Howard J. Wiarda

Howard J. Wiarda is Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and founding head of the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He is also a senior associate at CSIS and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. Over the past 25 years, he has divided his time among the academic, policy, and think tank worlds. He has been visiting scholar/research associate at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University; resident scholar and founding director of the Center for Hemispheric Studies at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; visiting professor at MIT, Georgetown, and George Washington Universities; course chairman at the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State; lead consultant to the National Bipartisan (Kissinger) Commission on Central America; Thorton D. Hooper Fellow in International Security Affairs at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; and professor of national security affairs at the National Defense University.

A prolific author, Dr. Wiarda has written or edited over 70 books and is the author of over 300 scholarly articles, book chapters, op-eds, and congressional testimonies. Some of his best-known books include American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins, 1996), Development on the Periphery (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), Introduction to Comparative Politics, 2nd ed. (Harcourt, 2000), European Politics in the Age of Globalization (Harcourt, 2001), Latin American Politics and Development, 6th ed. (Westview, 2006), Civil Society (Westview, 2003), Political Development in Emerging Nations (Wadsworth, 2004), Policy Passages (Praeger, 2002), Comparative Democracy and Democratization (Harcourt, 2002), and Corporatism and Comparative Politics (M.E. Sharpe, 1997). He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Florida, and an M.S. degree from the National Defense University. He has been a post-graduate scholar at Harvard and Ohio State Universities, and he holds an honorary doctorate from Nizhny Novgorod State University in Russia.