Carol Wise

Bio

Carol Wise is an Associate Professor for the  School of International Relations at the University of Southern California.  Prof. Wise teaches courses on Latin American economic development, trade politics in the Western Hemisphere, international political economy, and North-South relations. Ms. Wise joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1994. Professor Carol Wise specializes in political economy issues as they relate to the development process in Latin America. She has written on trade integration, exchange rate politics, and the political economy of state reform in the region. In terms of country expertise within Latin America, Prof. Wise has focused most on Argentina, Mexico, and Peru. She is currently completing a co-authored book on The Politics of Economic Transformation in Mexico. Dr. Wise is the author of numerous articles on Latin American political economy and she has produced the following books: Reinventing the State: Economic Strategy and Institutional Change in Peru (forthcoming, University of Michigan Press); The Post-NAFTA Political Economy: Mexico and the Western Hemisphere, editor (Penn State Press, 1998); Exchange Rate Politics in Latin America, co-editor (Brookings, 2000); and Post-Reform Elections in Latin America,co-editor (forthcoming). Dr. Wise received her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.

Academic Background

  • Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. 1974

  • Master of Public Administration, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.1982 

  • Master of Philosophy, Political Science, Columbia University.1986 

  • Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University.1991
    Major Fields: Comparative Politics, International Political Economy
    Regional Emphases: Latin America, Emerging Market Economies

Areas of Expertise

  • Regions: Latin America; Mexico; Peru; developing nations

  • Economic Development

  • International Political Economy

  • NAFTA; North-South issues

Present Position (s)

  • Professor for the  School of International Relations at the University of Southern California

Previous Position (s)

  • Johns Hopkins University, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.  1994/2001
    Five graduate courses: 1) Latin America and the International Political Economy; 2) The New North American Political Economy; 3) The Andean Region in Transition; 4) The Politics of Western Hemispheric Integration; 5) Latin American Economic Development;  6) Comparative Political and Economic Analysis (doctoral tutorial).

  • Georgetown University.  Two graduate courses: 1) Political and Economic Transitions in the Western Hemisphere; 2) International Political Economy.1994

  • The Claremont Graduate School.  Four graduate courses: 1) The Politics of Economic Development; 2) International Political Economy; 3) Organization and Global Development; 4) Latin American Political Economy. 1991/93

  • University of California at Los Angeles. Two undergraduate courses: 1) International Political Economy; 2)  Latin American Political Economy.1990/91

Research and Other Work Experience 

  • Research Consultant: Salomon, Smith, Barney, Schwab Washington Research Group, US Trust, General Cable Corporation. 1995/2001

  • Resident Associate, The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC.  Director of a project entitled "The Political Economy of North American Integration."  1993/94

  • Assistant Professor, Center for Politics and Economics, The Claremont Graduate School. An academic appointment in the fields of international political economy and North-South relations which involved graduate and undergraduate teaching, placement of students in internships and jobs, and the development of an in-house research agenda on political and economic relations in the western hemisphere.  1991/93

  • Research Associate, Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC. Lead research and writing responsibilities on a project entitled "U.S.-Latin American Relations and the Changing Global Context." 1990

  • Doctoral Fellow, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Peru. Independent dissertation research on Peru's public political economy, with a focus on the rise of the state sector since 1968 and the political underpinnings of economic policy outcomes.1987

  • Research Consultant, the Ford Foundation, Lima, Peru. Project evaluation and assistance of local research institutes in preparing grant proposals for projects concerning external debt, international relations and security studies within the Andean and Southern Cone regions of South America.1986     

  • Summer Research Fellow, United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, New York City. Major responsibilities on a project analyzing the Brazilian government's efforts to regulate the domestic computer industry.1982 

Other Activities and Memberships

Publications

Books

  • Post-Reform Politics in Latin America: Competition, Transition, Collapse, co-edited with Riordan Roett, Brookings Institution, forthcoming 2003

  • Reinventing the State:  Economic Strategy and Institutional Change in Peru. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2002

  • Exchange Rate Politics in Latin America, co-edited with Riordan Roett.  Washington, DC:  Brookings Institution, 2000

  • The Post-NAFTA Political Economy:  Mexico and the Western Hemisphere, edited by Carol Wise.  University Park, PA:  The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

  • Post-Reform Politics in Latin America: Competition, Transition, Collapse, co-edited with Riordan Roett, Brookings Institution, forthcoming 2002

  • Twenty Years After:  The Politics of Economic Transformation in Mexico, co-authored with Manuel Pastor, in progress

Journal Articles

  • "Argentina: From Poster Child to Basket Case," (with Manuel Pastor). Foreign Affairs (November-December 2001), forthcoming

  • "Latin American Trade Strategy at Century's End."   Business and Politics 2 (1999): 2-46

  • "The Politics of Second Generation Reform" (with Manuel Pastor).  Journal of Democracy 10 (1999): 34-48

  • "Stabilization and Its Discontents: Argentina's Economic Restructuring in the 1990's" (with Manuel Pastor).  World Development 3 (1999): 477-503

  • "Liberalization and Ethnic Conflict in Latin America" (with Alison Brysk).  Studies in Comparative International Development 2 (1997): 76-104

  • "State Policy, Distribution, and Neoliberal Reform in Mexico" (with Manuel Pastor).  Journal of Latin American Studies 2 (1997): 419-456

  • "Challenges for Western Hemispheric Integration" (with Manuel Pastor).  SAIS Review 2 (1995): 1-16.

  • "The Origins and Sustainability of Mexico's Free Trade Policy" (with Manuel Pastor). International Organization 3 (1994): 459-489

  • "The Politics of Peruvian Economic Reform: Overcoming the Legacies of State-led Development."  Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 1 (1994): 75-125

  • "Peruvian Economic Policy in the 1980's: From Orthodoxy to Heterodoxy and Back (with Manuel Pastor).  Latin American Research Review 2 (1992): 83-117

  • "The Regional Implications of Public Investment in Peru" (with Patricia A. Wilson).  Latin American Research Review 2 (1986): 93-116

  • Working Papers & Chapters in Edited Collections:

  • "Politics Unhinged: Market Reforms as the Catalyst for Mexico's Democratic Transition," in Post-Reform Politics in Latin America: Competition, Transition, Collapse," edited by Carol Wise and Riordan Roett, forthcoming, 2002

  • "The FTAA: Collective Action or Collective Apathy?"  In Latin America's International Relations in the 21st Century, edited by Riordan Roett and Guadalupe Paz, forthcoming 2002

  • "Latin America and the State-Market Debate: Beyond Stylized Facts."  Paper prepared for the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association Meetings, Cartagena, April 6-8, 2000

  • "Argentina's Currency Board:  The Ties that Bind?"  In Exchange Rate Politics in Latin America, edited by Carol Wise and Riordan Roett.   Washington, DC:  Brookings Institution, 2000

  • "U.S.-Andean Trade and Investment Relations: Policy Issues and Choices."  In The Andean Community and the United States: Trade and Investment Relations in the 1990s, edited by Miguel Rodriguez, Patricia Correa, and Barbara Kotschwar.  Washington, DC: Organization of American States, Inter-American Dialogue, and Andean Development Corporation, 1998 

  • "Trading Places:  U.S. Latinos and Trade Liberalization in the Americas" (with Manuel Pastor).  In Borderless Borders:  The Impact of Globalization on the Latino Economy, edited by Rebecca Morales and Frank Bonilla.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1998.

  • "The Trade Scenario for Other Latin Reformers in the NAFTA Era," in The Post-NAFTA Political Economy, edited by Carol Wise.  University Park:  The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998

  • "State Policy and Social Conflict in Peru." In The Peruvian Labyrinth, edited by Maxwell Cameron and Philip Mauceri.  University Park:  The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997

  • "The Politics of Free Trade in the Western Hemisphere" (with Manuel Pastor).  Agenda Papers, No. 20, North-South Center, University of Miami, August 1996

  • "In Search of Markets: Latin America's State-led Dilemma."  New York:  Columbia University, Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies, Papers on Latin America, No. 33, 1993

  • "Democratization, Crisis, and the APRA's Modernization Project in Peru." In Debt and Democracy in Latin America, edited by Barbara Stallings and Robert Kaufman.  Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1989

Current Research Projects

Conducting research on two new projects:

  • The first is a comparison of the politics of institutional reform in the Andean region of South America, with an eye toward identifying those organization bottlenecks that have contributed to the considerable reform gaps still present in that region.

  • The second project will analyze the ways in which income distribution and wage trends across the NAFTA bloc have stubbornly defied the dictates of economic integration theory, which holds that such indicators should converge in an upward direction, as opposed to the regressive trends currently in motion.
     

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