Research

Research Interests

• Global Political Economy
• Environmental Governance and Extractive Industries
• China–Latin America Relations
• South–South Cooperation
• Quantitative and Mixed Methods in International Relations

Current Research

My dissertation examines how the structural and instrumental power of Chinese firms shapes host-state capacity to enforce environmental regulation in Chile's extractive sector, contributing to debates on the political economy of Chinese overseas investment and comparative environmental governance. Drawing on a mixed-methods design that combines quantitative analysis, process-tracing of three firms varying in ownership structure, and semi-structured interviews with Chilean decision-makers, I argue that regulatory shortfalls are not uniform but contingent on the degree of central government control over the investing firm and its embeddedness in local decision-making networks — findings that extend structural power theory to the extractive context of the Global South.

I am affiliated with the Millennium Nucleus on the Impacts of China in Latin America and the Caribbean (ICLAC), where I contribute to collaborative projects on Chinese investment patterns, green transitions, and socio-environmental governance in the region.

Lima, Peru. CECHAP / 2025.

Selected Conference Presentations