Full Name
Dr. Cynthia Arnson
Job Title
Adjunct Lecturer
Company
Johns Hopkins University
Speaker Bio
Dr. Cynthia Arnson is an adjunct professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She previously served as director of the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and as a Wilson Center distinguished fellow. She is a widely recognized expert on Latin American politics and international relations and has testified on multiple occasions before committees of the U.S. Congress.
Arnson is a member of the editorial advisory board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica , the Spanish language edition of the distinguished journal Foreign Affairs. She is also a member of the advisory board of Human Rights Watch/Americas, where she served as associate director from 1990-- 1994, covering Colombia and Central America.
She is the editor of multiple highly regarded books published by major university presses. These include Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America (Stanford University Press, 1999, now in its third printing); In the Wake of War: Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America (Stanford, 2012); (with I. William Zartman) Rethinking the Economics of War: The Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed (Johns Hopkins University, 2005); and (with Carlos de la Torre) Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century (Johns Hopkins, 2013). She is the author of Crossroads: Congress, the President, and Central America, 1976-1993 (Penn State, 2d edition, 1993) and her articles have been published by Foreign Affairs, Americas Quarterly, Latin Trade, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Arnson served as an assistant professor of international relations at American University's School of International Service from 1989 to1991. 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. in Latin American Studies and International Economics and a Ph.D. in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Arnson is a member of the editorial advisory board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica , the Spanish language edition of the distinguished journal Foreign Affairs. She is also a member of the advisory board of Human Rights Watch/Americas, where she served as associate director from 1990-- 1994, covering Colombia and Central America.
She is the editor of multiple highly regarded books published by major university presses. These include Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America (Stanford University Press, 1999, now in its third printing); In the Wake of War: Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America (Stanford, 2012); (with I. William Zartman) Rethinking the Economics of War: The Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed (Johns Hopkins University, 2005); and (with Carlos de la Torre) Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century (Johns Hopkins, 2013). She is the author of Crossroads: Congress, the President, and Central America, 1976-1993 (Penn State, 2d edition, 1993) and her articles have been published by Foreign Affairs, Americas Quarterly, Latin Trade, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Arnson served as an assistant professor of international relations at American University's School of International Service from 1989 to1991. 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. in Latin American Studies and International Economics and a Ph.D. in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
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