Giselle Datz
Associate Professor of Government & International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA
Longevity as transferable ‘risk’: the new financial dynamics of ageing
Giselle Datz - 10 May 2017Transfers between defined benefit pension schemes and (re)insurance companies are expanding the landscape of retirement risk shifts
Rio and the surreal: The 2016 Olympic Games in a ‘glocal’ context
Giselle Datz - 11 August 2016Paradoxically ritualistic and idiosyncratic, the Rio Olympics are set against a background of perplexing global and local dynamics which converge around the challenge of resilience.
Rio de Janeiro beyond the Olympic Games and the Zika controversy
Giselle Datz - 03 June 2016The real malaise of Rio is not just the Zika virus epidemic, but a fiscal and governance crisis that has engendered its own set of increasing dangers
Brazil on the edge: rhetoric and reality in Rousseff’s impeachment proceeding
Giselle Datz - 22 April 2016Despite claims of a coup, Brazilian democracy has proved more resilient so far than the country’s crumbling economy
Brazil’s ‘neodevelopmentalism’: autopsy and adjustment
Giselle Datz - 19 August 2015The problems the Brazilian economy now faces reveal that ‘hybrid’ development models are no panacea for sustained growth
Argentina’s latest ‘default’: it’s all in the contract!
Giselle Datz - 05 August 2014Without an effective story about the past, the present and the future, Labour will be unable to shape a new British political economy grounded in fairness
The restructuring ‘revolution’: sovereign debt deals are no longer such a familiar game
Giselle Datz - 04 November 2013Harnessing financial market innovation may help smooth the politics of sovereign debt
Brazil’s mounting challenges: ‘The Giant has Awakened’
Giselle Datz - 23 July 2013The approach of next year’s soccer World Cup is putting the spotlight on Brazil at a crucial moment in its development