Laurence Whitehead (Official Fellow) was on leave this year. With the disappearance of
the General Board he relinquished almost all his university responsibilities
and he also came to the end of his term of office as College property bursar.
Apart from some continuing doctoral supervision and occasional lectures, he was
free to concentrate on his own studies. The major focus of his work was the
completion of a book manuscript on Democratization: Theory and Experience,
and most of his other activities were directly or indirectly linked to that
undertaking.

One
chapter of his book deals with ‘citizen security’, and includes a
case study of El Salvador,
which he visited twice during the year. These visits were in connection with a
government-financial collaborative research project under his direction. The
initial plan was to hold a conference in St Antony’s at the end of
January 2001, to review the work of the various contributors. Unfortunately a
week before the conference was due El Salvador was struck by a severe
earthquake which made it necessary to revise and reschedule the project. A
modified and updated version of the conference will now be held in Mexico City at the end of
September.

Another
theme of his book concerns the distinctive historical foundations of
democratisation in various contexts. He spent much of March in Bolivia, where
the book Towards Democratic Viability: the Bolivian Experience was
launched and presented to a variety of audiences. Another chapter concerns the
relationship between democracy and monetary authority. Originally delivered as
a paper at a panel he organised at IPSA (Quebec City) this has now expanded
into a collaborative volume due to be published in Brazil (in Portuguese) this
autumn. In a similar vein he presented a paper on the distinctiveness of the
post-communist democratisations at a conference organised by the Millennium
Foundation in Budapest.
The Foundation is currently translating a selection of his writings on this
theme for publication as a volume in Hungarian. In association with the
European Union, the Polis Institute for International Affairs and the Center
for Democracy in Washington,
he is also co-organizing annual conferences on the
transatlantic relationship, with particular emphasis on the eastern enlargement
of the EU and NATO. Aspects of this work were also presented at the Adenauer
Foundation in Berlin, at CREALC in Aix-en-Provence, and at the Menéndez
Pelayo University
in Santander.
He also presented a paper at a conference in the Carter
Center in Atlanta based on his chapter concerning
institutional design and accountability in new democracies. Other ongoing
collaborations involve the National Endowment for Democracy, the UNU, and the
Pacific Council for International Policy, also mainly concerned with aspects of
democratisation.

This
is his final year as editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies. He
plans to remain actively involved with the Oxford Studies in Democratization
book series, but once his current commitments are completed, he expects to
devote most of his future research time to work on Mexico.

Publications

(editor
and author of two additional chapters) The International Dimensions of
Democratization (enlarged paperback edition). Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2001.

(editor with John Crabtree) Towards
Democratic Viability: The Bolivian Experience. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

‘East Asia and Latin America:
Stirrings of Mutual Recognition?’ Journal of
Democracy, 11, 2000.

‘Bolivia and the
Viability of Democracy’, Journal of Democracy, 12, 2001.

(with
George Gray-Molina) ‘Acpacidad Política a la Larga, Revista
Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 64, [2000?]

Closing Commentary on Prospects for the EU-US
Relationship. Warsaw: Polish Institute of International
Affairs Conferences, 2001.

‘Los
cambiantes fundamentos del liberalismo económico en la política
pública de América Latina’, Foreign Affairs en
Español, Otoño- Invierno 2001, Vol. 1 No.3.

‘La consolidation de la
démocratie: nouveaux questionnements’, Revue Internationale de
Politique Comparée, 8, 2001.

‘Reflections on the “Transatlantic
Partnership”, after Nice and Tallahassee’,
in R. Stemplowski (ed.), Prospects for EU-US Relationship.  Warsaw: The Polish Institute of International
Affairs, 2001.