Lecture will be in English with simultaneous interpretation in Arabic

Editor-in-Chief, Latin American Research Review

Theories of Civil Society, Democracy and Citizenship

The relationship between short-term conflict resolution and longer term goals of development and democratization in fragile and post-conflict states

Civil Society and the Promotion of Public Health: A North-South Comparison of Civil Society's Role in the Prevention and Treatment of Highly Contagious Disease

The linkages between gender equality, economic growth and Household Incomes

Civil Society and the Resolution of Contemporary Problems: Crime, Low Quality Education and Sustainable Development

Latin American Comparative Politics

Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011)

Beyond Neoliberalism? Patterns, Responses, and New Directions in Latin America and the Caribbean, contributor and co-editor with Kenneth Roberts and John Burdick (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

Decentralization, Democratic Governance, and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective: Africa, Asia, and Latin America. contributor and co-editor with Joseph S. Tulchin, and Andrew D. Selee. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/the Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004

What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism. co-editor with G. Ducatenzeiler. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998

Markets and Democracy in Latin America: Conflict or Convergence? Contributor and Co-editor with Pmela Starr. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1999

Organizing Civil Society: The Popular Sectors and the Struggle for Democracy in Chile. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995