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Maxwell A. Cameron (Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1989) specializesin comparative politics (Latin America) and international politicaleconomy. He wrote Democracy and Authoritarianism in Peru (St. Martin's 1994), co-edited The Peruvian Labyrinth (Penn State University Press, 1997), The Political Economy of North American Free Trade (McGill-Queen's 1993), Democracy and Foreign Policy (Carleton, 1995), To Walk Without Fear: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines (Oxford, 1998), Latin America's Left Turns: Politics, Policies and Trajectories of Change (Lynne Rienner, 2010), co-authored The Making of NAFTA: How the Deal Was Done (Cornell, 2000), edited a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (2002) on the topic of threats to democracy in Latin America, a special issue of Canadian Foreign Policy(2003) on the Inter-American Democratic Charter, and a special issue of Revista de Ciencia Politica on Andean democracy. He is currentlyconducting research supported by the Social Sciences and HumanitiesResearch Council (SSHRC) for a book on democracy without the separationof powers in Latin America. Cameron is on the editorial board of Business and Politics, the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Canadian Foreign Policy and Convergencia: Revista de Ciencia Sociales(Mexico). During the fall 2005 he was on leave at Yale University asCanadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor in the Yale Center forInternational and Area Studies, and between January and June 2006 hewas a visiting researcher at the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima,Peru. Between March and June 2006, Cameron served as political advisorto Lloyd Axworthy, Chief of the Electoral Observation Mission of theOrganization of American States in Peru. He is working with EricHershberg and Jon Beasley-Murray on a project on "Left Turns?Progressive Parties, Insurgent Movements, and Policy Alternatives inContemporary Latin America" with funding from the Peter Wall Instituteof Advanced Studies and SSHRC. Meanwhile, through the Centre for theStudy of Democratic Institutions, he has been organizing the "Andean Democracy Research Network",a research network to monitor and report on the state of democracy inthe Andean region with funding from the Martha Piper Fund and the GlynBerry Program of the Department of Foreign Affairs and InternationalTrade, Canada.

Theses Supervised: "Prosecuting Pinochet: The Role of Social Movements in Political Change" (Flavie Major); "Rethinking Pacts: Dealing with Pinochet in an Altered World" (Ross Burnside); "Reconciling Democracy and Multiculturalism: A Deliberative Approach" (Jonathan Quong); "Human Rights in a World of States: Global Norms and the Evolution of Political Space"; "The Dynamics of Competitive Liberalization and the Proliferation of Preferential Trade Agreements" (Mark Manger); "The Rule of Law and Non-Institutionalized Societal Accountability" (Ana-Maria Blanaru); "Ethnic Riots in Gujarat" (Mugdha Yeolekar); "The Mobilization of the Left and the Nationalization of the Hydrocarbon Sector: Bolivia" (Kate McElroy); "Undertow in the Third Wave: An Examination of Democratic Breakdown" (Peter Ferguson); Lesley Burns, "Bringing the Judiciary Back In: The Impact of Executive-Judicial Relations on Democratic Stability in Venezuela."  Current Doctoral Supervisions: Hyunji Lee; Netina Tan "Inducements and Constraints: A Mechanism-Based Explanation of Authoritarian Durability in Asia"). UBC Killam Postdoctoral Fellows Supervised: Andres Mejia Acosta; Tulia Falleti; Pablo Policzer

Political Science 332, term 2.  Latin American Politics and Government. Syllabus here.
Political Science 423B, term 2. Latin American Development. Syllabus here. 

• "El giro a la izquierda en el Peru: el caso de Ollanta Humala", Convergencia: Revista de Ciencias Sociales. Forthcoming in 2010. Download English version of text here and table 1 here. 
• "Latin America's Left Turns: beyond good and bad," Third World Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2009, pp. 331-348.
  
• "Canada's Engagement with Democracies in the Americas," Canadian Foreign Policy, Vol. 14, issue 3, October 2008 (with Catherine Hecht).
• "Reforma constitucional y democracia en America Latina en la actualidad," Reflexiones de Politica Democratica. No. 8. UAEM & IEEM, 2008, pp. 15-35.
  
• "Citizenship Deficits in Latin American Democracies," Convergencia: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Vol. 14, no. 45, September-December, 2007, pp. 11-30.
  
• "The Separation of Powers Reconsidered: Presidentialism and the Rule of Law," poster presented at the American Political Science Association Meetings, Philadelphia September 2, 2006. Co-authors: Ana-Maria Blanaru and Lesley Burns.
• "Endogenous Regime Breakdown: The Vladivideo and the Fall of Peru's Fujimori," in Carrion, ed. The Fujimori Legacy: The Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Penn State University Press, 2006, pp. 268-293.
  
• "Federalism and the Subnational Separation of Powers," Publius: The Journal of Federalism (with Tulia Falleti), Vol. 35, no. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 245-271.
• For more publications, see Selected Works.

"A Coup is a Coup is a Coup" The Mark, October 13, 2009 (with audio file).
"The defence of democracy cannot be selective" The Globe and Mail. July 3, 2009.
"Hold the applause for Mr. Uribe - just yet" The Globe and Mail. June 10, 2009.
"Behind Peru's Explosion of Violence" Global Post. June 9, 2009.
Testimony on Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement, Standing Committee on International Trade, House of Commons, Canada, May 26, 2009, CIIT No. 20, 2nd session, 40th Parliament.
"Where in the World is Canada?" The Mark, May 4, 2009.
"Another Blow to Latin American Democracy," The Embassy magazine February 25, 2009.
Coming to Terms with Chavez The Guardian, Comment is free. February 16, 2009.
"Turmoil in the Andes," The Ottawa Citizen, September 26, 2008.
"Will Venezuela's Chavez be Running for President in 2012?" Inter-American Dialogue's Latin America Advisor, July 28, 2008, p. 4.
Don't let the skeptics stop us from reducing our reliance on fossil fuel The Province. July 25, 2008.
Don't let climate-change deniers fool you -- the evidence is clear The Province. July 18, 2008.

• Organizer and participant in two back-to-back roundtables on the State of Democracy in the Andean region, Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 11-14, 2009. (Andean Democracy Research Network)
  
• "Politics, Political Parties, and Social Movements in Latin America Today." Talk delivered at a conference on "Tendencias Mundiales y su Impacto en Latino America," I Encuentor Venezuela en Boston, Boston University, June 28-30, 2008.
• “Latin America’s Left Turns: Beyond Good and Bad.” Presented in a panel on “The Latin American Left: Social Actors, Political Parties, and Development Strategies,” the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, June 6, 2008, Vancouver, BC.
  
• "Peru's Lefts and APRA's Victory," Presented at a conference on "Latin America's 'Left Turns': Political Diversity and Development Alternatives," organized by Steve Levitsky and Ken Roberts at Harvard University, Boston, April 4-5, 2008.
• Organized workshop on "The State of Democracy in the Andes," Lima, Peru, 14-15 December, 2007.
• "Latin America's Left Turns," Talk given to the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC, October 10, 2007 (with Jon Beasley-Murray).
• "The 2006 Election in Peru: Cleavages, Parties, and Outsiders," presented in a panel on "Contemporary Developments in Peruvian Politics: The 2006 Elections and Beyond," XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, 5-8 September 2007.