March, 2017
VITA
DAVID PIONBERLIN
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1984.
M.A. Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1981.
B.A. Colgate University, 1974.
ACADEMIC FIELDS OF INTEREST
Comparative Politics: Latin American Politics, CivilMilitary Relations, Security and Defense, Political Violence, Human Rights.
International Relations: Regional Security, International Influences on Latin America.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California at Riverside, 1997-Present.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California at Riverside, 1991-96.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, 198591.
Research Associate, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1984.
Instructor, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Denver, 1983.
Research Assistant, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C., 1975.
Instructor, Peace Studies Program, Colgate University, 19741975.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Comparative Politics of the Developing World
Modern Dictatorships
Comparative Politics of Latin America
The Armed Forces and Politics
Human Rights: Concepts and Cases
U.S. – Latin American Relations
Political Violence in Latin America
Graduate Courses
Comparative Politics Core Seminar
The Armed Forces and Politics
Latin American Politics
Qualitative Methods
AWARDS and GRANTS
UCR Dissertation Mentor Award, 2016.
COR Grant, Academic Senate, University of California, Riverside, 2014-2016, $4,500.
Barcelona Knowledge Campus, Lecture and Research Fellowship, November 2013, University of Barcelona, Spain, $4,000
Ford Foundation Grant, “Democratic Governance, Civilian Uprisings, and the Military: Promoting a More Civil Engagement in South America,” 2007, $7,500.
Recipient, University of California, Riverside, Academic Senate Research Funds, each year from 1991-present.
Best Paper Award, Conference, Research and Education in Defense and Security Studies, October 27-30, 2003, Santiago, Chile. “A New Civil-Military Pragmatism in Latin America,” selected among some 280 entries.
Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, Research Grant, 2000-2001, $15,000
Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, Research Conference Grant, 1998-99, $15,000
Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside, 1998-99, $5,500.
Fulbright, American Republics Research Program Award, 1994-95.
American Philosophical Society Research Award, 1993-1994, $5,000.
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, ResearchGrant, 1993-1994, $3,546.
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Speaker Series Grant, 1993-1994, $4,800.
Tinker Foundation, Field Research Grant, l98687,$2,000.
Ohio State University Seed Grant, 1986, $10,000.
American Political Science Association, Gabriel A. Almond Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Comparative Politics, 1985.
Western Political Science Association Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Region, 198485.
Institute for the Study of World Politics, PostDoctoral Fellowship, 1984, $5,000.
National Science Foundation, Dissertation Research Grant, 19831984, $5,466.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Editorial Board: Comparative Political Studies, 19852014; Latin American Politics and Society, 2002-2016; Armed Forces & Society 2009-present; Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review, 2009- present; Security and Defense Studies Review , 2006-2011.
International Editorial Board: Seguridad Estratégica Regional, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Red se Seguridad y Defensa de America Latina (RESDAL) newsletter.
Article Manuscript Reviewer: American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Armed Forces & Society, Security Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs (now Latin American Politics & Society)
Book Manuscript Reviewer: University of Chicago Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Penn State University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Stanford University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Texas Press, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Scholarly Resources, Palgrave MacMillan, Ashgate Publishers, Pearson Publishers.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Soldiers, Politicians, and Civilians: Reforming Civil-Military Relations
in Democratic Latin America (co-authored with Rafael Martínez). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017 forthcoming.
Military Missions in Democratic Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2016.
Organización de la defensa y control civil de las Fuerzas Armadas en América Latina. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Jorge Baudino, 2013 (co-edited with José Manuel Ugarte)
Broken Promises? The Argentine Crisis and Argentine Democracy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008 (co-authored with Edward C. Epstein).
Transforming Latin America: the International and Domestic Origins of Change. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005 (co-authored with Craig Arceneaux).
Favorable reviews in Development and Change, 37, 3 (May, 2006):663-665; Perspectives on Political Science, September, 2005:230; Comparative Political Studies, 39, 2006: 670-673; Journal of Latin American Studies, 38,3 (2006):664-666
Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: New Analytical Perspectives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Favorable reviews found in American Political Science Review 96,4 (December 2002)861-862; Journal of Military History (July 2002); The Americas 59,2 (October 2002): 246-247.
Through Corridors of Power: Institutions and Civil-Military Relations in Argentina. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1997.
Favorable reviews found in the Latin American Research Review 34, 2 (1999): 198-213; Journal of Developing Areas 32, 4 (Summer 1998): 568-69; American Political Science Review 92,4 (1999):965-66; Political Studies 47 (September, 1999):788; South Eastern Latin Americanist (Summer 2000):95-96.
Democracia y Cuestión Militar. Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 1996 (co-authored with Ernesto López).
The Ideology of State Terror: Economic Doctrine and Political Repression in Argentina and Peru. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989.
Journal Articles
“A Tale of Two Missions: Military Police Patrols vs. High Value Targeted Operations,” Armed Forces & Society 43,1 (2017):53-71.
“Staying Quartered: Civilian Uprisings and Military Disobedience in the Twenty First Century,” co-authored with Diego Esparza and Kevin Grisham, Comparative Political Studies 47, 2 (February 2014): 230-259.
“Cumprimento de misões militar na América Latina” (Military Mission Compliance in Latin America) in a special issue of Vária História 28, 48 (2013): 627-643.
“The Study of Civil-Military Relations in New Democracies,” Asian Journal of Political Science 19, 3 (December 2011): 222-232.
“Turkish Civil-Military Relations: A Latin American Comparison,” Turkish Studies 12,2 (June 2011): 293-304
Latin America’s Growing Security Gap,” co-authored with Harold Trinkunas, Journal of Democracy 22,1 (January, 2011): 39-53.
“Self Advertised Military Missions in Latin America: What is Disclosed and Why?” co-authored with Antonio Ugues Jr., and Diego Esparza, Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review 38 (2010): 101-127.
“Neither Military Nor Police: Facing Heterodox Security Challengers and Filling the Security Gap in Democratic Latin America, Democracy and Security 6,2 (August, 2010): 109-127.
“Civilian Praetorianism and Military Shirking During Constitutional Crises in Latin America,” co-authored with Harold Trinkunas, Comparative Politics 42,4 (July 2010): 395-416.
“Informal Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: Why Politicians and Soldiers Choose Unofficial Venues,” Armed Forces & Society 36, 3 (2010): 526-544.
“Defense Organization and Civil-Military Relations in Latin America,” Armed Forces & Society 35,3 (April 2009): 562-586
“Militares y Democracia en el Nuevo Siglo: Cuatro Descubrimientos y Una Conclusión Sorprendente,” in Nueva Sociedad, 213 (Enero-Febrero, 2008): 50-63.
“Attention Deficits: Why Politicians Ignore Defense Policy in Latin America,” co-authored with Harold Trinkunas, Latin American Research Review 42, 3 (Fall 2007): 76-100.
“Issues, Threats and Institutions: Explaining OAS Responses to Democratic Dilemmas in Latin America,” co-authored with Craig Arceneaux, Latin American Politics and Society, 49, 2(Summer 2007): 1-31.
“The Defense Wisdom Deficit in Latin America: A Reply to Thomas C. Bruneau,” in Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad 20,1 (2006): 53-65.
“Democratization, Social Crisis, and the Impact of Military Domestic Roles in Latin America,” (co- authored with Harold Trinkunas), Journal of Political and Military Sociology 33,1 ( Summer 2005): 5-24.
“Political Management of the Military in Latin America,” Military Review, January-February 2005: 19-31.
“Authoritarian Legacies and Their Impact on Latin America,” Latin American Politics and Society, 47,2 (July 2005): 159-170.
“The Pinochet Case and Human Rights Progress in Chile: Was Europe a Catalyst, Cause or Inconsequential?” Journal of Latin American Studies 36 (August, 2004): 479-505
“A New Civil-Military Pragmatism in Latin America,” in Security and Defense Studies Review (online) 4, no.1 ( Spring 2004): 44-65.
"As Relações Civis-Militares na Argentina num Período Pós-Transição," Nação e Defesa 94 (Fall 2000):19-47.
“Decision-Makers or Decision-Takers? Military Missions and Civilian Control in Democratic South America,” co-authored with Craig Arceneaux, Armed Forces & Society 26, 3 (Spring 2000): 413-436.
“Will Soldiers Follow? Southern Cone Economic Integration and the Regional Security Issue,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 42 ( Spring 2000): 43-69.
“Tipping the Civil-Military Balance: Institutions and Human Rights Policy in Argentina and Chile,” co-authored with Craig Arceneaux, Comparative Political Studies 31 (October 1998): 633-661.
“The Limits to Military Power: Institutions and Defense Budgeting in Democratic Argentina,” Studies in Comparative International Development 33 (Spring 1998): 94-115.
"In the Balance: Argentina's Delicate, Civil-Military Equilibrium," Hemisphere 7, No. 2 (1996): 30-33.
"The Armed Forces and Politics: Gains and Snares in Recent Scholarship," Latin American Research Review 30 (1995): 147-162.
"To Prosecute or to Pardon? Human Rights Decisions in the Latin American Southern Cone, "Human Rights Quarterly 16 (February, 1994): 105-130.
Reprinted in Neil J. Kritz, ed. Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, Vol 1: General Considerations. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute for Peace, 1995, pp. 82-103.
"Military Autonomy and Emerging Democracies in South America," Comparative Politics 25 (October, 1992): 83-102.
"Autonomía Militar y Democracias Emergentes en América del Sur," Revista de Ciencias Sociales 3 (Noviembre de 1995): 119-155.
"Between Confrontation and Accommodation: Militaryand Government Policy in Democratic Argentina," Journal of Latin American Studies 23 (October, 1991): 543-571.
“Entre la Confrontación y la Adaptación: los Militares y la Política Gubernamental en la Argentina Democrática," in Ernesto López y David Pion-Berlin, Democracia y Cuestión Militar (Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 1996).
"Of Victims and Executioners: Argentine State Terror, 19751979," (Coauthored with George Lopez) International Studies Quarterly 35 (March, 1991): 63-86.
"Return to the Barracks: Recent Studies on Military Withdrawal from Power," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 32 (Spring, 1990): 137-145.
"The Latin American National Security Doctrines: Hard and Softline Themes," Armed Forces and Society 15 (Spring, 1989): 411429.
"The National Security Doctrine, Military Threat Perception and the Dirty War’ in Argentina," Comparative Political Studies 21 (October, 1988): 382407.
"Theories on Political Repression in Latin America: Conventional Wisdom and an Alternative," PS 18 (Winter, 1986): 4956.
"The Fall of Military Rule in Argentina: 19761983," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 27 (Summer, 1985): 5576.
"Political Repression and Economic Doctrines: The Case of Argentina," Comparative Political Studies 16(April, 1983): 3766.
Chapters
“Making the Military Accountable," in Dolores Trevizo, and Joe Foweraker, eds. Democracy and its Discontents in Latin America. Lynne Rienner, 2016.
“Military Relations in Comparative Perspective,” in Aurel Croissant, Holger Albrecht, and Fred Lawson, eds. Armies and Insurgencies in the Arab Spring University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
“Introduction,” in Organización de la defensa y control civil de las Fuerzas Armadas en Latinoamérica. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Jorge Baudino, 2013 (co-edited with José Manuel Ugarte)
“Latin American Civil-Military Relations: What Progress Has Been Made?” in Rafael Martínez and David Mares, eds. Debating Civil-Military Relations in Latin America. Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2013 (forthcoming).
“Military Dictatorships in Brazil and the Southern Cone.” World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean. Gale, Cengage Learning, 2012.
“The Latin American Military,” in Peter Kingstone and Deborah Yahsar, eds. Handbook on Latin American Studies, Routledge Press, 2012.
“Military Constitutions in Latin America,” RESDAL Atlas Comparativo de la Defensa en América Latina, 2011, pp. 36-38.
“Military Security and Development Missions in Latin America,” in Leticia Heras and John A. Booth, eds., Perspectivas para la democracia en America Latina,Toluca: Instituto Electoral del Estado de Mexico, 2009, pp. 305-326.
“The Challenge to Reform Defense,” in Thomas Bruneau and Harold Trinkunas, eds., Global Politics of Defense Reform, Palgrave, 2008.
“The Crisis of 2001 and Argentine Democracy’” in Ed Epstein and David Pion-Berlin, eds. Broken Promises? 3-26. The Argentine Crisis and Argentine Democracy (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006).
Preface to Thomas Bruneau and Scott Tollefson, eds. Who Guards the Guardians and How: Modern Civil-Military Relations Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006, ix-xiii.
“Security in the Southern Cone: Managing New and Old Threats,” in Louise Fawcett and Mónica Serrano, eds. Regionalism and Governance in the Americas: Managing Unequal Power (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Press, 2005).
"Methodological Bias in the APSR," co-authored with Dan Cleary, in Kristen Monroe, ed. Perestroika!The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, pp. 304-322.
"Tri-border Region: Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay," in Encyclopedia of World Terrorism, edited by Frank Shanty and Ray Picquet (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003).
“Introduction,” in David Pion-Berlin, ed. Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: New Analytical Perspectives (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), 1-35.
“Civil-Military Circumvention: How Argentine State Institutions Compensate for a Weakened Chain of Command,” in David Pion-Berlin, ed. Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: New Analytical Perspectives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001, 135-160.
"From Confrontation to Cooperation: Democratic Governance and Argentine Foreign Relations," in David R. Mares, ed. Civil-Military Relations: Building Democracy and Regional Security in Latin America, Southern Asia and Central Europe. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998, pp. 79-100.
"A House Divided: Crisis, Cleavage and Conflict in the Argentine Army" (Coauthored with Ernesto López) in Edward C. Epstein, ed. The New Democracy in Argentina: The Search for a Successful Formula. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1992, pp. 63-96.
"Una Casa Dividida: Crisis, Fractura, y Conflicto en el Ejército Argentino," in Ernesto López y David Pion-Berlin, Democracia y Cuestión Militar. Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 1996.
"The Ideological Governance of Perception in the Use of State Terror in Latin America: The Case of Argentina," in Vladimir Shlapentokh and Christopher Vanderpool, eds., State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal Repression. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991, pp. 135-152.
"Military Breakdown and Redemocratization in Argentina," in George A. Lopez and Michael Stohl eds. Liberalization and Redemocratization in Latin America. Westport: Greenwood Press, l987, pp. 209-230.