Laurence Whitehead

Laurence Whitehead "is Official Fellow in Politics at Nuffield and Director of the Mexican Studies Centre. Among his special interests are US relations and European relations with Latin America and current processes of democratisation. He is the representative on the steering committee of the newly created Red Euro-Latinoamericano de Gobernabilidad par el Desarrollo, which is supported by the IDB and holds an annual conference in Barcelona. He is also Chair of the Europe-Latin American section of LASA and of Research Committee 13 (on Comparative Democratization) at IPSA. In that capacity he gave a keynote address to the annual conference of the Brazilian Association of Political Sciences in Rio (July 2004). In 2002 he occupied the Alfonso Reyes Visiting Professorship at the Institut des Hautes Etudes d'Amerique Latine in Paris. He also teaches the options on Mexican politics, the international relations of Latin America, and on comparative social revolutions at the Centre. His most recent publications are Democratization: Theory and Experience (Oxford University Press, 2002) and an edited volume Emerging Market Democracies: East Asia and Latin America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). Other publications include Toward Democratic Viability: the Bolivian Experience (Jointly edited with John Crabtree, Palgrave, 2001); International Dimensions of Democratisation (OUP 1996, enlarged paperback edition, 2001), two chapters for the Cambridge History of Latin America (on 'the development of state organisation since 1930', and on Bolivia since 1930) and a series of articles and chapters on various aspects of democratisation. Earlier publications include Transitions from Authoritarian Rule (jointly edited with Guillermo O'Donnell and Philippe Schmitter - Johns Hopkins University Press); Latin America Debt and the Adjustment Crisis (jointly edited with Rosemary Thorp, Macmillan); and The Central American Impasse (jointly edited with Giuseppe di Palma - Croom Helm). He has also written various articles about Bolivia and about Chile since Allende. He is editor of the OUP book series 'Oxford Studies in Democratisation'. He was Acting Program Director at the Center for US-Mexico Studies of the University of California, San Diego, in 1985-6 and co-ordinator of the Southern California workshop on Political and Economic Liberalisation in 1995."


 * Expert, Cuba Study Group
 * Editorial Board, Journal of Democracy

Academic Responsibilities

 * DATE                    Member, General Board of Faculties
 * DATE                    Chairman, Oxford Inter-Faculty Committee for Latin American Studies
 * DATE                    Chairman, Management Committee, Oxford Refugee Studies Programme
 * 1999 -                  Governor, Oxford Institute of Energy Studies
 * 1994-                   Series Editor, Oxford Studies in Democratisation, Oxford University Press
 * DATE                    Oxford University founder and representative, European Centre for the Study of Democratisation, Forlí
 * DATE                    Member, Standing Committee on Democratisation, European Consortium of Political Research
 * DATE                    Region Head for Latin America, Oxford Analytica

Research Fellowships/Lectureships

 * 1967-1968         Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute, London
 * 1968                     Visiting Scholar, Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (August)
 * 1973                     Visiting Fellow, CEPLAN, Santiago de Chile
 * 1976                     Visiting Lecturer, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima
 * 1979                     Visiting Fellow, Wilson Centre Latin American Programme, Washington DC (January-June)
 * Visiting Fellow, Colegio de México
 * 1980-1981         Senior Research Scholar, Wilson Centre Latin American Programme, Washington DC
 * 1982                     Visiting Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne
 * 1984                     Visiting Researcher, European University, Florence (October)
 * 1989                     Visiting Scholar, Instituto de Estudos Avançados, University of São Paulo
 * 1989                     Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Estudios Europeos, Havana (October)
 * 1991                     Visiting Scholar, Institute for East-West Security Studies, Prague (June)
 * 1995                     Visiting Scholar, CEDLA, Amsterdam (September)
 * 1997                     Visiting Researcher, Bolivian Ministry of Capitalisation, La Paz
 * Visiting Scholar, Max Weber College, Erfurt (November)
 * Visiting Lecturer, Oslo University International Summer School on Comparative Social Science (August)
 * 1998                     Visiting Lecturer, Humboldt University, Berlin (July)
 * Visiting Scholar, Max Weber College, Erfurt (December)

Select Other Positions

 * 1998-2001              President, CNRS Scientific Committee (for the Centre de Recherche et Documentation sur l’Amérique Latine)
 * 1998-2000         Member, Research Council, National Endowment for Democracy International Forum for Democratic Studies
 * 1991                     Consultant, Ford Foundation (on report about the Brazilian Association of Post-Graduate Research and Training in the Social Sciences (ANPOCS), Rio de Janeiro British Co-director, European Centre for the Study of Democratisation, University of Bologna, Italy (May)
 * 1990-1995         Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, American Council of Learned Societies and the SSRC (fellowship selection, project planning and conference monitoring)

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