The Danish Institute of Human Rights and the Center for the Study of the Americas have initiated a joint publishing project. Scholars from both institutions as well as a number of other researchers will contribute to the volume which aims to explore the complexities of human rights understanding and implementation in a transatlantic perspective. Chapters include discussions of the historical development of human rights in the Americas and Europe as well as conceptual debates and case studies of local and regional human rights issues. The volume is expected to be published in early 2012.

The current academic debate on the new Latin American left ignores the fact that populist administrations face mounting allegations of corruption, which further undermine people's confidence in democratic institutions. This research project makes a preliminary attempt to address this problem by focusing on the administrations of Nestor Kirchner (2003-07) and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (2007-current). The research results will be published in an article in 2011.

Projections of Power in the Americas is an international, inter-university publication project, which has as its primary objective to investigate the ways in which power or the discourse of power is represented in or projected onto society (or segments of society) in the Americas. The current project will involve discussions of the framing of political discourses, symbolic representations of presidential power, iconography, the struggle over collective memories and the counter-strategies involved in notions of empowerment. The book will be published by Routledge and is expected to appear at the end of 2011.

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