McNair Paper Number 54, About the Author, October 1996

Ivelaw L. Griffith is Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida International University. A specialist on Caribbean and Inter-American security, he is editor of Strategy and Security in the Caribbean (Praeger, 1991), author of The Quest for Security in the Caribbean (M. E. Sharpe, 1993, 1994), and coeditor of Democracy and Human Rights in the Caribbean (forthcoming from Westview Press).

His work has also has been published in several scholarly journals, including Caribbean Affairs, Conflict Quarterly, International Journal, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Latin American Research Review, and The Round Table. Professor Griffith is Book Review Editor of Hemisphere and is currently writing Sovereignty Under Siege, a book about the security implications of drugs, funded by the MacArthur Foundation and the North-South Center, University of Miami.