Speaker Information

Global Issues 2013

Jorge Dominguez

Dr. Jorge I. Dominguez is Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico and vice provost for international affairs at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of various books, among them Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations: Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century?; Consolidating Mexico’s Democracy: The 2006 Presidential Campaign in Comparative Perspective; The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict; Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America; Between Compliance and Conflict: East Asia, Latin America, and the “New” Pax Americana; 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, 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 the Political Science Quarterly, Foreign Affairs en Español, Cuban Studies, Foro Internacional, and the Journal for Cold War Studies. He was series editor for the Peabody Award-winning Public Broadcasting System television series Crisis in Central America.