Associate Director for
Research and Publications, Professor

202.685.4670 CHDS Main
chdsacademics@ndu.edu

Areas of Expertise:

•International Affairs
•Latin American Politics & Development
•American Foreign Policy
•International and Comparative Politics
•Development Policy
•European Studies
•Asian Studies
•Public Policy and State-Society Relations
•Comparative Democratization

Biography:

Howard J. Wiarda is the Associate Dean for Research and Publications and a Professor for National Security Policy at CHDS. He also serves as Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and founding head of the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He is also a senior associate at CSIS and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. Over the past 25 years, he has divided his time among the academic, policy, and think tank worlds. He has been visiting scholar/research associate at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University; resident scholar and founding director of the Center for Hemispheric Studies at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; visiting professor at MIT, Georgetown, and George Washington Universities; course chairman at the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State; lead consultant to the National Bipartisan (Kissinger) Commission on Central America; and Thorton D. Hooper Fellow in International Security Affairs at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

A prolific author, Dr. Wiarda has written or edited over 70 books and is the author of over 300 scholarly articles, book chapters, op-eds, and congressional testimonies. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Florida, and an M.S. degree from the National Defense University. He has been a post-graduate scholar at Harvard and Ohio State Universities, and he holds an honorary doctorate from Nizhny Novgorod State University in Russia.

Publications:

• "From Bush to Bush:  American Foreign Policy in the New Millennium" (forthcoming).
•Constitutional Coups? Military Interventions in Latin America; June 27, 2011; CSIS
•Policy Papers on the Americas: U.S. Policy & Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean; Volume VI, 1995; CSIS
•Globalization: Universal Trends, Regional Variations, Editor and coauthor (Hanover, N.H.: New England University Press, 2007).
•The Dutch Diaspora: Fragments of the World The Netherlands Created in America, Asia, Latin America, and Europe East and West (New York: Lexington Press, 2007).
•Conservative Braintrust: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2009).
•Harvard and the Center for International Affairs: Think Tank, Research Center, and Incubator of Presidents (completed, forthcoming).
•Think Tanks and Foreign Policy: The Foreign Policy Research Institute and Presidential Politics(completed, forthcoming)
•Adventures in Research: A Memoir 4 volumes (Lincoln, NE: iUniverse/Random House, 2006-07).
• Volume I: Latin America
• Volume II: Europe
• Volume III: The Wider World
• Volume IV: Return Visits
•Comparative Politics.  A six-volume edited set, "Critical Concepts in Political Science," published by Routledge Publishers of London and Oxford. Individual volumes on:
-Comparative Politics: History, Theory, Context, edited by Howard J. Wiarda
-Western Europe and the United States: Foundations of Comparative Politics. With Paul S. Adams and Paul Rego.
-The Politics of Asia.  With Lena Tan.
-Post-Communist Politics and Change in Russia and East/Central Europe. With      Jacqueline McLaren Miller.
-Developing Nations: Latin America, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. With Zuhre Aksoy and Yohannes Woldemariam.
-Comparative Public Policy.  With Brenda Bushouse.
•Comparative and International Politics. A four-volume set published by Rowman and Littlefield. Individual volumes on:
-Dilemmas of Democracy in Latin America: Crisis and Opportunity (2005).
-Development on the Periphery: Democratization in Southern and Eastern Europe (2005).
-Comparative Politics: Issues and Approaches (2006).
-The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: The Effects of a Divided America (2006).
•Political Development in Emerging Nations (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson, 2004).
•Arriving at the End Game:  The Politics of EU and NATO Enlargement (Vienna:  Austrian Institute for International Affairs, 2002); American edition by Heldref Publications, special issue of World Affairs, 164 [Spring 2002].
•Is Civil Society Exportable?  The American Model and Third World Development (Washington, DC:  Aspen Institute, 2002; commercial edition Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 2002).
•Corporatism and Authoritarianism in Latin American – Revisited, Editor and coauthor (Gainesville, FL:  University of Florida Pres, 2004).
•The Portuguese Legacy in Asia:   Politics, Ideas, Institutions (Lisbon:  Oriente Foundation and the Portuguese Center for the Study of Southeast Asia, 2002; American edition in Portuguese Studies.
•Comparative Democracy and Democratization Editor and coauthor (Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace, 2001; Chinese edition, Peking University Press, 2006).
•Catholic Roots and Democratic Flowers: Politics in Spain and Portugal coauthor Margaret MacLeish Mott (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000).
•Policy Passages: Career Options for Policy Wonks Editor and coauthor (Westport, CT:  Greenwood Publishers, 2002).
•An Introduction to Latin American Politics and Development, coauthor, Harvey F. Kline (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001; 2nd edition, 2006).
•The Soul of Latin America: The Political Theory and Political Tradition of Latin America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
•European Politics in the Age of Globalization Editor and coauthor (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 2000).
•Cracks in the Consensus:  Debating the Democracy Agenda in U.S. Foreign Policy (New York:  "Washington Papers", Series Praeger Publishers for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997).
•Non-Western Theories of Development:  Global Trends versus Regional Norms, Editor and coauthor (Fort Worth:  Harcourt Brace, 1998; Chinese edition, Peking University Press, 2006).
•American Foreign Policy:  Actors and Processes (New York:  Harper Collins, 1996).
•Iberia and Latin America:  New Democracies, New Policies, New Connections (Washington, DC:  Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).
•Universities, Think Tanks, and War Colleges:  The Main Institutions of American Academic Life (Washington, DC, and Princeton, NJ: XLibris/McGraw Hill, 1999).
•Corporatism and Comparative Politics:  The Other Great "Ism" (Armonk, NY:  M.E. Sharpe, 1996).
•Latin American Politics:  A New World of Possibilities (Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth, 1994); Chinese edition published by Chinese Institute of Social Studies, Beijing, 1998.
•Democracy and Its Discontents:  Development, Interdependence, and U.S. Policy in Latin America (Washington, DC:  Rowman and Littlefield, 1995).
•An Introduction to Comparative Politics:  Concepts and Processes (Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth, 1993; second edition, 1999; Japanese edition, Toshindo Publishers, 2001; Chinese edition, Peking University Press, 2006).
•U.S.-Foreign and Strategic Policy in the Post-Cold War Era:  A Geopolitical Perspective (New York:  Greenwood Press, 1995).
•From Reagan to Bush:  U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s (New York:  New York University Press, 1992).
•Politics in Iberia:  The Political Systems of Spain and Portugal (New York, Boston, and Chicago:  The Little Brown Series in Comparative Politics, Harper Collins, 1992).
•The Democratic Revolution in Latin America (New York:  A Twentieth Century Fund Book, Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1990).
•Foreign Policy Without Illusion:  How Foreign Policy Works and Fails to Work in the United States (Chicago:  Little Brown/Scott Foresman, 1990)
•On the Agenda:  Current Issues and Conflicts in U.S. Foreign Policy, Editor (Chicago:  Lit­tle Brown/Scott Foresman, 1990).
•Latin American Politics and Development (Boston:  Houghton-Mifflin, l979, Editor and co-author with Harvey F. Kline.  Revised second edition, Westview Press, l985; 3rd edition, 1990; 4th edition, 1996; 5th edition, 2000; 6th edition 2006).
•The Politics of External Influence in the Dominican Republic (Stanford and New York:  Hoover Insti­tution and Praeger Publishers, 1988).  Coauthor with Michael J. Kryzanek.  Spanish language edi­tion, 1992.
•Portugal at the Polls (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1988).  Coedited with Howard Penniman and Thomas Bruneau.
•The Transition to Democracy in Spain and Portugal (Washington, D.C.:  University Press of America, 1988).  With Ieda Siqueira Wiarda.
•"The Vulnerabilities of Communist Regimes," Special Issue of World Affairs (Spring, 1988), Guest Editor.
•The Relations Between Democracy, Development, and Security:  Implications for Policy (New York:  Global Economic Action Institute, 1988).  Editor and Consul­tant
•Latin America at the Crossroads:  Debt, Development, and the Future (Boulder, CO:  Joint publica­tion of American Enterprise Institute and Westview Press, 1987)
•The Iberian-Latin American Connection:  Implications for U.S. Policy (Boulder, CO:  Joint publica­tion of AEI and Westview Press, l986), editor and co-author
•The Soviet Presence in Latin America and the Caribbean (Washington, DC:  AEI, 1987).  Co-author with Mark Fal­coff
•Finding Our Way:  Toward Maturity in U.S.-Latin American Relations (Washington, DC:  University Press of America, 1987).
•"Dealing with Dictatorships in Decline:  U.S. Policy Toward Authoritarian Regimes" Special Issue of World Affairs (Spring, 1987) Guest Editor.
•"Southern Europe and the Mediterranean," Special Issue of the Foreign Policy and Defense Review, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1986) Guest Editor.
•Ethnocentrism and American Foreign Policy:  Can We Understand the Third World? (Washington:  Ameri­can Enterprise Institute, 1985).
•Report of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America (Washington:  Gov­ernment Printing Office, 1984; New York:  MacMillan, 1984).  Co-author and Lead Consultant
•High Road to Economic Justice:  A Report to the President and Congress on U.S. Encouragement of Employee Stock Ownership Plans in Central America and the Caribbean, by the Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice (Washington, D.C.:  Government Printing Office, 1987).  Co-author and member of the White House Task Force
•"The Rising Soviet Presence in Latin America," Special Issue of World Affairs, 149 (Fall, 1986).  Guest editor.
•"U.S. Policy in Central America:  Consultant Papers for the Kissinger Commission," Special Issue of the Foreign Policy and Defense Review, V (1984) Guest Editor.
•"The Alternative Futures of Latin America," Special Issue of the Foreign Policy and Defense Review, V (1985) Guest Editor.
•In Search of Policy:  The United States and Latin America (Washington, D.C.:  Ameri­can Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1984).
•Rift and Revolution:  The Central American Imbroglio (Washington, D.C.:  Ameri­can Enterprise Insti­tute, 1984).  Editor and contributor.  Spanish language edition:  Con­flicto y revolución (Buenos Aires:  Tres Tiempos, 1986).
•The Crisis in Latin America:  Strategic, Economic and Political Dimensions (Washington, D.C.:  Amer­ican Enterprise Institute, 1984). Editor.
•Changing Dynamics of the Brazilian Economy (Washington, D.C.:  American Enter­prise Institute, 1983), co-edited with Janine T. Perfit.
•Trade, Aid, and U.S. Economic Policy in Latin America (Washington, D.C.:  Ameri­can Enterprise Insti­tute, 1983), co-edited with Janine T. Perfit.
•Human Rights and U.S. Human Rights Policy (Washington, D.C.:  American Enter­prise Institute, 1982), Editor and co-author.  Chinese edition published by, Chi­nese Associ­ation for Human Rights.
•"The Crisis in Central America," Special issue of the Foreign Policy and Defense Review, Vol. IV, No. 2 (1982), Guest Editor.
•The Dominican Republic:  Caribbean Crucible (Boulder, CO:  Westview Press, 1982).  Co-author with Michael J. Kryzanek.  Paperback edition, 1983; second edition, 1992.
•From Corporatism to Neo-Syndicalism:  The State, Organized Labor, and the Changing Industrial Rela­tions Systems of Southern Europe (Cambridge:  Center for European Studies, Harvard Uni­versity, 1981); reprinted in Richard Tomasson (ed.) Comparative Social Research Vol. V. (Westport, Con­necticut:  JAI Press, 1982) 3-57.
•Politics and Social Change in Latin America:  The Distinct Tradition (Amherst:  Univer­sity of Mas­sachusetts Press, 1974; revised second edition, 1982; 3rd edi­tion, West­view Press, 1992; 4th edition, Greenwood Press, 2004, with Margaret MacLeish Mott.
•Corporatism and National Development in Latin America (Boulder, CO:  Westview Press, 1981); Paper­back edition, 1982; Portuguese language edition published as O Modelo Corporativo na America Latina e a Latinoamericanizacao dos Estados Unidos (Rio do Janeiro:  Ed. Vozes, 1983).
•The Continuing Struggle for Democracy in Latin America (Boulder, CO:  Westview Press, 1980).  Editor and co-author.  Text edition, 1981.
•Critical Elections and Critical Coups:  State, Society and the Military in the Pro­cesses of Latin American Development (Athens, OH:  Center for International Studies, Ohio University, 1979).
•Corporatism and Development:  The Portuguese Experience (Amherst:  University of Massachusetts Press, 1977).
•Transcending Corporatism?  The Portuguese Corporative System and the Revolu­tion of 1974 (Columbia:  Institute of International Studies, University of South Carolina, 1976).
•Population, Internal Unrest, and U.S. Security in Latin America (Amherst, Mass.:  Uni­versity of Mas­sachusetts, Program in Latin American Studies, Occasional Papers Series #18, 1986).  With Iêda Siqueira Wiarda.  Reprinted in John Saun­ders (ed.), Population Growth in Latin America and U.S. National Security (Boston:  Allen and Unwin, 1986) 151-82; briefer versions printed in World Pop­ulation News Service Popline, 7 (May, 1985) and in Draper Fund Report, No. 14 (September, 1985), pp. 20-24.
•Dictatorship, Development and Disintegration:  Politics and Social Change in the Dominican Repub­lic (Ann Arbor:  Xerox University Microfilms Monograph Series for the Program in Latin Ameri­can Studies of the University of Mas­sachusetts, 1975).  3 volumes.
•The Dominican Republic:  Nation in Transition (New York:  Frederick A. Praeger, 1969, British edi­tion published by Pall Mall Press, London, 1969).
•The Brazilian Catholic Labor Movement:  The Dilemmas of National Development (Amherst, MA:  Labor Relations and Research Center, University of Mas­sachusetts, 1969), Portuguese edition published as O Movimento Operario Catolico Brasileiro:  Os Dilemas do Desenvolvimento Nacional (Rio de Janeiro:  Centro Joao XXIII, 1974).
•"The New Powerhouses: Think Tanks and Foreign Policy," American Foreign Policy Interests, 30 (March-April, 2008) 96-188.
•"The Political Sociology of a Concept: Corporatism and the Distinct Tradition," University of Georgia, Department of International Affairs, Occasional Papers, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2008) 1-14.
•"La Ley y el desarrollo polílico: Hacía un marco de análisis," Revista Jurídica (Columbia), Vol. XX (Fall, 2008).
•"Givin Polity an International Flavor," Polity (January, 2008) 1-4.
•"Religion, Security, and the Future of Latin America," Pew Forum on Religion and Security (Fall, 2006).
• "Where Does Europe End Now?  Expanding Europe's Frontiers and the Dilemmas of Enlargement and Identity" Brown Journal of International Affairs, XII (Summer/Fall 2005) 89-98; reprinted in Revista Valenciana dEstudis Autonòmics, No. 45/46 (tercer/quarto trimestre 2004) 13-27 [lead article].
•"Whatever Happened to Corporatism and Authoritarianism in Latin America?" in Corporatism and Authoritarianism in Latin America, Revisited (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2004), 1-28.
• "Science and the American Man: Modernization Theory in Cold War America," The Review of Politics, 67 (Winter, 2005) 711-713.
•"An Opportunity-Based Foreign Policy in Latin America."  CSIS, Election Watch 2004, I (November 2004) 5.
•"American Foreign Policy in Iraq: What Comparative Politics Can Teach Us About the Wisdom of Foreign Policy Decisions," for Northeastern University Occasional Papers Series (forthcoming).
• "The 2004 Dominican Republic Elections: Post-Election Report" (Washington, D.C.: CSIS, Western Hemisphere Election Study Series Vol. XXII, May 2004), with Esther M. Skelley, pp. 1-16.
•"Empire and Imperialism: The United States," Dictionary of the History of Ideas (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005), 663-4.
•"Anti-Communism," Dictionary of the History of Ideas (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005), with Esther M. Skelley.
•"Communism in Latin America," Dictionary of the History of Ideas (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005), with Esther M. Skelley.
•"Failed States and Nation-Building: How to Calculate the Chances for Success," Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 33 (Fall, 2004).  189-94.
•"Terrorism and Democracy in Latin America" in William Crotty (ed.), Political Terrorism and Democratic Development (Boston:  Northeastern University Press, 2004), with Susan L. Macek.  455-72
•"Governance and Ungovernability:  Looking Toward the Future of the Developing Nations", in Humanity 3000:  Symposium No. 1 Proceedings (Seattle:  Foundation for the Future, 2001).
•"The United States and Europe in Latin America", in Andrzej Dembicz and Mariusz Malinowski (eds.) Perceptions and Mutual Relations of Europe and the Americas (Warsaw:  University of Warsaw, Center for Latin American Studies, 2001) 48-9.
•"New Challenges in U.S. Foreign Policy", in Steven W. Hook (ed.) Comparative Foreign Policy:  Adaptation Strategies of the Great and Emerging Powers (Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 2002) 12-42, Coauthor Lana L. Wylie.
•"Venezuela:  Understanding Chávez", Hemisphere Focus, ix (September 2001).
•"Latin America" in Jürgen Rüland, Theodor Hanf, and Eva Manske, (eds.), Benign Neglect?  American Third World Policies in the Post-Cold War Era (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2005).
•"The Dominican Republic: From Nationalism to Globalism", coauthor with Anthony Spanakos, in Frank Mora and Jeanne Hey (eds.) Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Policy (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003) 104-119.