Ryan C. Berg

Director, Americas Program
Ryan C. Berg

Ryan C. Berg is director of the Americas Program and head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America and a course coordinator at the United States Foreign Service Institute. His research focuses on U.S.-Latin America relations, strategic competition and defense policy, authoritarian regimes, armed conflict and transnational organized crime, and trade and development issues. Previously, Dr. Berg was a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he helped lead its Latin America Studies Program, as well as visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War Programme. Dr. Berg was a Fulbright scholar in Brazil and is a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member. He has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed academic and policy-oriented journals, including The Lancet, Migration and Development, the SAIS Review of International Affairs, and the Georgetown Security Studies Review. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN.com, Los Angeles Times, and World Politics Review, among other outlets. He routinely testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Dr. Berg obtained a PhD and an MPhil in political science and an MSc in global governance and diplomacy from the University of Oxford, where he was a Senior Hulme Fellow. Earlier, he obtained a BA in government and theology from Georgetown University. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and is conversational in Slovenian.

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The International Response to Maduro's Election Fraud

In this episode, Ryan C. Berg sits down with Thiago de Aragão, a senior associate with CSIS and CEO of Arko Advice, a political risk analysis firm based in Brazil to discuss the international community's response to developments in Venezuela, with a specific focus on Brazil's approach.

Podcast Episode by Ryan C. Berg and Thiago de Aragão — October 3, 2024

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The Global Impact of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

Please join us for the inaugural event of the CSIS Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department to discuss a collection of essays by CSIS scholars assessing the meaning of the election for Europe, Russia, Eurasia, the Indo-Pacific, the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East. 

Event — September 26, 2024

The 2024 Presidential Election and the United States’ Shared Neighborhood

CSIS Americas director Ryan C. Berg and deputy director and senior fellow Christopher Hernandez-Roy analyze the likely similarities and differences in how a potential Trump or Harris administration would engage with the Western Hemisphere.

Commentary by Ryan C. Berg and Christopher Hernandez-Roy — September 26, 2024

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The 2024 Presidential Election and the United States’ Shared Neighborhood

An audio version of “The 2024 Presidential Election and the United States’ Shared Neighborhood,” a new commentary by CSIS’s Ryan C. Berg and Christopher Hernandez-Roy. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

Podcast Episode by Ryan C. Berg — September 26, 2024

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AMLO’s Plan C and the North American Bloc, If We Can Keep It

CSIS Americas Director Ryan Berg analyzes the array of constitutional reforms championed by outgoing Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and their likely impact on North American economic relations.

Commentary by Ryan C. Berg — September 3, 2024

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AMLO’s Plan C and the North American Bloc, If We Can Keep It

An audio version of “AMLO’s Plan C and the North American Bloc, If We Can Keep It,” a new commentary by CSIS’s Ryan C. Berg. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

Podcast Episode by Ryan C. Berg — September 3, 2024

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