David Scott Palmer Author

David R. Mares is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, where he also serves as Institute of the Americas Chair for Inter-American Affairs and is Director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. His previous books include Drug Wars and Coffeehouses: The Political Economy of Drug Policy, Violent Peace: Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America, and The United States and Chile: Coming in from the Cold with Francisco Rojas Aravena.

David Scott Palmer is Professor of International Relations and of Political Science at Boston University, where he is also Founding Director of the Latin American Studies Program. His previous books include U.S. Relations with Latin America during the Clinton Years, Shining Path of Peru (ed.), and Peru: The Authoritarian Tradition.