Laurence Whitehead
This year Laurence Whitehead comple=
ted his
stint as editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies and took up=
a
new responsibility as first Chairman of the Area and Development Studies
Committee within the Social Science Division. Building on earlier research =
on
citizen security he organized two conferences on this subject, one in El Salvador, and one in Oxford. He also contributed to related =
work
on Colombia.
However his main research interest is now shifting to Mexico,=
and at
the end of the year he was appointed the first Director of a new Centre for
Mexican Studies (to be inaugurated by President Fox in November). In June he
served for a month as Alfonso Reyes Visiting Professor of Mexican Studies at
the Institut des Haut Études d’Amerique Latine/Paris III. Most=
of
his publications this year related to the comparative politics of
democratization viewed more broadly (including the launch in Budapest of a book in Hungarian that
incorporates his work on East European topics). The main highlight was the
publication of his Democratization: Theory and Experience. He also
contributed to comparative research projects organised by the UNDP, UNRISD,=
and
the United Nations University, and to a study on the EU as ‘democracy
promoter’ in the Maghreb (including a first visit to Morocco=
). Other
publications concern the ‘transatlantic triangle’, especially t=
he
shifting relations between Europe, North America and Latin
America in the wake of September 11th.
Publications
Democratization: Theory and Expe=
rience (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002)
Laurence Whitehead Demokratizálodás: elm&eacu=
te;let
és tapasztalat. Bud=
apest,
XXI Század Intézet, 2001 (Translated into Hungarian by Gathy
Vera).
(editor) Eme=
rging
Market Democracies: East Asia and Latin America.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2=
002.
(editor with Lourdes Sola, andEduar=
do
Kugelmas) Banco Central: Autoridade Politica e Democratizaçao =
211;
Um Equilibrio Delicado (Sa=
o Paulo:
Fundação Getulio Vargas, 2002.
‘Reforms: Mexico
and Columbia’ in Manuel Antonio
Garretón and Edward Newman (eds.), Democracy in Latin
America: (Re) Constructing Political Society. Tokyo: United Nations Univer=
sity
Press, 2002.
‘Hacia una
reconfiguración del Triangulo Atlántico después de la
Guerra Fría’, in Klaus Bodemer, Wolf Grabendorff, Winfried Jung
and Josef Thesing (eds.), El Triangulo Atlantico: América Latina,
Europa y los Estados Unidos en el Sistema Internacional Cambiante (Berl=
in:
ADLAF, Adenauer Foundation, 2002.
‘El Reto de la Democra=
cia en
América Latina’, Revista de Occidente, 246, 2001.
‘Europe/Amériqu=
es
latines: la longue durée’, in Daniel Van Eeuwen (ed.), L=
217;Amérique
Latine et l’Europe à l’heure de la Mondialisation. <=
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‘Of Bubble=
s and
Buildings: Financial Architecture in a Liberal Democratic Era’, in Le=
slie
Elliott Armijo (ed.), Debating the Global Financial Architecture, Albany, NY:
SUNY Press, 2002.
(with Richard Gillespie) ‘Eur=
opean
Democracy Promotion in North Africa: Lim=
its
and Prospects’, Democratization 9, 2002.
‘Review of “Arguing Comparative Politics”=
217;, Journal
of Democracy, 13, 2002.