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Eduardo Gamarra
"Evo Morales, Bolivian Democracy, and U.S. Policy: Still on the Brink?"
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201
Eduardo Gamarra is Professor of Comparative Politics, Latin America, and the Caribbean, as well as previous director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University.
His research focuses on democratization, civil-military relations, and the political economy of narcotics trafficking in the Andean region and the Caribbean. He is currently studying U.S. policy toward Colombia and the migration of Colombians to the United States.
Author of more than forty articles, and several books, Gamarra is co-author or editor of Revolution and Reaction: Bolivia 1964-1985 (Transaction Publishers, 1988), Latin American Political Economy in the Age of Neoliberal Reform (Lyne Rienner Publishers 1994), Democracy Markets and Structural Reform in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico (Lyne Rienner Publishers, 1995), and Entre la Droga y la Democracia (Freiderich Ebert Foundation, 1994).
Over the course of the last fifteen years, Gamarra has offered consultation on Latin American issues to the Library of Congress and other governmental organizations. His expertise on Bolivia and other Latin American countries has been cited in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, El Tiempo de Bogota, El Mercurio de Chile, and La Razon de La Paz, Bolivia.
This event is sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies.
