrada, G. (Ed.), América Latina: Mirar al Futuro (pp. 175 - 191). Nueva Revista.
  • Úbeda, Fernando, Mendez, Alvaro, Forcadell, Francisco Javier (2022). The sustainable practices of multinational banks as drivers of financial inclusion in developing countries. (Working paper series 1). LSE Global South Unit. picture_as_pdf
    • 2021
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2021). Beijing and Taipei: the Latin American geopolitical connection. The China Africa Project,
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Forcadell, Francisco, Ubeda, Fernando (2021). Sustainable banking in the Global South: ESG innovations in China. Digital Economy and Innovation Journal, 1(1), 121-136. https://doi.org/10.7263/edeij-1-1-006
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2021). China’s vaccine diplomacy: soft power lessons from Latin America. The China Africa Project,
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2021). Geopolitics in Central America: China and El Salvador in the 21st century. In Kellner, T. & Wintgens, S. (Eds.), China-Latin America and the Caribbean: Assessment and Outlook (pp. 207 - 221). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003037934-17 picture_as_pdf
  • García R, Enrique, Mendez, Alvaro (2021). Mañana today: a long view of economic value creation in Latin America. Global Policy, 12(3), 410 - 413. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12938 picture_as_pdf
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2021). Dependency in the twenty-first century? The political economy of China–Latin America relations, by Barbara Stallings. The China Journal, 85, 210 - 212. https://doi.org/10.1086/711517 picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Christopher, Mendez, Alvaro (2021). Comparative study of Costa Rica, Argentina, Malaysia, Djibouti and their complex relationship with China: advantages, disadvantages and lessons learned. (LSE Global South Unit Working Paper Series 05/2021). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Alden, Christopher, Carlos Herrera, Luis, Montenegro, Markelda, Torres–Lista, Virginia (2021). New diplomatic relations between Panama and China: geopolitical and socioeconomic implications. CENICS. picture_as_pdf
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Alden, Christopher, Carlos Herrera, Luis, Montenegro, Markelda, Torres–Lista, Virginia (2021). Nuevas relaciones diplomáticas entre Panamá y China: implicaciones geopolíticas y socioeconómicas. CENICS. picture_as_pdf
    • 2020
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2020). The effect of COVID-19, geopolitics, and relationships with China and the United States on economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2020). New Development Assistance the case of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The Case Centre,
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Turzi, Mariano (2020). The political economy of China–Latin America relations: the AIIB membership. Palgrave Pivot. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33451-2
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Houghton, David Patrick (2020). Sustainable banking: the role of multilateral development banks as norm entrepreneurs. Sustainability, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/su12030972 picture_as_pdf
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2020). Enlisting the gatekeeper: chain-referral and elite access in foreign policy analysis. SAGE Research Methods Cases, picture_as_pdf
    • 2019
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2019). Latin America and the AIIB: interests and viewpoints. Global Policy, 10(4), 639-644. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12733 picture_as_pdf
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Alden, Chris (2019). China in Panama: from peripheral diplomacy to grand strategy. Geopolitics, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2019.1657413 picture_as_pdf
  • Jing, Yijia, Mendez, Alvaro, Zheng, Yu (2019). New development assistance in the making: an introduction. In Jing, Y., Mendez, A. & Zheng, Y. (Eds.), New development assistance: emerging economies and the new landscape of development assistance (pp. 1-18). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Jing, Yijia, Mendez, Alvaro, Zheng, Yu (Eds.) (2019). New development assistance: emerging economies and the new landscape of development assistance. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Alden, Christopher, Large, Dan, Mendez, Alvaro (2019). The western way of development: a critical review. In Jing, Y., Mendez, A. & Zheng, Y. (Eds.), New development assistance: emerging economies and the new landscape of development assistance (pp. 19-38). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Alcade, Javier, Alden, Christopher (2019). Introducción: Análisis de la Política Exterior de Perú hacia China en el siglo XXI. In Mendez, A., Alcade, J. & Alden, C. (Eds.), La conexión China en la Política Exterior del Perú en el siglo XXI (pp. 13-24). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. picture_as_pdf
  • Alcade, Javier, Alden, Christopher, Guerra-Barón, Angélica, Mendez, Alvaro (2019). La conexión China en la Política Exterior del Perú en el siglo XXI. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. picture_as_pdf
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Alden, Christopher (2019). Perú, China y la nueva multipolaridad: Perú, China y la nueva multipolaridad – navegar en la política internacional en tiempos inciertos. In Mendez, A., Alcade, J. & Alden, C. (Eds.), La conexión China en la Política Exterior del Perú en el siglo XXI (pp. 278-307). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. picture_as_pdf
  • Schenoni, Luis L., Belém Lopes, Dawisson, Casarões, Guilherme (2019). Myths of multipolarity: the sources of Brazilian overexpansion. (LSE Global South Unit Working Paper 1/2019). LSE Ideas. picture_as_pdf
    • 2018
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2018). Panama could soon become China’s gateway to Latin America thanks to an imminent free trade agreement.
  • Mendez, Alvaro (27 April 2018) The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank comes knocking on Latin America’s door is anyone home? LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Fornes, Gaston, Mendez, Alvaro (2018). The China-Latin America Axis: emerging markets and their role in an increasingly globalised world. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66721-8
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2018). Innovación y desarrollo: la academia como agente de cambio. In Moreno, C. I. & Perez Herrero, P. (Eds.), ¿Qué universidades necesita el siglo XXI? Reflexiones a cien años de la Reforma de Córdoba (pp. 75-80). Marcial Pons (Firm).
    • 2017
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2017). Colombian agency and the making of US foreign policy: intervention by invitation. Routledge.
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2017). Global governance in foreign policy. In Thies, C. (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis . Oxford University Press. picture_as_pdf
    • 2016
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2016). “We will not treat you like Africa”. democraciaAbierta, picture_as_pdf
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2016). China, Latin America and the environment in 2016 and beyond. Diálogo Chino,
  • Biswas, Rajiv, Mendez, Alvaro (2016). The long crisis facing emerging markets: a roadmap for policy reforms. (Policy Brief 1/2016). London School of Economics and Political Science, Global South Unit.
    • 2015
  • Junbo, Jian, Mendez, Alvaro (2015). Change and continuity in Chinese foreign policy:China’s engagement in the Libyan civil war as a case study. (Working Paper 5/2015). London School of Economics and Political Science, Global South Unit.
  • Mendez, Alvaro (2015). Discussions on the Global South. Concepts of the Global South – Voices from Around the World, 1/2015,
  • Guerra-Barón, Angélica, Mendez, Alvaro (2015). A comparative study of foreign economic policies: the CIVETS countries. (Working Paper 3/2015). London School of Economics and Political Science, Global South Unit.
    • 2012
  • Méndez, Álvaro (2012). Negotiating intervention by invitation: how the Colombians shaped US participation in the genesis of Plan Colombia [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • 2009
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Veira, M. (2009). UN Security Council reform and the challenge of south representation. In Wheeler, T. (Ed.), SA Yearbook of International Affairs 2008/9 (pp. 45-54). South African Institute of International Affairs.
    • 2003
  • Mendez, Alvaro (Ed.) (2003). Millennium: journal of international studies [Special issue]. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 32(3).
  • Mendez, Alvaro (Ed.) (2003). Millennium: journal of international studies [Special issue]. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 32(2).
  • Mendez, Alvaro (Ed.) (2003). Millennium: journal of international studies [Special issue]. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 32(1).