International Development Experts
Dr. Cynthia J. Arnson is director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her most recent work has focused on questions of democratic governance, conflict resolution, international relations, and U.S. policy in the Western hemisphere. She is editor of In the Wake of War: Peace and Democratization in Latin America (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanf...
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, Northern Illinois University
My teaching and scholarship have focused primarily on American relations with South and Southeast Asia. My first book was about John Hay, secretary of state when the United States annexed the Philippines. While many American historians had explored the annexation, few had examined American colonial rule. Therefore I decided to research the attitudes and ideas of one important gro...
EducationM.A., Comparative European and International Law (LLM), European University Institute, Florence, Italy; B.A., Political Science, University of Chicago SubjectsBalkan Region,Constitutionalism,Democratization,East Europe,European Union,Human Rights,International Law ExperienceManaging editor, East European Constitutional Review, University of Chicago Law School and the Constitutio...
Assistant Professor of International Studies, University of Miami
Dr. Gomez Mera holds a D.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University and an M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics. In 2004-2005, she was Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University. She has also taught at Metropolitan College of New York and at New York University and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank...
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; Adviser to the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Project, Hoover Archives; Board of Directors of the Freedom Broadcasting Foundation (Washington) and the Institute of Transnational Studies (Munich); Senior Advisor, RFE/RL
A. Ross Johnson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, adviser to the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Archive Project at Hoover, senior adviser to the president of RFE/RL, and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.Johnson was a senior executive of RFE/RL from 1988 to 2002, serving as director of Radio Free Europe, director of the RFE/R...
Former Senior Research Associate and Director, Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland and the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Former Senior Vice President, American Electronics Association
William Krist is currently a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. For the past three years he has been working on a book on U.S. trade policy including its impact on economic development, the environment, U.S. foreign policy, and employment here in the United States. It is expected that a draft of the book will be completed in early 2012.In addition to his...
Michael Kugelman is program associate for South and Southeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he is responsible for research, programming, and publications on South and Southeast Asia. His most recent work has focused on U.S. aid effectiveness in Pakistan, Pakistan-India trade, and security challenges in India. Since 2009, much of his scholarship has emphasized natural resource issues in...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
A study of policy processes and the growth of important international relationships between the US and Ukraine, the development of new means to obtain a viable strategic partnership that takes account of international policy mechanisms that were created in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere in the post-Cold War era.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University
I am Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. I received my Ph.D. fromthe University of Michigan in 2003. My research centers on questions at the intersection of comparative and international political economy. My specific interests revolve around the role of domestic political institutions in fostering pro-growth policy environments, and in mediating the influence of...
