peter h. smith

PETER H. SMITH
Curriculum Vitae
November 2011
Present Positions:
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Simón Bolívar
Professor of Latin American Studies, and Adjunct Professor of
History, University of California, San Diego
Office Address:
Department of Political Science
University of California, San Diego (0521)
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0521
Office Telephone:
E-Mail Address:
(858)534-6043
[email protected]
Professional Fields:
Political Change in Latin America; Inter-American Relations;
Policy Analysis; Comparative Politics and International Relations
EDUCATION
Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1961
Columbia University, New York, Ph.D., 1966
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth College, 1966-68
Assistant Professor to Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, 1968-80
Professor of History/Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980-86
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Simón Bolívar Professor of
Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1987-present
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MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, 1976-79:
General management of 65-member academic department, with responsibility for
undergraduate and graduate curricula; recruitment, retention, promotion of faculty;
scholarships and fellowships; supervision of non-academic staff.
Associate Dean for Social Sciences, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, 1978-80:
Supervision of graduate offerings in the social sciences, including new degree
programs; assistance in faculty recruitment; development of minority and affirmative
action programs; allocation of university-wide awards for faculty research.
Head, Department of Humanities, 1980-82, and Associate Dean for Humanities
Programs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980-83:
Management of six-unit, 120-member cluster of humanities programs, including
curriculum coordination and design; recruitment, retention, and promotion of faculty;
articulation of the role of humanities in a scientific and technological environment.
President, Latin American Studies Association, 1981:
An elective position involving leadership of a 2,500-member association, including:
arrangements for international congresses, management of finances, design of
governance procedures, supervision of scholarly journal, contact with appropriate
government authorities, representation of professional community.
Director, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, 1989-2001, and Director of
Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1994-2001:
Overall supervision of UCSD teaching, research, and outreach on Latin America,
including administration of National Resource Center; preparation of external grant
proposals (approximately $3 million received); development of graduate and
undergraduate curricula; promotion of public and community relations.
Study Center Director, Education Abroad Program of the University of California,
Granada, Spain, 2005-2007:
Supervision of study-abroad and student exchange programs between the University
of California and the University of Granada, the University of Córdoba, and the
University of Cádiz; negotiation of agreements with host institutions; responsibility
for student advising, course curricula, conversion of Spanish grades to UC system.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Politics and Beef in Argentina: Patterns of Conflict and Change (New York and London:
Columbia University Press, 1969); Spanish translation under title Carne y política en la
Argentina (Buenos Aires: Editorial Paidós, 1969; second edition published by
Hyspamérica, 1986)).
Argentina and the Failure of Democracy: Conflict among Political Elites, 1904-1955
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974).
Labyrinths of Power: Political Recruitment in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1979); Spanish translation under title Laberintos del poder: el
reclutamiento de las élites políticas en México (México: El Colegio de México, 1981;
second edition, 1982).
Modern Latin America, coauthored with Thomas E. Skidmore (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1984; revised editions 1989, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2005) and seventh
edition with James N. Green (2010); translated into Korean and Chinese, with Spanish
translation under title Historia contemporánea de América Latina: América Latina en el
siglo XX (Barcelona: Crítica, 1996).
The Challenge of Interdependence: Mexico and the United States (Lanham, MD:
University Press of America, 1988), with Spanish edition under title El desafío de la
interdependencia: México y Estados Unidos (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica,
1988) [principal staff author].
Talons of the Eagle: Latin America, the United States, and the World (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1996; second revised edition, 2000; third revised edition, 2008),
with Spanish edition under title Estados Unidos y América Latina: hegemonía y
resistencia (Valencia: Universitat de Valencia, 2010).
Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2005; second revised edition, 2011).
Edited Volumes:
New Approaches to Latin American History, coedited with Richard Graham (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1974).
Statistics, Epistemology, and History, special issues of journal Historical Methods
(Summer and Fall 1984).
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Mexico's Alternative Political Futures, coedited with Wayne A. Cornelius and Judith
Gentleman (La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San
Diego, 1989).
Dimensions of U.S.-Mexican Relations, five-volume series coedited with Rosario Green
(La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1989);
Spanish edition under title Retos de las relaciones entre México y Estados Unidos
(México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1989).
Drug Policy in the Americas (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992); Spanish translation under
title El combate a las drogas en América (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1993;
second edition, 1997).
The Challenge of Integration: Europe and the Americas (Miami: North-South
Center/Transaction Books, 1993).
Latin America in Comparative Perspective: New Approaches to Methods and Analysis
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1995).
Cooperation or Rivalry? Regional Integration in the Americas and the Pacific Rim,
coedited with Shoji Nishijima (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996); volume also published
in Japanese (1995) and Spanish (1997).
NAFTA in the New Millennium, coedited with Edward J. Chambers (Edmonton and La
Jolla: University of Alberta Press and Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of
California, San Diego, 2002).
East Asia and Latin America: The Unlikely Alliance, coedited with Kotaro Horisaka and
Shoji Nishijima (Boulder and Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
Promises of Empowerment: Women in Asia and Latin America, coedited with Jennifer L.
Troutner and Christine Hünefeldt (Boulder and Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).
Mexico and the United States: Possibilities for Partnership, coedited with Andrew Selee
(under review at Lynne Rienner Publishers).
Book Chapters:
“Academia and Politics: The Roles of U.S. Universities,” in David S. Smith, ed.,
Prospects for Latin America (New York: International Fellows Program Policy Series,
Columbia University, 1970), pp. 35-87; Spanish translation under title “El papel de las
universidades norteamericanas in Latinoamérica,” Anglia 4 (1971): 93-132.
“History,” in Robert S. Byars and Joseph L. Love, eds., Quantitative Social Science
Research on Latin America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973), pp. 14-61.
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“Political Legitimacy in Spanish America,” in New Approaches to Latin American
History, coedited with Richard Graham (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974), pp.
225-255; republished in John J. Johnson, Peter J. Bakewell, and Meredith D. Dodge, eds.,
Readings in Latin American History, Volume II: The Modern Experience (Durham: Duke
University Press, 1985), pp. 153-175, and excerpted in Hugh M. Hamill, ed., Caudillos:
Dictators in Spanish America (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), pp. 87-96.
“The Making of the Mexican Constitution,” in William O. Aydelotte, ed., The
Dimensions of Parliamentary History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977), pp.
186-224.
“Does Mexico Have a Power Elite?” in José Luis Reyna and Richard S. Weinert, eds.,
Authoritarianism in Mexico (Philadelphia: ISHI, 1977), pp. 129-151.
“The Breakdown of Democracy in Argentina, 1916-1930,” in Juan J. Linz and Alfred
Stepan, eds., The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Latin America (Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978), pp. 3-27; also in single comprehensive volume
entitled The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes.
“Mexico: The Continuing Quest for a U.S. Policy,” in Richard Newfarmer, ed., From
Gunboats to Diplomacy: New Policies for Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1984), pp. 37-53.
“Peronism and Economic Development: The 1973 Elections,” coauthored with Manuel
Mora y Araujo, in Frederick C. Turner and José Miguens, eds., Juan Perón and the
Reshaping of Argentina (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983), pp. 171-188;
earlier version published in Manuel Mora y Araujo and Ignacio Llorente, eds., El voto
peronista (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sur, 1980), pp. 441-472.
“Leadership and Change: Intellectuals and Technocrats in Mexico,” in Roderic A. Camp,
ed., Mexico's Stability: The Next Five Years (Boulder: Westview, 1986), pp. 101-117.
“‘Revolución’ de la revolución en Latinoamérica (siglo XX),” in V. Vázquez de Prada
and Ignacio Olabarri, eds., Balance de la historiografía sobre Iberoamérica (1945-1988):
Actas de las IV conversaciones internacionales de historia (Pamplona: Universidad de
Navarra, 1989), pp. 675-709.
“The Presidential Succession in Historical Perspective,” in Wayne A. Cornelius, Judith
Gentleman, and Peter H. Smith, eds., Mexico’s Alternative Political Futures (La Jolla:
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1989), pp. 391416.
“Mexico since 1946: Dynamics of an Authoritarian Regime,” in Leslie Bethell, ed.,
Cambridge History of Latin America, volume VII (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990), pp. 83-157; republished in Bethell, ed., Mexico since
Independence (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 321396; Spanish translation under title “México, 1946-c. 1990,” in Bethell, ed., Historia de
América Latina, volume 13 (Barcelona: Crítica, 1998), pp. 84-147.
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“The Political Economy of Drugs: Conceptual Issues and Policy Options,” in Peter H.
Smith, ed., Drug Policy in the Americas (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 1-21.
“On Democracy and Democratization,” in Howard Wiarda, ed., Political and Social
Change in Latin America (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 295-313.
“The State and Development in Historical Perspective,” in Alfred Stepan, ed., Americas:
Interpretive Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 30-56.
“The State of Revolution,” coauthored with Margaret Crahan, in Alfred Stepan, ed.,
Americas: Interpretive Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 79-108.
“The Politics of Integration: Concepts and Themes,” “Decision Rules and Governance,”
and “The Politics of Integration: Guidelines for Policy,” in Peter H. Smith, ed., The
Challenge of Integration: Europe and the Americas (Miami: North-South
Center/Transaction Books, 1993), pp. 1-14, 361-390, and 391-412.
“Japón, América Latina y el nuevo orden internacional,” in Soledad Loaza, ed., La
cooperación internacional en un mundo desigual (Mexico: El Colegio de México, 1994),
pp. 159-190.
“The Changing Agenda for Social Science Research on Latin America,” in Peter H.
Smith, ed., Latin America in Comparative Perspective: New Approaches to Methods and
Analysis (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995), pp. 1-29.
“The United States, Regional Integration, and the Reshaping of the International Order,”
in Shoji Nishjima and Peter H. Smith, eds., Cooperation or Rivalry? Regional
Integration in the Americas and the Pacific Rim (Boulder: Westview press, 1996), pp. 2751.
“NAFTA and Mexican Migration,” in Frank D. Bean, Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Bryan R.
Roberts, and Sidney Weintraub, eds., At the Crossroads: Mexico and U.S. Immigration
Policy (Boulder and New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), pp. 263-281.
“Drug Trafficking in Mexico,” in Barry P. Bosworth, Susan M. Collins, and Nora Lustig,
eds., Coming Together? Mexico-U.S. Relations (Washington: The Brookings Institution,
1997), pp. 125-147.
“Estados Unidos y su relación con América Latina frente al mundo de la pos-Guerra
Fría,” in Estrategias económicas para el nuevo milenio: Globalización con justicia social
(México: Fundación Colosio, 1997), pp. 341-350.
“The Rise and Fall of the Developmental State in Latin America,” in Menno Vellinga,
ed., The Changing Role of the State in Latin America (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998),
pp. 51-73; Spanish translation under title “Ascenso y caída del estado desarrollista en
América Latina,” in Vellinga, ed., El cambio del papel del estado en América Latina
(México: Siglo XXI, 1997), pp. 31-53.
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“Political Dimensions of the Peso Crisis,” in Sebastian Edwards and Moisés Naím, eds.,
Mexico 1994: Anatomy of an Emerging-Market Crash (Washington: Carnegie
Endowment/The Brookings Institution, 1997), pp. 31-53.
“Mexico,” in Robert Chase, Emily Hill, and Paul Kennedy, eds., The Pivotal States: A
New Framework for U.S. Policy in the Developing World (New York: W.W. Norton,
1999), pp. 215-243.
“Trouble Ahead? Prospects for U.S. Relations with Latin America,” in Albert Fishlow
and James Jones, eds., The United States and the Americas: A Twenty-First Century View
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), pp. 174-196.
“Semi-Organized International Crime: Drug Trafficking in Mexico,” in Tom Farer, ed.,
Transnational Crime in the Americas (New York: Routledge, 1999), pp. 193-216.
“Strategic Options for Latin America,” in Joseph S. Tulchin and Ralph Espach, eds.,
Latin America in the New International System (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2001), pp. 3572.
“From NAFTA to FTAA? Paths toward Hemispheric Integration,” in Edward J.
Chambers and Peter H. Smith, eds., NAFTA in the New Millennium (Edmonton and La
Jolla: University of Alberta Press and Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of
California, San Diego, 2002), pp. 471-496.
“The Mexican Peso Crisis” and “The United States: Building a New World Order?” in
Peter H. Smith, Kotaro Horisaka, and Shoji Nishiima, eds., East Asia and Latin America:
The Unlikely Alliance (Boulder and Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), pp. 187-208
and 332-363.
“Empowering Women: Agency, Structure, and Comparative Perspective,” coauthored
with Jennifer L. Troutner, in Peter H. Smith, Jennifer L. Troutner, and Christine
Hünefeldt, eds., Promises of Empowerment: Women in Asia and Latin America (Boulder
and Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), pp. 1-30.
“Cuidado con lo que deseas: Perspectivas de la política estadounidense hacia América
Latina,” in Rafael Fernández de Castro and Érika Ruiz Sandoval, eds., México en el
Mundo: La agenda internacional de México, 2006-2012 (Mexico: Editorial Planeta,
2006), pp. 23-32.
“Perspectivas de la izquierda latinoamericana,” in Pedro Pérez Herrero, ed., La
“izquierda” en América Latina (Madrid: Editorial Pablo Iglesias, 2006), pp. 291-305.
“Democracy in Latin America: Survival or Consolidation?” in Ryszard Stemplowski, ed.,
Europe and Latin America—Looking at Each Other? (Warsaw: PISM, 2010), pp. 331356.
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“Mexican Democracy in Comparative Perspective,” in Roderic Ai Camp, ed., Handbook
of Mexican Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
“U.S.-Latin American Relations: Power, Politics, and Cooperation,” in Peter Kingstone
and Deborah Yashar, eds., Handbook of Latin American Politics (New York: Routledge,
forthcoming)
“Global Scenarios and U.S.-Mexican Relations,” in Peter H. Smith and Andrew Selee,
eds., Mexico and the United States: Possibilities for Partnership (under review at Lynne
Rienner Publishers)
Scholarly Articles:
“Politics and Sainthood: Biography by Cotton Mather,” William and Mary Quarterly 20,
2 (April 1963): 186-206.
“The Latin American Press and the Space Race,” Journal of Interamerican Studies 6, 4
(October 1964): 549-572.
“The Image of a Dictator: Gabriel García Moreno,” Hispanic American Historical Review
45, 4 (February 1965): 1-24, republished in Lewis Hanke, ed., Readings in Latin
American History, Vol. II (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1966), pp. 180-198.
“Los radicales argentinos y la defensa de los intereses ganaderos, 1916-1930,” Desarrollo
Económico 7, 25 (abril-junio 1967): 795-829; republished in Marcos Giménez Zapiola,
ed., El régimen oligárquico (Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 1975), pp. 282-311.
“Social Mobilization, Political Participation, and the Rise of Juan Perón,” Political
Science Quarterly 84, 1 (March 1969): 30-49.
“Notes on Quantitative History: Federal Expenditure and Social Change in Mexico since
1910,” coauthored with Thomas E. Skidmore, Latin American Research Review 7, 1
(Spring 1970): 71-85.
“The Social Base of Peronism,” Hispanic American Historical Review 52, 1 (February
1972): 55-73; Spanish translation published in Manuel Mora y Araujo and Ignacio
Llorente, eds., El voto peronista (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sur, 1980), pp. 57-86.
“Inferencia ecológica y las elecciones argentinas de 1946,” Desarrollo Económico 14, 54
(julio-septiembre 1974): 385-398; republished in Manuel Mora y Araujo and Ignacio
Llorente, eds., El voto peronista (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sur, 1980), pp. 165-189.
“La movilidad política en el México contemporáneo,” Foro Internacional 15, 3 (eneromarzo 1975): 379-413; republished in Lorenzo Meyer, ed., Lecturas de política mexicana
(México: El Colegio de México, 1978), pp. 115-159.
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“The Mexican Revolution and the Transformation of Political Elites,” Boletín de Estudios
Latinoamericanos y del Caribe 25 (diciembre 1978): 3-20.
“The Wounds of History [Mexico],” The Wilson Quarterly 3, 3 (Summer 1978): 3-20.
“Political History in the 1980s: A View from Latin America,” Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 12, 1 (Summer 1981): 3-27; republished in Theodore K. Rabb
and Robert I. Rotberg, eds., The New History, the 1980s and Beyond: Studies in
Interdisciplinary History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982), pp. 3-27.
“Famine, Crime, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France: Explorations in Time-Series
Analysis,” coauthored with Frances Gouda, Historical Methods 16, 2 (Spring 1983): 5973.
“Time as a Historical Construct,” Historical Methods 17, 4 (Fall 1984): 182-191.
“U.S.-Mexican Relations: The 1980s and Beyond,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and
World Affairs 27, 1 (February 1985): 91-101.
“Sobre la democracia y la democratización en América Latina: especulaciones y
perspectivas,” Foro Internacional 29, 1 (julio-septiembre, 1988): 5-29.
“Drug Wars in Latin America,” Revista Iberoamericana [Sophia University, Tokyo] 12, 1
(Summer 1990): 1-16.
“Crisis and Democracy in Latin America,” World Politics, 43, 4 (July 1991): 608-634;
Spanish translation under title “Crisis y democracia en América Latina,” Desarrollo
Económico 31, 124 (enero-marzo 1992): 464-486.
“The Political Impact of Free Trade on Mexico,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and
World Affairs 34, 1 (Spring 1992): 1-25, with Spanish translation under title “El impacto
político del libre comercio en México,” in Gustavo Vegas Canovas, ed., Liberación
económica y libre comercio en América del Norte: consideraciones políticas, sociales y
culturales (México: El Colegio de México, 1993); also republished in Roderic Ai Camp,
ed., Democracy in Latin America: Patterns and Cycles (Wilmington DE: Scholarly
Resources, 1996), pp. 249-168.
“Los ciclos de democracia electoral en América Latina, 1900-2000,” Política y Gobierno
11, 2 (2004): 189-228.
“El surgimiento de la democracia iliberal en América Latina,” Tribuna americana 4 (2º
semestre 2004): 95-114.
“Are We Losing Latin America? An Analysis of US and EU Policy,” Transatlantic
Thinker Series (Brussels: Bertelsmann Foundation, 2007), 19 pp.
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“Governmental Performance and Political Regimes: Latin America in Comparative
Perspective, 1900-2004,” coauthored with Melissa R. Ziegler, Taiwan Journal of
Democracy 3, 2 (December 2007): 101-117.
“Liberal and Illiberal Democracy in Latin America,” coauthored with Melissa R. Ziegler,
Latin American Politics and Society 50, 1 (Spring 2008): 31-57, also published in
William C. Smith, ed., Latin American Democratic Transformations: Institutions, Actors,
and Processes (Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 13-33, with Portuguese
translation under title “Democracias liberal e illiberal na América Latina,” Opinião
Publica 15, no. 2 (novembro de 2009): 356-385.
“Transitions, Interrupted: Routes toward Democracy in Latin America,” coauthored with
Matthew C. Kearney, Taiwan Journal of Democracy 6, 1 (July 2010): 137-163.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Fellowships and Research Grants (Selected):
Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies,
1967, 1969-70
American Philosophical Society, 1969, 1974
The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1972-73
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1972-73
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1975-76
H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1975-80
Fulbright Fellowship, 1984
U.S.-Japan Leadership Fellow, Japan Society of New York, 1989-90
Center for Global Partnership, 1993-95 and 1998-2001
UCSD Faculty Senate Research Grants, 2001 and 2005
Teaching Awards:
William Henry Kiekhofer Memorial Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin,
1968-69
Graduate Student Council Teaching Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1985-86
Professor of the Year Award, Sigma Chi Fraternity, University of California, San
Diego, 2000-01