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Laurence Whitehead, M.A.
Visiting Scholar
Based in Bologna, Italy
Background and Education
Official fellow in Politics and director of the Mexican Studies Programme, Nuffield College, Oxford; representative on the steering committee of the newly created Red Euro-Latinoamericana de Gobernabilidad para el Desarrollo, which is supported by the IDB; chair of the Europe-Latin American section of LASA and of the Research Committee on Comparative Democratization at IPSA; held the Alfonso Reyes Visiting Professorship at the Institut des Hautes Etudes d'Amerique Latine in Paris (2002); was acting program director at the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies of the University of California, San Diego (1985-1986) and coordinator of the Southern California workshop on Political and Economic Liberalisation (1995); M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford
Democratization: Theory and Experience (2002); Emerging Market Democracies: East Asia and Latin America, editor (2002); Toward Democratic Viability: the Bolivian Experience co-editor, (2001); International Dimensions of Democratisation (1996, 2001); a series of articles and chapters in the Cambridge History of Latin America: Latin America Debt and the Adjustment Crisis, co-editor (1987); Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, co-editor (1986); The Central American Impasse, co-editor (1986); author of various articles about Bolivia and Chile since Allende; editor of the OUP book series 'Oxford Studies in Democratisation'
- Regions
- Latin America
- Topics
- American Foreign Policy
- European Union Foreign Policy
- Foreign Languages
- Spanish