UPCOMING EVENTS

UNM’s Political Science Department & the

 International Studies Institute Present:

 

“9/11 and U.S.-Latin American Relations”

 

Peter H. Smith

Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies, and Adjunct Professor of History

University of California, San Diego

 

 

Monday, January 23, 2012

3:30 - 4:30 pm

UNM Social Sciences Building

Political Science Department

Room #2069 (2^nd floor)

 

Peter H. Smith specializes in comparative politics, Latin American politics, and U.S.-Latin American relations. His major publications include Politics and Beef in Argentina: Patterns of Conflict and Change (1969), Argentina and the Failure of Democracy: Conflict among Political Elites, 1904-1955 (1974), Labyrinths of Power: Political Recruitment in Twentieth-Century Mexico (1979), Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations (1996; 2nd edition, 2000), and Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective (2005). He is co-author of Modern Latin America (1984), now in its sixth edition (2004) and a selection of the History Book Club. He is also the editor or co-editor of more than a dozen anthologies. Smith has served as president of the Latin American Studies Association and has been a consultant to the Ford Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and other institutions. At UCSD, Smith served as director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (1989-2001) and director of Latin American Studies (1994-2001). He is also the moderator of "HemiScope," a UCSD-TV news program about current events in Latin America that is broadcast via cable and satellite throughout the United  States.

 

This talk is made possible by the Lannan Foundation (www.lannan.org).