Studying the State

Esteban Nicholls completed his doctoral studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada (2014), where he received the Senate Medal for his doctoral work. He currently works as Director of the Latin American Studies Doctoral Programme and as Aggregate (Associate) Professor of Social and Global Studies at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador. Dr Nicholls’s recent publications include "The Universities Project: A Radiography of a Failed State Scheme." (2018). In Enrique Ayala Mora and Carlos Larrea (Eds.), Ecuador Today. "La relación entre capacidad y autoridad en el Estado: La construcción de un Estado "Excepcionalista" en Ecuador." (2017). European Review of Latin American Studies, 103 (Co-authored with Dr. Pablo Andrade).

• Introduction: Studying the state: a Global South perspective Esteban Nicholls 1. Ontological disputes between Indigenous communities and the state in Bolivia Cristina Rojas 2. The strategic use of radical indigenous narratives by the Ecuadorian state Esteban Nicholls 3. Hegemonic power networks and institutional configuration for illicit purposes Carlos Antonio Flores Pérez 4. Chinese engagement in Africa and Latin America: does it matter for state capacity? Dan Banik & Benedicte Bull 5. China and the decaying of socialist rentierism in Venezuela: instability and the prevalence of non-interventionism Antulio Rosales 6. Polycentric hierarchies and institutional complementarities in the semi-periphery: state capacities and energy policies in the BRIC countries Carlos Henrique Vieira Santana