Alvaro Artigas is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Poltical Science at CERI (Centre détudes et de recherches internationales). His research focuses on the regulation of trade and industrial policies, particularly in the extractive sector and the financing of development programs in developing countries. Analysing in the same time the public policy, comparative politics and political economy, he examines the process of stabilization policy at national level. His most recent work focuses on the sharing of regionalization strategies from a comparative perspective between South America and South East Asia.