Laurence Whitehead

This year Laurence Whitehead completed his
stint as editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies and took up a
new responsibility as first Chairman of the Area and Development Studies
Committee within the Social Science Division. Building on earlier research on
citizen security he organized two conferences on this subject, one in El Salvador, and one in Oxford. He also contributed to related work
on Colombia.
However his main research interest is now shifting to Mexico, and at
the end of the year he was appointed the first Director of a new Centre for
Mexican Studies (to be inaugurated by President Fox in November). In June he
served for a month as Alfonso Reyes Visiting Professor of Mexican Studies at
the Institut des Haut Études d’Amerique Latine/Paris III. Most of
his publications this year related to the comparative politics of
democratization viewed more broadly (including the launch in Budapest of a book in Hungarian that
incorporates his work on East European topics). The main highlight was the
publication of his Democratization: Theory and Experience. He also
contributed to comparative research projects organised by the UNDP, UNRISD, and
the United Nations University, and to a study on the EU as ‘democracy
promoter’ in the Maghreb (including a first visit to Morocco). Other
publications concern the ‘transatlantic triangle’, especially the
shifting relations between Europe, North America and Latin
America in the wake of September 11th.

Publications

Democratization: Theory and Experience (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002)

Laurence Whitehead Demokratizálodás: elmélet
és tapasztalat. Budapest,
XXI Század Intézet, 2001 (Translated into Hungarian by Gathy
Vera).

(editor) Emerging
Market Democracies: East Asia and Latin America.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2002.

(editor with Lourdes Sola, andEduardo
Kugelmas) Banco Central: Autoridade Politica e Democratizaçao –
Um Equilibrio Delicado (Sao Paulo:
Fundação Getulio Vargas, 2002.

‘Reforms: Mexico
and Columbia’ in Manuel Antonio
Garretón and Edward Newman (eds.), Democracy in Latin
America: (Re) Constructing Political Society. Tokyo: United Nations University
Press, 2002.

‘Hacia una
reconfiguración del Triangulo Atlántico después de la
Guerra Fría’, in Klaus Bodemer, Wolf Grabendorff, Winfried Jung
and Josef Thesing (eds.), El Triangulo Atlantico: América Latina,
Europa y los Estados Unidos en el Sistema Internacional Cambiante (Berlin:
ADLAF, Adenauer Foundation, 2002.

‘El Reto de la Democracia en
América Latina’, Revista de Occidente, 246, 2001.

‘Europe/Amériques
latines: la longue durée’, in Daniel Van Eeuwen (ed.), L’Amérique
Latine et l’Europe à l’heure de la Mondialisation. Paris: Karthala, 2002.

‘Of Bubbles and
Buildings: Financial Architecture in a Liberal Democratic Era’, in Leslie
Elliott Armijo (ed.), Debating the Global Financial Architecture, Albany, NY:
SUNY Press, 2002.

(with Richard Gillespie) ‘European
Democracy Promotion in North Africa: Limits
and Prospects’, Democratization 9, 2002.

‘Review of “Arguing Comparative Politics”’, Journal
of Democracy, 13, 2002.