Current Research and Publications
Madagascar: le nouveau régime est-il légitime?
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Nadia R. Horning (Ph.D Cornell)
Click here to read English article in New African.
Mark Williams (Ph.D Harvard) is professor of political science at Middlebury College. His research interests include international politics, U.S.-Latin American Relations, Venezuelan Foreign Policy, Comparative Latin American Political Economy, and Mexican Politics. A past president of the New England Council on Latin American Studies, his research on Venezuela’s foreign policy will be published in Jonathan Eastwood and Thomas Ponniah, eds., The Revolution in Venezuela (Harvard University Press, forthcoming); his study of Mexico's transition from a statist-oriented to market-oriented development model will be published in Roderic A. Camp, ed., The Handbook of Mexican Politics (Cambridge, forthcoming).
He is the author of
Market Reforms in Mexico: Coalitions, Institutions, and the Politics of Policy Change (2001)
and
Understanding US-Latin American Relations: A Discourse between Theory and History (Routledge, August 2011).
His articles have been published in such journals as the Yale Journal of International Affairs, World Development, Political Science Quarterly, Latin American Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, and International Journal of Politics and Ethics.
Allison Stanger (Ph.D Harvard), Russell Leng '60 professor of international politics and economics and chair, department of political science.
Book TV: Allison Stanger - One Nation Under Contract
The author appeared at the Association of International Educators to discuss her book on outsourcing government functions to the private sector. The entire 55 minute program will appear on Book TV in the near future.
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Prof. Allison Stanger on privatization of American power
Allison Stanger, professor of political science at Middlebury College gives a brief overview of her research on U.S. government use of private contractors and its impact on foreign policy.
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Hearing June 18, 2010
Are Private Security Contractors Performing Inherently Governmental Functions?