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Security and Defense Studies ReviewContributing AuthorsR. Evan Ellis, Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the Center for HemisphericDefense Studies, is the author of China in Latin America: The Whats and Wherefores (LynneRienner, 2009).Alejandro Arévalo Sarce, a public administrador at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, is agraduate in security and defense from Chile’s National Academy of Political and Strategic Studies(ANEPE).Carlos Maldonado, a historian with Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany, is aninternational advisor to the Chilean Defense Ministry.Juan Carlos Ruiz Vasquez, an Oxford-educated political scientist, is a professor at theUniversidad de Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia, specializing in citizen security and the police.Hilton McDavid, director of the Centre for National Security and Strategic Studies at TheUniversity of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, is also an adjunct professor at the Center forHemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University.Diaram Ramjee Singh, senior lecturer in Managerial Economics at the University of the WestIndies in both the undergraduate and graduate management programs, is the author of three books,the two most recent of which are on micro and macro economics.Allan Wright, a recently appointed lecturer in the Department of Management Studies at theUniversity of the West Indies, has more than ten years of commercial working experience withseveral leading national and regional based conglomerates.María Cristina Montenegro is a professor and researcher at the Law and Social SciencesFaculty at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina.David E. Spencer, a Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies assistant professor of nationalsecurity affairs, was a civilian advisor to the Colombian government as it created its successfuldemocratic security strategy.Martin Edwin Andersen, chief of strategic communications at the Center for HemisphericDefense Studies and an adjunct professor at the School of International Service at AmericanUniversity, is the author of Peoples of the Earth; Ethnonationalism, Democracy and the IndigenousChallenge in “Latin” America (Lexington Books, 2010).John C. Thompson, dean of Students and Administration at the Center for Hemispheric DefenseStudies and a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, has served as presidentof the Inter-American Defense Board, and as director of the Inter-American Defense College.Frank O. Mora, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, is aformer professor of national security strategy and Latin American studies at the National War Collegeat the National Defense University.Crescencio S. Arcos, political advisor to the director of the Center for Hemispheric DefenseStudies, is a former assistant secretary and director of international affairs at U.S. Department ofHomeland Security (2003-2006), a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Boardat the White House (1999-2003) and the former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras.142Security and Defense Studies Review 2009/Edición 2009/ Edicão 2009/ Volume 9, Issues 1 & 2