Howard J. Wiarda is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Professor of National Security Studies at the National Defense University, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. A former visiting professor at MIT and George Washington University and research associate at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard; he has also been the Director of Latin American studies at the American Enterprise Institute and is the author of numerous books, including "Latin American Politics and Development, Foreign Pol...