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 Policy Without Illusion, and The Democratic Revolution in Latin America.
