Professor Javier Corrales

Javier Corrales is Professor of Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, specializing in Comparative Politics and International Relations of Latin America and the Caribbean. His most recent book, "Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Ch vez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela" (Brookings Institution Press, 2011), co-authored with Michael Penfold, won the Foreign Affairs award for Best International Relations Book on the Western Hemisphere for 2011. His research...See more

Javier Corrales is Professor of Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, specializing in Comparative Politics and International Relations of Latin America and the Caribbean. His most recent book, "Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Ch vez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela" (Brookings Institution Press, 2011), co-authored with Michael Penfold, won the Foreign Affairs award for Best International Relations Book on the Western Hemisphere for 2011. His research has been published in academic journals such as Comparative Politics, World Development, Political Science Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, World Policy Journal, Latin American Politics and Society, Journal of Democracy, Latin American Research Review, Studies in Comparative International Studies, Current History, and" Foreign Policy. "He is currently working on two book projects. One is a book project on Constitutional Assemblies and the rise of presidential powers in Latin America. The other is a co-authored project on Participatory Governance. In 2005, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2000, he became one of the youngest scholars ever to be selected as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He is on the editorial board of "Latin American Politics and Society" and "Americas Quarterly." Carlos A. Romero is a Venezuelan political scientist specializing in International Relations and Venezuelan Foreign Policy. He is Professor Emeritus in the Institute of Political Studies at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He has published five books and eight in collaboration. His articles have appeared in numerous Venezuelan and foreign journals. His most recent book is "Venezuela y la Integraci n Regional" (2008). He has been a research associate at the University of Pittsburgh, Aieti, St. Antony?'s College and Columbia University, and a Visiting Professor in Flacso-Ecuador; USP, Brasil; Memorial de Am rica Latina, Brasil; the Latin American Program of the Institute of Political Studies (Science Po) in France and the IHEAL-Sorbonne-3, also in France. He is currently working in a project book on Cuban relations with Venezuela. He is currently working in a project book on Cuban relations with Venezuela since 1999. See less