DAVID SCOTT PALMER
International Relations & Political Science
Pardee School of Global Studies
Boston University
152 Bay State Road
Boston MA 02215-1508
Tel: 617-353-9388, Fax: -9290
September 2016
Professional Background
Boston University, 1988-
Emeritus Professor of International Relations and Political Science, 2012-
Professor of International Relations and Political Science, 1988-2012
Chair, Department of Political Science, 1998-2001
Director, Latin American Studies Program, 1991-94, 2004, 2009-10 Co-Director, Peru Summer Program, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, 1976-88
Chair, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Coordinator, Advanced Area Studies, 1980-88
Associate Dean for Programs, School of Area Studies, 1984-88
Bowdoin College, 1972-76
Instructor, 1972
Assistant Professor, 1973-76
Dartmouth College, 1964-68
Assistant Dean of Freshmen
Assistant to the Director of Admissions
U.S. Peace Corps in Peru, 1962-64
Volunteer Leader, Ayacucho
Visiting or Temporary Appointments
Federico Gil Chair in Politics, University of Salamanca, Spain, 2011
Professor, FLACSO Ecuador, 2006, 2008, 2012
Scholar, Inter-American Dialogue, Washington DC, 2001-02
Fulbright Senior Lecturer, University of Huamanga, Ayacucho Peru, 1998
Professor, University of Salamanca, Spain, 1997-
Professorial Lecturer, S.A.I.S. Johns Hopkins, 1977-88
Professor or Lecturer, Georgetown (1979-82, 1985-86), George Washington (1982-83, 1987-88), George Mason (1983), American (1982), Princeton (1978-79), Catholic University of Peru (1971-72), University of Huamanga (1962-63)
Boston University Courses (Since 2012)
Conflict & Conflict Resolution in Latin America (IR411/PO566)
Contemporary Issues in Latin America (IR766/PO768) – two credits
U.S.-Latin American Relations (IR568/PO563)
Latin America Past and Present (IR 713/PO 768) – four credits
Education
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1973 (Government)
M.A. Stanford University, 1962 (Latin American Studies)
School of Political and Administrative Sciences, University of Chile, 1960
School of Social Sciences, University of Uruguay, 1960
B.A. Dartmouth College, 1959 (International Relations) cum laude
Honors (Since 2000)
Federico Gil Distinguished Chair, University of Salamanca, Spain, 2011
Who’s Who (various), 2001-
Directory of American Scholars, 2001
Honors Program Teaching Award, Boston University, 2007
Faculty of the Year Nominee, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, 2006
Board of Visitors, Tucker Foundation, Dartmouth College, 2005-11
Vice-presidential nominee, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2004
Scholar of the Year, International Biographical Institute, Cambridge, England, 2003
Bankhead Lecture, University of Alabama, 2003.
Outstanding Service Award, New England Council of Latin American Studies, 2000
Selected Professional Activities (Since 2000)
Member, Carter Center Election Study Mission to Peru, 2016
Panelist, Rand Corporation, “Insurgent and Terrorist Groups,” 2014
Visiting Lecturer, University of Mendoza, Argentina, 2014; University of Monterrey, Mexico, 2013
External Reviewer, Doctoral Program in International Studies, FLACSO Ecuador, 2012, 2015
Member, Executive Council, Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política (ALACIP), 2011-15
Study Leader, Smithsonian Journeys, Caribbean, Peru, Costa Rica-Panama, Patagonia, Galapagos, continuing since 2011
Lecturer, Massachusetts National Guard Partnership Program in Paraguay, 2010
Lecturer, Public Diplomacy Program, U.S. Department of State: Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, 2006; Paraguay, Uruguay, 2008; Chile 2014
Presenter, Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, 2013
Fulbright National Screening Committee for South America, 2005-09
Chair, External Review Committee, Latin American Studies, Dartmouth College, 2004
Terrorism Working Group, U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), 2003-04
Conflict Mitigation and Prevention Specialist, USAID, Nepal, 2002-03
Global Expertise Academic Reserve, National Intelligence Council (NIC), 2002-14
Lecturer, State Department Foreign Service Institute, continuing
Ambassador briefings, State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research, continuing
Advisory Board, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Library of Congress, continuing
(Contributing Editor, Peru politics section, through 2000)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Life Member (Fundraising Committee, continuing; Panel Presenter, Discussant, or Chair, continuing)
New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) Executive Committee (continuing); Panelist or Chair (continuing)
Invited lecturer, Defense Department USAF Special Operations School, continuing
USN War College, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2011
National Defense University (NDU) 2001, 2002, 2013
Publications: Books
Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace: Lessons from Peru and Ecuador, 1995-1998, with David Mares. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012 (paperback edition, 2013)
Translation as Poder, instituciones y liderazgo en la paz y la guerra: Aprendizajes de Perú y Ecuador (1995-1998). Serie Atrio. Quito: FLACSO Sede Ecuador, 2012
U.S. Relations with Latin American during the Clinton Years: Opportunities Lost or Opportunities Squandered? Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006
Shining Path of Peru. Editor and Contributor, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
2nd edition revised and updated 1994
The Latin American Military Institution. Co-author with Robert Wesson and others, New York: Praeger, 1986
Peru: The Authoritarian Tradition. New York: Praeger, 1980
Military Government and Political Development: Lessons From Peru, with Kevin
Middlebrook. Professional Papers in Comparative Politics, #01-054, Beverly Hills: Sage, 1975
“Revolution From Above”: Military Government and Popular Participation in Peru, 1968-1972. Latin American Studies Program #47, Ithaca: Cornell University, 1973
Publications: Articles in Academic Journals (Selected)
“Terror en el nombre de Mao: Revolución, respuestas y consecuencias en el Perú,” Cuadernos de Conflicto y Paz, #2 (enero-marzo) Universidad de Monterrey, México, 2015
“A Road Less Traveled By: Peru’s Difficult Post-Conflict Reconciliation Process,” Revista: Harvard Review of Latin America 14:1, Fall 2014
“Debate sobre ALBA y la Alianza del Pacífico,” Realidad y Perspectivas, 23 (Santiago: Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Chile, agosto 2013)
“Perú elecciones 2011: Una polarización inesperada,” con Carmen Rosa Balbi Cuadernos Americanos 138, octubre-diciembre 2011
“Obama no se puede,” América Económica, 1 de septiembre de 2009, www.americaeconomica.com
“América Latina: estratégias para enfrentar los retos de la globalización,” Nueva Sociedad 214 (marzo-abril 2008)
“’Terror in the Name of Mao:’ Revolution and Response in Peru,” Perspectivas Latinoamericanas, (Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Universidad Nanzan, Nagoya, Japan) 2, 2005
“Radical Maoist Insurgents and Terrorist Tactics: Comparing Peru and Nepal,” with Thomas A. Marks, Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement, 13: 2, Autumn 2005.
“Boundary Disputes in Latin America,” with Jorge Dominguez, David Mares, Francisco Rojas, and Andrés Serbin, Peaceworks #50, USIP (Washington D.C.: USIP Press, September 2003). Translated and published as “Disputas fronterizas en América Latina,” in Foro Internacional (Mexico), 44:3, 177, julio-septiembre de 2004.
“Democracy and the Military: Redefining Missions amidst Multiple Challenges,” Revista: Harvard Review of Latin America, 2:1, Fall 2002.
“Overcoming the Weight of History: ‘Getting to Yes’ in the Peru-Ecuador Border Dispute,” Diplomacy & Statecraft, 12:2, June 2001.
“Political Earthquake: The 70 Days that Shook Peru,” with Carmen Rosa Balbi, LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Forum, 31:4, Winter 2001.
“Democracy and Its Discontents in Fujimori’s Peru,” Current History 99:634, February 2000. Other articles on Peru are in the February 1996 and January 1990 issues.
“Relaciones entre los EE.UU. Y el Perú en la década de los 90: Dinámicas, antecedentes, y proyecciones,” Política Internacional (Perú), Revista de la Academia Diplomática del Perú, August 1998.
“Peru-Ecuador Border Conflict: Missed Opportunities, Misplaced Nationalism, and Multilateral Peacekeeping,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 39:3, Fall 1997.
“Latin America in the 1990s: New Opportunities and New Challenges,” Small Wars and Insurgencies, 7:1, Spring 1996.
“Peru’s 1995 Elections: A Second Look,” LASA Forum (Latin American Studies Association), 26:2, Summer 1995.
“Peru, the Drug Business, and Shining Path: Between Scylla and Charybdis?” Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, 34:3, Fall 1992.
“Rebellion in Rural Peru: The Origins and Evolution of Sendero Luminoso,” Comparative Politics, 18:2, January 1986.
“The Changing Political Economy of Peru Under Military and Civilian Rule,” Inter-American Economic Affairs, 37:4, Spring 1984.
“Military Governments and U.S. Policy: General Concerns and Central American Cases,” Foreign Policy and Defense Review, June 1982.
“Political Participation Under Military Rule: Africa and Latin America Compared,” with Christian P. Potholm II. Cultures et development, 10:3, Fall 1978 (reprinted in Africa Quarterly, 17:4, 1978; and Plural Societies, 9:1, 1978).
“The Peruvian Military Government: The Problems of Popular Participation,” with Jorge Rodríguez Beruff, Bulletin of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, 4:4, 1972.
Publications: Chapters in Books (Selected)
“Countering Terrorism in Latin America: The Case of Shining Path in Peru,” in James J.F. Forest, ed. Essentials of Counterterrorism. Praeger Security International Textbook. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2015.
“The Influence of Maoism in Peru,” in Alexander Cook, ed. Mao’s Little Red Book. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
“Peru in the Twenty-First Century: Confronting the Past, Charting the Future,” with Julio Carrión, in Howard J. Wiarda and Harvey F. Kline, eds., Latin American Politics and Development, 8th ed., 2014. Sole author chapter on Peru to the 1st – 7th editions with the same editors, published in 1979, 1985, 1989, 1996, 2000, 2006, and 2011.
“Actores relevantes en la política exterior hemisférica: espacio y rol de los Estados Unidos,” in Francisco Rojas Aravena, ed. América Latina y el Caribe: Relaciones Internacionales en el siglo XXI – Diplomacia de Cumbres y espacios de concertación regional y global. FLACSO Secretaría General. Buenos Aires: Editorial Teseo, 2012.
“Overcoming Terrorism in Peru without Negotiation or Reconciliation,” in Judith Renner and Alexander Spencer, eds. Reconciliation after Terrorism: Strategy, Possibility, or Absurdity? New York: Routledge, 2011.
“El tratado de paz entre Ecuador y Perú de octubre de 1998: percepciones recíprocas diez años después,” in Ecuador-Perú: Evaluación de una década de paz y desarrollo. Claudia Donoso, compilador. Quito: FLACSO Ecuador, 2009.
“Terror in the Name of Mao: Revolution and Response in Peru,” in Robert Art and Louise Richardson, eds., Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past, Washington DC: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2007.
“Countering Terrorism in Latin America: The Case of Shining Path in Peru,” in James Forest, ed., Countering Terrorism in the 21st Century: International Perspectives, Volume 3: Lessons from the Fight against Terrorism. Westport CT: Praeger Security International, 2006. Updated chapter in the 2nd edition, 2015.
“The Often Surprising Outcomes of Asymmetry in International Affairs: United States-Peru Relations in the 1990s,” in Julio Carrión, ed., The Fujimori Legacy. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
“Estados Unidos: El gran hermano?” Los Estados Unidos de América y Chile: Una nueva relación? Santiago, Chile: Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile, 2005.
“The Persistence of Authoritarianism and Corporatism in the Andes: The Case of Peru,” in Howard J. Wiarda, ed. Corporatism and Authoritarianism in Latin America – Revisited. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2004.
“Citizen Responses to Conflict and Political Crisis in Peru: Informal Politics in Ayacucho,” in Susan Eckstein and Timothy Wickham-Crowley, eds. What Justice? Whose Justice? Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
“FONCODES y su impacto en la pacificación del Perú: Observaciones generales y el caso de Ayacucho,” in FONCODES, Concertando para el desarrollo: Lecciones aprendidas del FONCODES y sus estratégias de intervención. Lima: Ministerio de la Presidencia, 2001.
“Violencia polìtica en el Perú: Sendero Luminoso en su perspectiva histórica,” in Luis Millones and José Villa Rodríguez, eds. Perú: El llegado de la historia. Sevilla: Collección América, Universidad de Sevilla, 2001.
“Continuing Challenges to Multilateral Peacekeeping Efforts in the Peru-Ecuador Border Conflict,” in T.S. Montgomery, ed. Peacekeeping and Democratization in the Western Hemisphere: Multilateral Missions. Miami: North-South Center Press, 2000.
“The Search for Conflict Resolution: The Guarantors and the Peace Process in the Ecuador- Peru Dispute,” in Gabriel Marcella and Richard Downes, eds. Security Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Resolving the Ecuador-Peru Conflict. Miami: North South Center Press, 1999.
“The Latin American Military,” in Jack Hopkins, ed. Latin America: Perspectives on a Region, Second Edition. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1998. Contribution in the 1st edition with the same editor, 1987.
“Las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y Perú durante los gobiernos del Presidente Clinton,” in Andrés Franco, ed. Estados Unidos y los países andinos, 1993-1997: Poder y desintegración. Santa Fé de Bogotá: Centro Editorial Javeriano, 1998.
“Democracy in Peru?” in Phil Kelly, ed. Assessing Democracy in Latin America. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.
“Peru: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Western Hemisphere,” in Tom Farer, ed., Beyond Sovereignty, an Inter-American Dialogue book. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
“The Revolutionary Terrorism of Peru’s Shining Path,” in Martha Crenshaw, ed. Terrorism in Context. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
“National Security,” in Rex A. Hudson, ed. Peru: A Country Study. Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1993.
“Terrorism as a Revolutionary Strategy: Peru’s Sendero Luminoso, in Barry Rubin, ed. The Politics of Terrorism. Washington: Foreign Policy Institute, The John Hopkins University, 1989.
“U.S. Policy Issues in the Caribbean in the 1980s: Economic, Social, and Political Aspects,” in James R. Greene and Brent Snowcroft, eds. Western Interests and U.S. Policy Options in the Caribbean Basin. Boston: Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, 1984.
“Reformist Military Rule and Its Implications for Latin America,” in Robert Wesson, ed. The New Military Politics in Latin America. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1982.
“The Post-Revolutionary Political Economy of Peru,” in Stephen M. Gorman, ed. Post- Revolutionary Peru: The Politics of Transformation. Boulder: Westview Press, 1981.
“Citizen Participation Under Military Rule,” with Henry Dietz, in John Booth and Mitchell Seligson, eds. Political Participation in Latin America, New York: Holmes and Meier, 1978.
“The Politics of Authoritarian Political Development in Spanish America,” in James Malloy, ed. Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.
“Transforming the Rural Sector: Government Policy and Peasant Response,” with Susan Bourque, in Abraham Lowenthal, ed. The Peruvian Experiment: Continuity and Change Under Military Rule. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
“The Peace Corps and the Peruvian University,” in Robert Textor, ed. Cultural Frontiers of the Peace Corps. Cambridge, M.I.T. Press, 1966.
Publications: Articles in Reference Works
“Sendero Luminoso and Anti-Imperialism,” in Immanuel Ness and Saer Maty Ba, eds. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015.
“Guerrilla Insurgencies in Latin America,” Annotated bibliography, with Thomas A. Marks, in Oxford Bibliographies Online, November 2011. www.obo.com
Multiple entries on Peru in Joseph S. Tulchin, ed., Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd ed., Farmington Hills MI: Macmillan Reference, 2007.