Project directors
Dr.
Klaus Bodemer,
political scientist, is the Director of the Institute of Ibero-American Studies
in Hamburg since 1996. Between
1970-1984 and 1994-1996 he was researcher at the Universities of Mainz, Worms
and Kaiserslautern; between 1984 and 1986 he was visiting lecturer at FLACSO,
Buenos Aires and UERJ, Rio de Janeiro; between 1991 and 1994 he was Project
Manager at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Montevideo.
His research areas are: Latin America: comparative politics, science and
technology politics; planification, implementation and evaluation of
international cooperation politics; re-democratization and foreign policies in
the Southern Cone, state reform; communal and decentralization policies,
education policies, and social politics.
Eduardo
Gamarra
has
been affiliated with Florida International University since 1986, where he is
currently the director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center, a full
professor in the department of political science, and the editor of Hemisphere,
a magazine on Latin American and Caribbean affairs.
He is the author, co-author, and editor of several books including Revolution
and Reaction: Bolivia 1964-1985 (Transaction Publishers, 1988); three
volumes of the Latin America and Caribbean
Contemporary Record (Holmes and Meier Press); Latin
American Political Economy in the Age of Neoliberal Reform (Lyne Rienner
Publishers 1994); Democracy, Markets and
Structural Reform in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and
Mexico (Lyne Rienner Publishers, 1995); and Entre la Droga y la Democracia (Freiderich Ebert Foundation, 1994).
The author of over forty articles on Latin America, he has testified in
the US Congress on drug policy toward Latin America.
His current research focuses on the political economy of narcotics
trafficking in the Andean region and the Caribbean, democratization, and
civil-military relations.
He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of
Pittsburgh in 1987.