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Cynthia Arnson
Director
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Latin American Program
Phone: 202/691-4072
Email: cynthia.arnson@wilsoncenter.org
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Affiliation
Director
Expertise
Latin America, with particular emphasis on Colombia; democratic governance and the "New Left" in Latin America; human rights; conflict resolution; U.S. policy toward Latin America
Experience
Frequent writer and lecturer on Colombia and U.S. policy in Latin America; professor, American University; legislative assistant, U.S. House of Representatives; Associate Director, Human Rights Watch/Americas
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Major Publications
- Rethinking the Economics of War: The Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed, coeditor with I. William Zartman (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
- Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America, editor (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 1999)
- Crossroads: Congress, the President, and Central America, 1976-1993 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993)
Biography
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 the "New Left" and democratic governance in the hemisphere and on efforts to bring about negotiated settlements to internal armed conflicts in Latin America. She is editor of Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 1999), co-editor (with I. William Zartman) of Rethinking the Economics of War: The Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), and author of Crossroads: Congress, the President, and Central America, 1976-1993 (2nd ed., Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993). Since joining the Wilson Center's Latin American Program in 1994, she has written and edited dozens of Woodrow Wilson Center publications on the Andean region, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, and U.S. policy toward Latin America. She is co-editor of two books on Chiapas, Los desafíos de la paz (Miguel Ángel Porrúa, 2000), and Interpretaciones sobre la negociación y la paz (UNAM, 2003), and author of several book chapters on Colombia, for edited volumes published by the University of Notre Dame Press and the United States Institute of Peace Press, among others.
Arnson is a member of the editorial advisory board of Foreign Affairs en Español, the Spanish-language edition of the distinguished journal Foreign Affairs, and a member of the Latin America advisory board of the Open Society Institute. Arnson is also a member of the advisory board of Human Rights Watch/Americas, and served as associate director of the Americas division from 1990-94. In the early 1980s, as a consultant to Americas Watch, Arnson wrote many of the organization's first reports on human rights conditions in El Salvador.
Arnson served as an assistant professor of international relations at American University's School of International Service 1989-91. As a foreign policy aide in the House of Representatives during the Carter and Reagan administrations, she participated in the national debates over U.S. policy and human rights in Central and South America. Arnson graduated magna cum laude from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and has an M.A. and Ph.D. in international relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Education
Ph.D., International Relations, and M.A., Latin American Studies, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; B.A., Government, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Honors
American Fellow, American Association of University of Women Educational Foundation
| Record updated: 03/23/2009 |
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