Janie Hulse :: RESEARCH FROM THE FIELD

WHAT IS INSIGHTS FROM THE FIELD? Insights from the Field is a quarterly bulletin produced in Buenos Aires, Argentina with the aim of promoting perspectives from within the region on politico-economic and security issues affecting Latin America.
It draws on insights from regional scholars, government leaders and business executives. All featured reports are translated from their original Spanish or Portuguese into English and edited into an organized, easy-to-read format. Each edition provides a round-up of the most significant political, economic and security issues from the previous three months; three scholarly reports emanating from the field and an overview of key trends within one regional, strategic industry (defense, energy, telecommunications, etc.). It is a unique publication that focuses on political, economic, and security issues of a strategic nature. It fills the gap left by economic publications that overlook defense and defense publications that avoid economics. It is a tool designed for C-level executives and other high-level decision-makers with work in Latin America that must understand the region as the region understands itself.
WHY IS INSIGHTS DIFFERENT? *Insights* provides informed perspectives from within the region which, owed to both language and cultural barriers, often don’t make their way into the mainstream media and/ or publications from Washington policy centers. Publications out of Washington policy centers cover strategic issues in the region but lack opinions from people with a pulse on the daily goings-on. Its unique focus on politico-economics and defense security issues allows for a more comprehensive understanding of political motivations and areas of conflict which inevitably spill over into economics (and vice versa). Insights takes complex, often culturally-based concepts from their original language and relays them in an easy-to-read format in English. Reputable publications focused on economics often over-look defense while defense publications are light on economics. Insight’s Editor treats economics and defense as intimately intertwined. Insight’s Editor is not associated with any one political party -anywhere- nor does she have a political agenda. Content selection, therefore, is based on subject-matter relevance and level of strategic importance.	*Review Insights* Sponsorship and Advertising Options here.**
ABOUT THE EDITOR Janie Hulse is a Latin American analyst residing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She brings to the table over ten years professional research, communications and business management experience. She has provided strategic research, marketing and communications services to companies and public-sector organizations including KPMG Consulting, MercyCorps, ARD Inc, Latin Business Chronicle, the Economist Intelligence Unit, AMCHAM, US National Defense University and the U.S. Army War College. She holds a B.Sc. with Honors from Cornell University, a M.Sc. in Politics of Development in Latin America from London School of Economics, and a second M.Sc. from the Universidad del Salvador in Argentina. To read the Editor’s Client Testimonials, click here.
OCCASIONAL ADVISERS COL. (R) JOHN COPE, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) –U.S. National Defense University DR. EVAN ELLIS, Assistant Professor of National Security Studies, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies –U.S. National Defense University FERNANDO GUERRERO, J.D. , Vice President, Nextel Communications Argentina GENERAL (R) JULIO HANG, Director of the Institute for International Security and Strategic Affairs CARI - Argentine Council for International Relations DR. FRANCISCO PANIZZA, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics London School of Economics RICARDO RIVAS, Journalist, Academic and former Sub-Secretary of Communications for the Republic of Argentina J. PAUL JOHNSON, J.D., Latin American Specialist and Consultant The White House Writers Group FABIÁN CALLE, Professor at the Argentine Superior Joint War College, University Torcuato Di Tella and Catholic University of Argentina.