curriculum vitae

DAVID R. MARES

11/05

University of California, San Diego                                                                     5019 Bristol Road

Department of Political Science                                                                   San Diego, CA 92116

9500 Gilman Drive                                                                                               (619) 282-3515

La Jolla, CA 92093-0521                                                                      dmares@weber.ucsd.edu

(858) 534-4205

FAX (858) 534-7130

education

Ph.D.   Harvard University, 1982 (Political Science)

M.A.    Harvard University, 1978 (Political Science)

B.A.     Harvard College, 1976 (Government and Romance Languages and Literature, cum laude)

1992    Case Teaching Workshop, Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

1992    Game-Theory Teaching Workshop, University of California, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, Berkeley.

1992    Teaching Workshop on Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and Ballistic Missiles, University of California, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation with the Center for Technical Studies of Security, Energy and Arms Control, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

1989    East-West Summer Seminar on Global Security and Arms Control, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow, USSR.

1985        Summer Teaching Seminar, University of California, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, Irvine.

employment

1997-               Professor, Political Science, University of California, San Diego

1997-               Adjunct Professor, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

1988-97           Associate Professor, Political Science, University of California, San Diego

1988-97-         Adjunct Associate Professor, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

1995                Visiting Professor, Escuela Diplomática, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,  Government of Ecuador

1990                Fulbright Professor, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago

1990                Visiting Professor, School of International Relations, University of Souther California

1981-88           Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of California, San Diego

1982                Consultant, Instituto de Estudios Políticos Económicos y Sociales, Partido Revolucionario Institutional, Mexico City

1981-82           Consultant, Secretaría de Programación y Presupuesto, Government of Mexico, Mexico City

1981-82           Professor, Special Summer Program for Nicaraguan Diplomats, sponsored by  the Government of Mexico and the Colegio de México

1980-82           Professor, International Studies, El Colegio de México

HONORS and awards

2002-05      Associate Fellow, Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, D.C.

2001    Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for United States -Mexico Studies, University of California, San Diego

1997    Visiting Scholar, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

1992    Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs

1991    Fellow, Japan External Trade Research Organization

1990    Fulbright Professor, Chile

1989    Fellow, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California

1988    Young Scholar, The Sequoia Institute

1986-87      Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

1981    Graduate Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Latin American Program

1977-80      Graduate Fellowship for Mexican-Americans, Ford Foundation

1976    Magna cum laude Senior Honors Thesis, Harvard College

1976    Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship (declined), Harvard College

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

2001    Center for United States -Mexico Studies, University of California, San Diego

1997    Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

1997    Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador

1996    Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador

1995    Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador

1990    Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile

1986-87      Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

1982    Center for United States-Mexico Studies, University of California, San Diego

1981    Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Latin American Program

1980    Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

1979    Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de México, Mexico City

BOOKS

Drug Wars and Coffeehouses: The Political Economy of Drug Policy (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2005)

Latinoamérica:¿existe? (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Chile, 2004)

Violent Peace: Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America. (Columbia University Press, 2001)

The United States and Chile: Coming in from the Cold with Francisco Rojas Aravena, (Routledge 2001)

Civil-Military Relations: Building Democracy and Regional Security in Latin America, Southern Asia and Central Europe as editor, (Westview Press, 1998)

Penetrating the International Market: Theoretical Considerations and a Mexican Case.  (Columbia University Press, 1987).  Spanish translation, El Colegio de México, 1990.  Reviewed in Chinese, Latin American Studies 5:1992, Institute in Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

"El Sector Energético Latinoamericano ¿Fuente de integración o fuente de conflicto?"  Contrapunto America Latina forthcoming, 2006

“Defendiendo a América? La ineficiencia institucional del sistema Inter-Americano” Seguridad y Defensa III:2 August 2005

Jorge I. Dominguez with David Mares, Manuel Orozco, David Scott Palmer, Francisco Rojas and Andrés Serbín, “Disputas fronterizas en América Latina” Foro Internacional XLIV:3 July-September 2004

Mary Ann Pentz, David Mares, Steve Schinke and Luanne Rohrbach, “Political Science, Public Policy, and Drug Use Prevention” Substance Use and Misuse 39:10-12 2004

“U.S. Drug Policy and Mexican Civil-Military Relations: A Challenge for the Mutually     Desirable Democratization Process” Crime, Law and Social Change 2003

“Boundary Disputes in the Western Hemisphere: Analyzing their Relationship to Democratic        Stability, Economic Integration and Social Welfare” Pensamiento Propio 6:14 July-   December 2001; reprinted in Jorge I. Domínguez, ed., Conflictos Territoriales y     Democracia en América Latina Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2003

 “Deterrence in the Ecuador-Peru Enduring Rivalry: Designing Around Weakness” Security Studies 6:2 Winter 1996/97

"La Guerra Fría en los Conflictos Latinoamericanos: Mitos y Realidades," Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad, X:2 April-June 1995 

"Foreign Policy in the ABC: The Burden of the Past, The Hope for the Future," Latin American Research Review, 29:1 1994.

"State Leadership in Economic Policy: A Collective Action Framework with a Colombian Case," Comparative Politics, 25:4, July 1993.

"Escenarios de Seguridad en Europa Oriental y América Latina," Estudios Internacionales, XX, IV, January-March 1991.

"Middle Powers Under Regional Hegemony: To Challenge or Acquiesce in Hegemonic Enforcement," International Studies Quarterly, December 1988.

"Mexico's Foreign Policy as a Middle Power: The Nicaragua Connection 1884-1986," Latin American Research Review XXIII, No.3, 1988.

"Mexico's Challenge: Sovereignty and National Autonomy Under Interdependence," Third World Quarterly, 9:3, July 1988, pp. 788-803.  Chinese translation in Research Materials in Latin American Studies, No. 5, 1989.

"Explaining Choice of Development Strategies: Suggestions from Mexico 1970-1982," International Organization, 39:4, Autumn 1985

"La Política Comercial: Racionalización, Liberalización y Vulnerabilidad," Foro Internacional 95, January-Maarch 1984

"México y Estados Unidos: el vínculo entre el comercio agrícola y la nueva relación energética," Foro Internacional 85, July-September 1981

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITS

2005    Julio Larramendi Gallery, Havana, Cuba, Solo exhibition

2005    Interamerican Development Bank Staff Association Art Gallery                                                             Washington, DC, Solo exhibition

2005    FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador, Solo exhibition

2005    International Institute of Journalism/Fototeca, Havana, Cuba, Group Exhibition

2004    World Public Forum, Rhodes, Greece, Solo exhibition

2004    Galeria Fundación, Santiago, Chile, Solo exhibition

2004    Arte y Ciencia Gallery, FLACSO, Santiago, Chile, Solo exhibition

2003    Union Artworks, San Pedro, CA, Solo exhibition

2003    Point of View Gallery, San Pedro, CA, Group Exhibition

2003    Gallery A, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, Group Exhibition

2002    La Foto Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Solo exhibition

2002    Camera Exposure, San Diego, CA, Solo exhibition

2002    Buddha’s Lounge Two, West Hollywood, CA, Group Exhibition

2002    Gallery A, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, Group Exhibition

BOOK CHAPTERS AND MONOGRAPHS

“Assessing Security Arrangements in the Americas: Relevance and Efficiency” in Gordon Mace, Jean-Phillipe Thérien, and Paul Haslam, eds., Governing the Americas: Regional Institutions at the Crossroads Lynne Reinner, forthcoming 2006

“Natural Gas Pipelines in the Southern Cone” in David G. Victor, Amy M. Jaffe and Mark H. Hayes, eds., Geopolitics and Natural Gas From 1970 to 2030 Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2006

 “La participación de la sociedad civíl en la agenda hemisférica“ in Ayrton Fausto, ed., Anais do Seminário Internacional do Fórum Universitário MERCOSUL Rio de Janeiro: FOMERCO, forthcoming 2005

“El multilateralismo y la política exterior de Bush en el mundo post 11 de septiembre: ¿Ha habido algún cambio?” in Claudio Fuentes S., ed., Bajo la Mirada del Halcón Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblios, 2004

“¿Atados por la necesidad o caminando juntos? Respuestas cooperativas y conflictivas a los retos de la seguridad” in Agustín Maciel, ed., La seguridad nacional en las relaciones México-Estados Unidos San Luís Potosí: El Colegio de San Luís, 2003

“El terrorismo de alcance global: bases para evaluar su impacto en el sistema internacional y en América Latina” in Francisco Rojas Aravena, ed., Terrorismo de Alcance Global: Impacto y Mecanismos de Prevención en América Latina y El Caribe Santiago: FLACSO, 2003

“Wars on Drugs and Civil-Military Relations: Challenges for Democratizing Countries” in George Cristian Maior and Larry Watts, eds., Globalization of Civil-Military Relations: Democratization, Reform and Security Bucharest: Enciclopedica Publishing House, 2002

“Country Study: Ecuador” with Adrian Bonilla, in Crisis in the Andes? EU Response Capacities Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Conflict Prevention Network, Berlin, 2001

“Latin American Economic Integration And Democratic Control of the Military: Is There a Symbiotic Relationship?” in David Pion-Berlin, ed., Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: New Analytical Perspectives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001

“Boundary Disputes in the Western Hemisphere: An Overview of Where We Stand” Working Papers Inter-American Dialogue, 2001

“Manejo de crisis en un estado democrático” Cuadernos de Trabajo No. 14, Asunción, Paraguay: Centro Paraguayo para la Promoción de la Libertad Económica y de la Justicia Social, 2001

“Exploring the Impact of Economic Cooperation on Political and Security Relations between Argentina and Chile” report commissioned by The Henry L. Stimson Center on Economic Cooperation and Political and Security Relations, 2000 http://www.stimson.org/pubs.cfm?ID=2

“Estructura Institucional de un Estado en Función de la Defensa Nacional” Documento de Trabajo 7 Asunción, Paraguay: Centro Paraguayo para la Promoción de la Libertad Económica y de la Justicia Social, 2000 

Latin American Perspectives on the Causes, Prevention and Resolution of Deadly Intra- and Interstate Conflicts, 1982-1996. New York: Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, Web publication http://www.ccpdc.org/pubs/mares/mares.htm, 1999

“El Conflicto Ecuador-Perú Visto Desde Fuera: Un Análisis del Contenido de la Cobertura Periodística en los Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña, 1994-1998” in Adrian Bonilla, ed., Ecuador – Perú: horizontes de la negociación y el conflicto Quito: FLACSO-Ecuador, 1999

“Estructura Institucional de un Estado en Función de la Defensa Nacional” Cuadernos de Trabajo 7 Asunción, Paraguay: Centro Paraguayo para la promoción de la libertad económica y de la justicia social, CEPPRO. 1999

“Political-Military Coordination in the Conflict Resolution Process: The Challenge for Ecuador” in Gabriel Marcella and Richard Downes, eds., Security Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Resolving the Ecuador-Peru Conflict North-South Center Press, University of Miami, 1999

“Securing Peace in the Americas in the Next Decade“ in Jorge I. Dominguez, ed., The Future of Inter-American Relations New York: Routledge, 1999

“Strategic Balance and Confidence Building Measures in Latin America: The Historical Utility of an Ambiguous Concept” in Joseph S. Tulchin and Francisco Rojas Aravena, eds., Strategic Balance and Confidence Building Measures in the Americas Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 1998

with Fernando Durán and Johanna Oliver, Regional Report:  The Causes of Conflict in Central America The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations, 1998

with Steven Bernstein, “The Use of Force in Latin American Interstate Relations” in Jorge I. Dominguez, ed., International Security & Democracy: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Post-Cold War Era Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998; Spanish language reprint in in Jorge I. Domínguez, ed., Seguridad Internacional, Paz y Democracia en el Cono Sur Santiago: FLACSO-Chile, 1998

“Regional Conflict Management in Latin America: Power Complemented by Diplomacy” in David A. Lake and Patrick Morgan, eds., Regional Orders: Building Security in a New World University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1997

“Equilibrios Estratégicos y Medidas de Confianza Mutua: La utilidad histórica de conceptos ambiguos” in Francisco Rojas Aravena, ed., Balance Estrategico y Medidas de Confianza Mutua Santiago: FLACSO/P&SA/Wilson Center, 1997

“‘En attendant Godot’ Le multilateralisme a-t-il un avenir en Amerique latine? (Looking for Godot: Can Multilateralism Work in Latin America This Time?) in Michel Fortmann & Stephane Roussel, eds., Multilateralisme et Securite Regionale Quebec: Institut Quebecois des Hautes Etudes Internationales, 1996

“Strategic Interests in the U.S.-Mexican Relationship” in John Bailey and Sergio Aguayo Quezada, eds., Strategy and Security in U.S.-Mexican Relations: Beyond the Cold War San Diego: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 1996; reprinted in in Sergio Aguayo Quezada and John Bailey, eds., Las Seguridades de México y Estados Unidos en un Momento de Transición México: Siglo XXI, 1997

“Esquemas de seguridad regional: una perspectiva comparada” in Estudio Estratégico de América Latina Vol. 1994-1995 Chile y Brasil: Desafios de la Cuenca del Pacífico Santiago: FLACSO/IPRI/CLADDE 1995

"Grand Strategy and Strategic Interests in the U.S.-Mexico Relationship."  Working paper Series, Latin American Program, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1994.

"Inter-American Security Communities: Concepts and Challenges," in Lars Schoultz, William Smith and Augusto Varas, eds., Security, Democracy and Development in the Western Hemisphere Miami: Transaction Books,1994.

"Nuevas tendencias en la seguridad hemisférica: la aportación norteamericana" in Centro Latinoamericano de Defensa y Desarme and Programa de Estudios Conjuntos de Relaciones Internacionales de América Latina, eds., Estudio Estratégico de América Latina, 1992, Santiago, Chile: CLADDE-FLASCO-RIAL, 1993.

"Continuidad y cambio en la agenda de seguridad do los Estados Unidos" in Gral. Leopoldo Porras and Augusto Varas, eds., El Espacio: Nueva Frontera para la Cooperación Hemisférica Santiago, Chile: FLACSO, 1992

"The Logic of Inter-American Cooperation on Drugs: Insights from Models of Strategic Interaction," in Peter S. Smith, Drug Policy in the Americas Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992

"U.S. Trade in Mexican Economic Restructuring: Bilateralism Under a Multilateral Guise," in Michael Howard and Douglas Ross, eds., Mexico's Second Revolution? Burnaby Centre for International Affairs, Simon Fraser University, 1991

"Domestic Institutions and Shifts in Trade and Development Policy: Colombia 1951-1968" in John S. Odell and Thomas D. Willett, eds., International Trade Policies: Gains from Exchange Between Economics and Political Science University of Michigan Press, 1990.

with Walter S. Powell,  "Organizational Theory and the Development of a Nuclear Security Regime" in Robert Kahn and Mayer Zald, eds. Nations and Organizations Jossey-Bass, 1990.

"The U.S.-Mexico Winter Vegetable Trade: Climate, Economics and Politics" in Bruce F. Johnston, et al., eds., U.S.-Mexico Relations: Agriculture and Rural Development Stanford University Press, 1987.  Spanish translation in Lecturas del Fondo, 1989.

"Consequencias sociales de la crisis económica en la argricultura" in Francisco Carrada-Bravo, ed., Problemas Económicos de México Mexico: Trillas, 1988.

"Discussion on U.S.-Mexico Trade" in Consortium on Trade Research: Debt, Trade and Payments Issues of Developing Countries and U.S. Mexican Economic Interdependence Washington: International Economics Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1984

"Prospects for Mexico-U.S. Trade Relations in an Era of Economic Crisis and Restructuring" in Donald L. Wyman, ed., Mexico's Economic Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities San Diego: Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1983.

"Agricultural Trade: Domestic Interests and Transnational Relations" in Jorge I. Dominguez, ed., Mexico's Political Economy: Challenges at Home and Abroad Beverly Hills: Sage, 1982.

"Apuntes sobre la conceptualización de la frontera norte en un esquema de dependencia" in Mario Ojeda G., ed., Administración del desarrollo de la Frontera Norte Mexico: El Colegio de México, 1982.

"The Evolution of U.S.-Mexican Agrucultural Relations: The Changing Roles of the Mexican State and Mexican Agricultural Producers," Working Papers in U.S.-Mexican Studies 16 San Diego: Program in U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1981.

"La articulación nacional y local y el desarrollo rural: la irrigación," América Indígena XL: 3, July-September 1980

BOOK REVIEWS

Miguel Angel Centeno, Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America in Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Winter/Spring 2003

Guy Poitras, The Ordeal of Hegemony: The United States and Latin America in Political Science Quarterly.

Roderic A. Camp, Intellectuals and the State in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985), in Political Science Quarterly Spring 1987.

Ann L. Hollick, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Law of the Sea, in Foro Internacional October-December 1983.

WORK IN PROGRESS

with David Scott Palmer, War and Peace in the Amazon: Institutions, Power, and Political Leadership in Peru and Ecuador 1995-1998 (booklength MS)

PAPERS AND TALKS PRESENTED

Discussant, Workshop “Global Determinants of Defense Reform,” Naval Postgraduate       School, Monterrey September 9-10, 2005

“Democracy and the Threat of Terrorism” Research Committee on Armed Forces and Society RC # 24 International Political Science Association 2005 Conference:” The Military And Civil Society in Global Change: Security in an Age of Terrorism” Shanghai, China June 28, 2005

“La política y el foto ensayo” Jose Martí Instituto Internacional de Periodismo, Havana, Cuba, May 20, 2005

“La integración en América Latina“ Centro de Estudios de Información de la Defensa Havana, Cuba May 19, 2005

“Las relaciones y proyecciones de la política de los EEUU hacia América Latina” Centro de Estudios de América, Havana, Cuba May 18, 2005

Discussant, FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador April 19, 2005

Discussant, Research Protocol Meeting, “The Role of the National Oil Companies on World Energy Markets” Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, May 2, 2005

Discussant, Panel “The Mafia Kaleidoscope: How IR Theory Paradigms Inform Understanding of Transnational Organized Crime” International Studies Association Annual Meetings, Honolulu, Hawa’ii March 1-5,2005

Discussant, Panel “War, Peace and Regime Type in the Western Hemisphere” International Studies Association Annual Meetings, Honolulu, Hawa’ii March 1-5, 2005

“Explaining Inter-American Security Institutions: Goals, Strategies, Choices and Evolution“ Workshop "What Institutions for the Americas". Université Laval, Québec, Canada March 11 - March 13, 2005

“La participación de la sociedad civíl en la agenda hemisférica“ I  Seminário "A relação Estados  Unidos - América Latina na Ordem Mundial Hoje" Instituto de Relacoes Internacionais, Universidad Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2004

“Seguridad Humana en la Lucha Anti-terrorista Norteamericana” Annual Meetings, Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, October 2004

“Navigating Globalization” World Public Forum Conference “Dialogue of Civilizations” Rhodes, Greece September 29, 2004

“South American Gas Pipelines” Conference on Natural Gas Pipelines, Baker Institute, Rice University May 27, 2004

 “Los desafíos al multilateralismo: Estados Unidos y el sistema internacional” Workshop, “El efecto de la política exterior Estadounidense en el Cono Sur” FLACSO-Chile, March 27, 2004 Santiago, Chile

 “Los conflictos regionales, la violencia y su regulación” 51^st  Congreso de Latinoamericanistas, Santiago, Chile July 2003

“Survivability of Ecuadoran President Gutierrez” INR-NIC Workshop on Ecuador:  “Can President Gutierrez Stay the Middle Ground?” Arlington, Virginia 24 April 2003

“Relación EEUU-América Latina desde la perspectiva chilena” Annual Meetings, Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, March 27-29, 2003

“La Arquitectura del sistema internacional y América Latina.” Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencia Política July 9-11, 2002 Salamanca, Spain.

Commentator, Panel on U.S.-Latin American Relations, Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencia Política July 9-11, 2002 Salamanca, Spain

“Wars on Drugs and Civil-Military Relations: Challenges for Democratizing Countries” International Conference of the Research Committee on Armed Forces and Society of the International Political Science Association, with the sponsorship of the Romanian Presidency, the Romanian Ministry of Defense and the Romanian parliament. June 28-30, 2002 Bucharest, Romania

 “Does International Capital Produce Peace? Evidence from Militarized Incidents in the Western Hemisphere 1990-2000” co-authored with Daniel R. Lake, Western Political Science Association, Annual Meetings, Long Beach, CA March 2002

“Pequeños países, nuevos conflictos: propuestas políticas y estratégias regionales” Conference “Pequeños Países Frente a la Globalización, Sociedad, Defensa y Seguridad” sponsored by the Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, The National Endowment for Democracy and ILDIS, Quito, March 2002

“El terrorismo de alcance global: bases para evaluar su impacto en el sistema internacional y en América Latina” Conference Terrorismo de Alcance Global: Impacto y Mecanismos de Prevención en América Latina y El Caribe, FLACSO-Chile, Santiago November 28, 2001

“Boundary Disputes in the Western Hemisphere: Analyzing Their Relationship to Democratic Stability, Economic Integration and Social Welfare” workshop Boundary Disputes in Latin America Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, D.C., February 26, 2001

“Conceptualizing Mexican Grand Strategy, 1823-2000” Seminar Series Center for U.S.-Mexico Relations, University of California, San Diego, January 24, 2001

“Military and Security Institutions in Developing Countries: Challenges for Governance and Conflict Management” workshop Political-Military Relations Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’, The Hague, January 16, 2001

“A Bargaining Model of Power Sharing Among Civil War Rivals” workshop Power Sharing and Internal Conflict Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’, The Hague, January 15, 2001

“Drug Interdependence in a Globalized Economy” Regional Security Speaker Series, University of San Diego, November 15, 2000

“Atados por la Necesidad o Caminando Juntos? Respuestas Cooperativas y Conflictivas a los Retos de la Seguridad” workshop National Security Issues in U.S.-Mexican Relations. El Colegio de San Luis, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, October 5-6, 2000

“El Manejo de Crisis en un Contexto de Democracia” workshop, Instituto de Altos Estudios Estratégicos Asunción, Paraguay July 18, 2000

"Economic Integration and Security in South America" Regional Security Speaker Series, University of San Diego May 8, 2000

“The Security Dilemma and Economic Integration: Suggestions from Latin America” Program in International Security Policy, University of Chicago, April 18, 2000

“The Challenge for Security Studies in Latin America” Latin American Studies Association Annual Meetings, March 17, 2000

“Chile-U.S. Relations After the End of the Cold War” workshop U.S.-Latin American Relations, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City, August 1999

Six presentations on civil-military relations at Paraguayan military centers of education for the U.S. Embassy, Asuncion, Paraguay, June 1999

“Estructura Institucional de un Estado en Funcion de la Defensa Nacional” workshop Defensa Nacional: Estructura institucional del Estado. Funciones y Responsabilidades organized by CEPPRO and USAID. Asuncion, Paraguay June 18-19, 1999

Chair, panel “Conflicts from the Perspective of Assessment Models” colloquium, Violent Conflict: Implications for International Development, sponsored by Tulane University Institute for International Development and Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Arlington, VA May, 1999

“The Origins and Evolution of Civil War in Central America” Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, Netherlands, November 1998

“The Ecuador-Peru Conflict Seen From Afar: A Content Analysis of Major Newspaper Coverage in the U.S. and Great Britain 1994-1998” conference Ecuador y Peru: vecinos amigos. Organized by FLACSO-Ecuador and DESCO-Peru and sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Quito, Ecuador October 19-20, 1998

“Understanding the Life Cycle of Central America’s Civil Wars” Dakar, Senegal, October, 1998

“The Myth of U.S. Management of Conflict in Latin America” Security Studies Seminar, MIT December, 1997

“Violent Peace: Explaining the Use of Force in Latin American Foreign Policy” John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, December 9, 1997

“Military Professionalization and Democratic Politics: Mutually Reinforcing or Threatening?” Boston Area Committee on Latin American Studies, Cambridge, MA November 11, 1997

“Still Much to Fight About: MIDs in Latin America” David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, October, 1997

“Military Professionalization and Force Modernization as a Contribution to Democratic Consolidation” Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, October 22, 1997

“Political-Military Coordination in the Conflict Resolution Process:The Challenge for Ecuador” conference Security Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Lessons from the 1995 Ecuador-Peru Conflict Co-sponsored by the U.S. Southern Command, the U.S. Army War College, and The North-South Center of the University of Miami. Miami, December 5-6, 1996

“Lessons from the Failure of Central American Conflict Management in the One Hundred Hours War” Conference Causes of Conflict in the Third World sponsored by the Fundación Arias para la Paz and the Netherlands Institute of International Relations, December 9, 1996

“Democracia y seguridad” seminar Ecuadorian Air Force, sponsored by the Asociación Lationamericana de los Derechos Humanos, Quito, July 1996

“Ethnic Groups in U.S. Foreign Policy: Theoretical Considerations” Western Political Science Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, March 1996

“Civil-Military Relations and the Regional Neighborhood” Conference, Civil-Military Relations in Comparative Perspective, San Diego, November 1995

 “Deterrence and Democracies: The Case of Ecuador and Peru” Conference, The Rational Deterrence Theory Debate: Success and Failure in Enduring Rivalries Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA September, 1995

“The Use of Force in Latin American Interstate Relations” conference Security, Peace, and Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for the Post-Cold War Era Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, D.C., September, 1995

“Balances estratégicos en América Latina” workshop Balance Estratégico y Medidas de Confianza Mútua, Ministry of Foreign Relations, Mexico City, August 1995

“La Disuasión y el Conflicto Ecuador-Peru” Escuela de Guerra, Ecuadoran Air Force, August 1995

“Militarized Conflicts in Latin America” Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, D.C., June 1995

“Looking for Godot: Can Multilateralism Work in Latin America This Time?” Centre for International Relations, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada May 1995

“Diversionary Conflict in Venezuelan-Colombian Relations” Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, UCSD, April, 1995

“Las Relaciones C”ivico-Militares y el Papel de los Militares Latinoamericanos en la Pos-Guerra Fria” Instituto de Altos Estudios de la Defensa Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela March 1995

“Building a Workable Relationship Between Civilians and the Military” United States Air Force Special Operations School, Hurlburt Field, Florida, March 1995

“The Failure of the Balance of Power in the Ancient Mediterranean: Alexander and Rome” Workshop, Politics in the Ancient World, University of California, San Diego

Participant, workshop North American Security in the Time of NAFTA. National Defense University, Washington, D.C., September 1994.

Participant, conference Sociedad y Política: México y Estados Unidos.  Una Visión Reciproca.  El Colégio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico, August 1994.

“The Organization of Security in Latin America,” workshop Regional Security, Laguna Beach, CA, June 1994.

“Establishing Effective Civilian Oversight: Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela Compared,” workshop Civil-Military Relations in Latin American: Trends in Strengthening Civil Authority Over the Armed Forces. Evidence Based Research, Central Intelligence Agency, Vienna, Virginia, June 1994.

“Regional Security Regimes: A Comparative Perspective,” conference Post Cold War International Security in Latin America. Center for Strategic Studies, Brasilia, Brazil, May 1994.

"Democratic Government and the Future Patterns of Civil-Military Government in South America," conference Global Change and Hemispheric Security. Sponsored by the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and Fundaycucho, Peru at Harvard University, November 1993.

Participant, Fifth American-Argentine Forum. co-sponsored by the Inter-American Dialogue and the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, Airlie House, Virginia, November 1993.

"Realism and Foreign Policy," conference Neorealism and Interdependence: Studying the International Relations of the Americas Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico City, October 1993.

Participant, workshop Security in the Americas, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., September 1993.

"Militarized Interstate Disputes and Institutional Constraints: Evidence from Latin America," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1993.

"Strategic Interests in the U.S.-Mexico Relationship," Study Group on Mexico-U.S. Strategic Interests and Perspectives, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., June 11, 1993.

 "La agricultura en la política exterior norteamericana" Grupo de Trabajo sobre Agrucultura, Ganadería y Silvicultura de la Red Nacional de Investigadores Sobre la Cuenca del Pacífico, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Tepíc, Mexico, June 1993.

Organizer, "Security and the Military in South America" workshop, University of California, San Diego, June 4-5, 1993.

"The Dangers of Reconceptualizing Security," conference Regional Security Regimes, University of California, San Diego, March 1993.

"Inter-American Security Communities: Concepts and Challenges," conference Security, Democracy and Development in the Western Hemisphere, North-South Center, University of Miami, February, 1993.

Participant at the workshop on "Reconceptualizing Regions," University of California, Irvine, February 1993.

"The Future of Conflict Resolution in the Western Hemisphere: International Influences," conference Redefining National Security, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, D.C., November 1992.

"National Interests and Strategic Options in the U.S.-Mexico Relationship after the Cold War," workshop U.S. and Mexican National Interests and Strategic Options in the Post-Cold War Era, Tepoztlan, Mexico, October 1992.

"South American Security Relations in the Post-Cold War," Third Annual Workshop on Latin American Security Issues, sponsored by the Defense Intelligence College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 1992.

Participant, workshop Global Transformations and Peace: Arms Control, Disarmament and the Resolution of Conflicts in the Western Hemisphere in the Post-Cold War Period, Miami, February 1992.

Organizational Meeting for the "Study Group on Mexico-U.S. Security Interests and Perspectives," funded by the MacArthur Foundation and Coordinated by Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University, held in San Diego, March 1992.

"Continuidad y cambio en la agenda de seguridad de los Estados Unidos" workshop sponsored by the Centro de Estudios Aeronauticos y del Espacio, Chilean Air Force Academy, Santiago, Chile, November 1991.

"Molding Social Coalitions in Favor of Free Trade: Chile and Mexico Compared," workshop The Politics of North American Free Trade, University of California, Berkeley, November 1991.

Discussant, Inter-University Seminar on the Armed Forces and Society, Baltimore, October 1991.

"Nuevas tendencias en la seguridad hemisférica:la aportación norteamericana" Annual Convention, Relaciones Internacionales de America Latina, Asunción, Paraguay, June 1991.

"Post Cold-War Security Issues in South America," workshop Conceptual Approaches in the Third World,