About the Department

Jorge I. Domínguez is Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Senior Advisor for International Studies to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University. He is the author or co-author of various books, among them Consolidating Mexico’s Democracy: The 2006 Presidential Campaign in Comparative Perspective; The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict, 2nd edition; The Construction of Democracy: Lessons from Practice and Research; Cuba hoy: Analizando su pasado, imaginando su futuro; Between Compliance and Conflict: East Asia, Latin America, and the “New” Pax Americana; Mexico’s Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000; The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century; Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America, 3rd ed.; Democratic Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean; Technopols: Freeing Politics and Markets in Latin America in the 1990s; To Make a World Safe for Revolution: Cuba's Foreign Policy; Economic Issues and Political Conflict: U.S.-Latin American Relations, and many articles on domestic and international politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. A past President of the Latin American Studies Association and a past Board Chairman of the Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities, he currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Political Science Quarterly, Latin American Research Review, Foreign Affairs en español, Cuban Studies, Foro internacional, and Istor, and is a Contributing Editor to Foreign Policy. He was Series Editor for the Peabody Award-winning Public Broadcasting System television series, Crisis in Central America. His current research focuses on the international relations and domestic politics of Latin American countries. For more information: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~jidoming.