e-mail: lopez-al@soc.ucsb.edu

Fields of Interest: Comparative Politics, Globalization, Comparative Institutional Development

Professor Lopez-Alves' research interests include comparative politics with an emphasis in globalization and comparative social history and institutions. He has published two books on state formation in Latin America: a monograph, Between the Economy and the Polity in the River Plate (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 1993), and State Formation and Democracy in Latin America (Duke University Press, 2000). He is co-author of The Other Mirror: Grand Theory and Latin America (Princeton University Press, 2001), as well as co-author of Disciplinary Globalization, another edited volume. Lopez-Alves' Societies Without Future (Taurus/Santillana Press) was published in 2002 and is now in its third edition. He is also the editor of Seven Scenarios for the 21st Century, published in 2004 by Sudamericana Press. His articles on Globalization, Latin America, and Comparative Politics have appeared in Latin American Research Review, edited collections, and Past & Present. He is presently working on another book manuscript, "Neo Liberal Pessimism and the Construction of the Future in Latin America."

Courses Taught:

PS 105	Theories of Comparative Politics
PS 106	Globalization in the Less Developed Areas
PS 148	Reform and Revolution in Latin America
PS 230	Comparative Political Systems
PS 282A	Comparative Politics and Latin America

Selected Recent Publications:
Seven Scenarios for the 21st Century (Siete Escenarios para el Siglo XXI), Sudamericana Press, 2004.

Societies Without Future (Sociedades sin Destino), Taurus/Santillana Press (Argentina), 2002.

The Other Mirror: Grand Theory Through the Lens of Latin America (with Miguel Angel Centeno), Princeton University Press, 2001.

State Formation and Democracy in Latin America, 1810-1900, Duke University Press, 2000.