David Pion-Berlin
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Professor 2215 Watkins Hall David Pion-Berlin (Professor) received his Ph.D from the University of Denver and joined the UCR faculty in 1991. He is a Latin Americanist widely known for his research and writings on civil-military relations, defense, security, political repression and human rights. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Comparative Politics, The Politics of the Developing World, Modern Tyrannies, Latin American Politics, and Civil-Military Relations. He is the author or editor of six books and several dozen articles and chapters. Among his publications are Broken Promises? The Argentine Crisis and Argentine Democracy, co-edited with Edward Epstein (Lexington Press, 2006); Transforming Latin America: The International and Domestic Origins of Change, co-authored with Craig Arceneaux (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: New Analytical Perspectives (University of North Carolina Press, 2001); Through Corridors of Power: Institutions and Civil-Military Relations in Argentina (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997); Democracia y Cuestión Militar (co-authored with Ernesto López, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes 1996); and The Ideology of State Terror: Economic Doctrine and Political Repression in Argentina and Peru (Rienner Publishers, 1989). His articles have appeared in such journals as Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, The Latin American Research Review, Latin American Politics and Society, The Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, The Journal of Latin American Studies, The Human Rights Quarterly, Armed Forces and Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, and others. Among his awards are the 1985 APSA Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best dissertation in the field of Comparative Politics, and grants from the Fulbright Commission, The Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, The Tinker Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation. Currently, his research focuses on military responses to civilian praetorianism in Latin America.
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