LESLIE ELLIOTT ARMIJO
Curriculum Vitae
July 2013
Lake Oswego, Oregon Email:
Phone: 503-699-7386 www.lesliearmijo.org
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Professional Employment
Portland State University, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Visiting Scholar, 2006-Present
Reed College, Department of Political Science, Visiting Associate Professor or Visiting Scholar, 1999-2001, 2003-05
Lewis & Clark College, Visiting Associate Professor, 2002-3
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Visiting Faculty, Summer 2001
Northeastern University, Assistant Professor, 1989-98
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, May 1989 (Political Science/ International Relations)
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, December 1980 (Political Science)
B.A. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May 1978 (Government), with Distinction
Teaching
International Relations/International Political Economy/Global Governance
Latin America/Asia/Developing Areas
International/Comparative Public Policy
Principal Research Themes
Democracy and markets
BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and global governance
Ideas in comparative & international policy (regions, climate, migration, energy, finance)
Developing areas (Brazil, Latin America, India)
Political economy of money/finance
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PUBLICATIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Books and Edited Volumes
Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging Markets Survived the Global Financial Crisis (with Carol Wise and Saori Katada, eds.). Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, Forthcoming 2014.
Special Issue on the BRIC Countries (ed.). Asian Perspective, 31:4, December 2007
Debating the Global Financial Architecture (ed.). Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002.
Financial Globalization and Democracy in Emerging Markets (ed.). New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 1999.
Conversations about Democratization and Economic Reform: Working Papers of the Southern California Seminar (ed.). Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Center for International Studies., 1995.
Articles
“Global Rebalancing and Financial Statecraft: Toward an Analytical Framework” (with Saori. Katada). New Political Economy, Forthcoming 2014.
“Equality and Regional Finance in the Americas,” Latin American Politics and Society, Forthcoming Winter 2013.
“Brazil, the Democratic and Entrepreneurial BRIC” (with Sean Burges). Special issue on the BRICS, edited by Cynthia A. Roberts. Polity, 42:1, January 2010, pp. 14-37.
“Two Dimensions of Democracy and the Economy.” (with Carlos Gervasoni). Democratization, 17:1, February 2010, pp. 143-174.
“Policy Responses to Globalization: Damned if You Do, Worse if You Don’t,” Review Essay, Latin American Research Review, 43:3, 2008, pp. 259-267.
“Does Democratization Alter the Policy Process? Trade Policymaking in Brazil” (with Christine A. Kearney). Democratization, 15:5, December 2008, pp. 991-1017.
“Leadership, Responsibility, Perhaps Democracy: New Thinking About Latin American Development,” Review Essay, Latin American Research Review, 42:2, 2007.
“The BRICs Countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) as Analytical Category: Insight or Mirage?” Asian Perspective, 31:4, December 2007, pp. 1-42.
“Brazil: To Be or Not to Be a BRIC?” (with Paulo Sotero). Asian Perspective, 31:4, December 2007, pp. 43-70.
“Compared to What? Assessing Brazilian Political Institutions” (with Philippe Faucher and Magdelena Dembinska). Comparative Political Studies, 39:6, August 2006, pp. 759-786.
“Mass Democracy: The Real Reason that Brazil Ended Inflation?,” World Development, 33:12, December 2005, pp. 2013-2028.
“Lamenting Weak Governance: Views on Global Finance,” Review Essay, International Studies Review, 6:3, 2004, pp. 447-452.
“Crises cambiais e estrutura decisória: a política de recuperação econômica na Argentina e no Brasil” (with Philippe Faucher). Dados (Rio de Janeiro) 47:2, 2004, pp. 297-334.
“Le rôle des institutions politiques dans les crises financières de l'Argentine et du Brésil” (with Philippe Faucher). Revue Tiers Monde (Paris), XLV: 178, April-June 2004, pp. 387-418.
"‘We Have a Consensus’: Explaining Political Support for Market Reforms in Latin America" (with Philippe Faucher). Latin American Politics and Society, 44:2, 2002, pp. 1-40.
"The Political Geography of World Financial Reform: Who Wants What and Why?," Global Governance, 7:4, 2001, Special issue on the Global Financial Architecture, edited by Susanne Soderberg.
"Center-State Relations in India and Brazil: Privatization of Electricity and Banking" (with Prem Shankar Jha). Revista de Economia Política (São Paulo), July/November 1997.
"Inflation and Insouciance: The Peculiar Brazilian Game," Latin American Research Review, 31:3, Fall 1996, 7-46.
"Menem's Mania?: The Timing of Argentine Privatization," Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas, 1:1, 1994, pp. 1-28.
"The Problems of Simultaneous Transitions" (with T.J. Biersteker and A.F. Lowenthal). Journal of Democracy, 5:4, October 1994, pp. 161-175.
"The Resurgence of Political Democracy in Contemporary Latin America," India International Centre Quarterly (New Delhi), 17:2, Monsoon Issue 1990, pp. 135-150.
Chapters
“Absolute or Relative Gains? How Status Quo and Emerging Powers Conceptualize Global Finance” (with John Echeverri-Gent). Forthcoming in Thomas Oatley and William Winecoft, eds. Handbook of International Monetary Relations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
“The Public Bank Trilemma: The BNDES and Brazil’s New Developmentalism.” Forthcoming in Peter Kingstone and Timothy Power, eds., Democratic Brazil Ascendant. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
“The Emerging Powers and Global Governance: Why the BRICS Matter” (with Cynthia A. Roberts). Forthcoming in Robert Looney, ed. Handbook of Emerging Economies. New York: Routledge.
“Introduction: Quick Rebound and Beyond” (with Carol Wise and Saori Katada). Forthcoming in Carol Wise, Leslie Armijo, and Saori Katada, eds. Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging Markets Survived the Global Financial Crisis. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution.
“Brazil as a Global Player.” Forthcoming in Peter Burnell, Victoria Randall, and Lise Rakner, eds. Politics in the Developing World, 4th ed. London: Oxford University Press.
“Regional Integration: Political Uses of Energy Policy” (with Christine A. Gustafson). In Maurício Font and Laura Randall, eds., The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda. Lanham and New York: Lexington, 2011.
“Who’s Afraid of Economic Populism? Counter-Intuitive Observations on Democracy and Brazilian Political Economy.” In Lourdes Sola and Laurence Whitehead, eds., Statecrafting Monetary Reform: Democracy and Financial Order in Brazil, Oxford: Centre for Brazilian Studies, Oxford University, Fall 2005.
"The Terms of the Debate [on International Financial Architecture]: What's Democracy Got to Do with It?." In Leslie Elliott Armijo, ed. Debating the Global Financial Architecture, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002.
"Mixed Blessing: Expectations about Foreign Capital and Democracy in Emerging Markets," and “Mixed Blessing: Conclusions,” both in L. E. Armijo, ed. Financial Globalization and Democracy in Emerging Markets, New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's, 1999.
"Balance Sheet or Ballot Box?: Incentives to Privatize in Emerging Democracies," in Philip Oxhorn and Pamela Starr, eds., The Problematic Relationship between Economic and Political Liberalization, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999
"India: Democratic Integrity and Financial Molasses." In R. Bingham and E. W. Hill, eds., Government and Business Finance: Global Perspectives on Economic Development, Newark: CUPR Press of Rutgers University, 1997.
"Brazil: Business-Government Financial Relations in the Land of 'Super-Inflation.'" In R. Bingham and E. W. Hill, eds., Government and Business Finance: Global Perspectives on Economic Development, Newark: CUPR Press of Rutgers University, 1997
"Brazilian Politics and Patterns of Financial Regulation, 1950-1991," in S. Haggard, C. Lee, and S. Maxfield, eds., The Politics of Finance in Developing Countries, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993, pp. 259-90.
Other Publications (Working papers, encyclopedia entries)
“Equality and Multilateral Financial Cooperation in the Americas,” Working Paper, Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, 2012, at www.desigualdades.edu
“Monetary Relations,” in B. Badie, D. Berg-Schlosser, and L Morlino, eds., International Encyclopedia of Political Science, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Reference, 2011.
“New International Financial Architecture,” in R.J. Barry Jones, ed., Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, London: Routledge, 2001.
"Tradeoffs Implicit in Sequencing Democracy and Economic Reform," in Leslie Elliott Armijo, ed., Conversations about Democratization and Economic Reform: Working Papers of the Southern California Seminar, Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Center for International Studies., 1995.
Book Reviews
After Neoliberalism?: The Left and Economic Reforms in Latin America, by Gustavo A. Flores-Macías (for Perspectives on Politics, Forthcoming).
Creative Destruction?: Economic Crises and Democracy in Latin America, by Francisco E. González (for Perspectives on Politics, Forthcoming).
Democratic Processes and Financial Markets: Pricing Politics, by William Bernhard and David Leblang (for Democratization, 2006).
The Financing of Politics: Latin American and European Perspectives. Edited by Eduardo Posada-Carbó and Carlos Malamud (for Perspectives on Politics, 2005)..
Under Review
“A Brave New World: Comparing Brazil’s and India’s Strategies to Manage Financial Globalization” (with John Echeverri-Gent). In Financial Statecraft and Emerging Powers, Leslie Elliott Armijo and Saori Katada, eds.
Financial Statecraft and Emerging Powers, ed. with Saori Katada.
“The Systemic Financial Importance of Emerging Powers” (with Laurissa Muehlich and Daniel Tirone). For proposed Special Issue “Measuring and Modeling Regional Powers,” ed. Philippe DeLombarde, Journal of Policy Modeling,.
In Progress
Contending Visions of the Americas: Regional Cooperation in the Foreign Policies of the United States, Venezuela, and Brazil (with Sybil Rhodes). Book manuscript.
Flavors of Capitalism: Voice, Ideology, and Money in India and Brazil (with John Echeverri-Gent). Book manuscript.
Theses
“Public Policy in a Semi-Autonomous State: The Political Economy of Brazil’s Financial Modernization, 1950 to 1987” (J. Das Gupta, D. Collier, A. Fishlow), Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1989
"Disrupting Rural Productive Structures: Land Reform in the USSR, Mexico, Taiwan, and Tanzania" (J. Das Gupta), M.A. Essay, University of California, Berkeley, 1983
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ADMINISTRATION, GRANTS, AND SERVICE
Academic and Project Administration
Co-Principal Investigator with Carol Wise and Saori Katada. Workshop Grant from Mellon Foundation and Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for” Financial Statecraft and Ascendant Powers: Latin America and Asia after the 2008-10 Global Financial Crisis,” 2011-2. Workshop held at University of Southern California, March 2012.
Co-Principal Investigator with S. Katada. Workshop Grant from International Studies Association (ISA) for Workshop on “Unexpected Outcomes across the Pacific Rim: The Quick Rebound of Emerging Markets from the 2008-09 Global Crisis,” 2010-1.Workshop held at University of Southern California, November 2011.
Co-Principal Investigator, de facto, with A. Sinha; University of Wisconsin Research Circle Grant for Workshop on “BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) in the Global Political Economy,” 2007. Workshop held in Madison, Spring 2008.
Principal Investigator. Alta Corbett Summer Collaborative Research Grant, Project on “Democracy and Economic Reform,” Reed College, 2000.
Co-Principal Investigator with Prem Shankar Jha. Grant from India section of IRIS (Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector) Project of University of Maryland, for “Center-State Policy Conflicts in Federal Systems: Privatization in India and Brazil,” 1995.
Director, “Master of Arts in Political Science” Program, and Founding Director, “Thesis Writers’ Workshop,” Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, 1996-8.
Principal Investigator. Workshop Grant for Junior Faculty, International Studies Association (ISA) for “Democratization and Financial Crises in Emerging Markets.” Workshop held at Brown University, 1995.
Chair, “Center for International Politics and Administration (CIPA),” Northeastern University, 1993-5.
Co-Coordinator (with Abraham F. Lowenthal and Thomas J. Biersteker), Colloquia Series, “Political and Economic Liberalization,” Center for International Studies, University of Southern California, 1992-3.
Honors and Grants (except as above)
Fall Faculty Fellowship, Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, 2011
Co-Applicant and Participant, Mellon Seminar on “Institutions and Economic, Political, and Social Organization,” Reed College, 2004-5
Political Economy Fellow, Center for International Studies, University of Southern California, “Indian Macroeconomic Policymaking in Comparative Perspective with Latin America.,”1992-3.
Principal Investigator, Indo/American Foundation Senior Research Grant for Non-South Asia Specialists to India, “Indian Macroeconomic Policymaking in Comparative Perspective with Latin America” 1991-2.
Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship to Brazil, 1984-5.
Other Professional Service/Administration
Chair, Tomassini Prize Committee for Best Book in International Relations or Political Economy, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2012-3.
Governing council, “Economics and Politics” Organized Section, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2010-1.
Co-Chair, Annual Meeting Track on “Transnationalism and Globalization,” Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2008-9.
Founder/Convener, “Portland International Economics & Politics (PDX-IPE) Group” (book group on international/comparative public policy for area faculty), 2007-9.
Best Article Prize Committee, Comparative Democratization Section, American Political Science Association (APSA), 2009-10.
Co-Chair, “Economics and Politics” Organized Section, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2004-7.
American Political Science Association (APSA) Task Force on “Difference and Inequality in Developing Societies,” 2003-6.
Reviewer for Cornell University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Lynne Rienner, International Organization, World Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, Review of International Political Economy, Democratization, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Studies in Comparative International Development, Business and Politics, Pacific Review, International Policy Studies, European Journal of International Relations, Chinese Journal of International Relations, 2008-13.
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RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS (recent only)
Invited Colloquia and Workshops
United Nations University, Centre for Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Brussels, June 21, 2013.
* “The Systemic Financial Importance of Emerging Powers,” GR:EEN and Agora Workshop on “Measuring and Modeling Regional Powers.”
University of Oxford, Brazil Centre, and Kings College London, Brazil Centre, February 21-22, 2013.
* “Brazil’s New Developmentalism,” Workshop on “Democratic Brazil Emergent.”
State University of São Paulo (UESP), Brazil, November 10-12, 2012.
* “Climate and Environmental Cooperation in the Americas” (with Sybil Rhodes), 2nd Workshop on “Hemisphere in Flux.”
Freie Universität Berlin, November 14, 2011.
* “Who are ‘The Americas’? Transregional financial links, unequal capabilities, and evolving regional identities,” Workshop on “Reducing Global and Intra-regional Inequalities: The Role of Monetary Cooperation and Integration”
American University, Center for Latin American and Latino Studie, October 13-15, 2011.
* “Environmental Policy Coordination in the Americas,” Workshop on “Hemisphere in Flux: International Relations and Multilateralism in the Inter-American System”
University of São Paulo, International Relations Institute (USP/IRI), Brazil, June 2011.
* “Global Rebalancing and the BRICS,” Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of Brazilian International Relations Association (ABRI).
Cornell University, Department of Government, October 30-November 1, 2009.
* “Financial Statecraft and the BRICs Countries,” Workshop on “The Global Effects of the American/European Financial Crisis in Middle-Income Countries and Emerging Markets”
Cornell University, Center for Latin American Studies, October 29, 2009.
* “Regional Integration in South America,” Colloquium Series on Latin America
Waterloo University, Institute of International Affairs, Toronto, September 25-26, 2008.
* “Financial Statecraft and the Emerging Powers,” Workshop on “Crisis and Response: Whither International Financial Regulation?”
United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Rio de Janeiro, July 11-12, 2008.
* “The Political Context of Brazilian Capital Markets Modernization” (with Walter L. Ness). Conference on Southern Engines of Global Growth—China, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 8-9, 2008.
* “The ‘BRICs Countries’ (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) as an Analytical Concept: Insight or Mirage?,” Workshop on “Emerging Powers in the Global System”
Simon Fraser University, Centre for Latin American Studies, Vancouver, B.C., February 25, 2008.
* “Brazil: To Be or Not to Be a BRIC?”
University of British Columbia, Department of Political Science, February 26, 2008.
* “Foreign Policy Options for Latin America’s New Left: Lula, Chávez, and Their Neighbors in an Increasingly Multipolar World”