Professor Carol Wise

Professor, Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California (USC)

Professor Wise has written widely on trade integration, exchange rate crises, institutional reform, and the political economy of market restructuring in the Latin America region. Wise is author of the book, Dragonomics: How Latin America is Maximizing (or Missing Out) on China’s International Development Strategy (Yale University Press, 2020), which analyzes the rapid economic ties that have developed between China and Latin America since the 1990s. Professor Wise held the spring 2019 Fulbright-Masaryk University Distinguished Chair Grant, Czech Republic, and her latest research project compares the political economy of development in Latin America and Central/Eastern Europe.