Piero Gleijeses, Ph.D.
Professor of American Foreign Policy

Expertise

Geographic Areas
Sub-Saharan Africa | Central America and the Caribbean

Issues
American foreign policy

Background and Education
Awards include Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships and Medal of Friendship from the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba (2003); Ph.D., international relations, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva

Foreign Languages
Afrikaans; French; German; Italian; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish

Publications
The Cuban Drumbeat: Castro's Worldview (2009); Cuba y África: Historia común de lucha y sangre, co-author (2007); Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976 (2002), which won the 2002 Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States (1991); Politics and Culture in Guatemala (1988); Tilting at Windmills: Reagan in Central America (1982); The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutionalist Revolt and American Intervention (1978); articles in numerous newspapers and professional journals