Visions and Reality in Caribbean/Latin American Relations

Thursday, September 27, 2007
7 p.m., Elaine Langone Center Forum

Anthony T. Bryan
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, D.C.

Anthony T. Bryan, PhD, Professor of International Relations, is presently a Senior Associate in the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., and a consultant professor at The University of the West Indies-St. Augustine, in Trinidad and Tobago.

Professor Bryan, born in Trinidad and Tobago and educated there and in the United States, has spent most of his career at universities and major “think tanks,” and in advising governments, the private sector, and international organizations. He was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He served for a decade as the Director of the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies-St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, where he held the tenured Professorial Chair in International Relations. From 1992 to 2003 he was the director of the Caribbean Studies Program at the North-South Center of the University of Miami. He has been a visiting Professor at Indiana University at Bloomington, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Geneva in Switzerland. He is the author/editor of 10 books, and a large number of journal articles and other publications in the fields of Caribbean/Latin American trade and integration, Caribbean political economy, relations between Latin America and the Caribbean, small state diplomacy, sustainable tourism, regional security issues, and energy security in the Caribbean and Latin America. His most recent publications are on the energy diplomacy of Trinidad and Tobago in Energy Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere (CSIS Press, 2007) and on sustainable Caribbean tourism in No Island is an Island: The Impact of Globalization on the Commonwealth Caribbean (Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2007). Currently (2007) he directs a 5-year major research project on Adapting Border Controls to Support Caribbean Trade and Development, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and being implemented by The University of the West Indies in Trinidad and the Council on Foreign Relations (N.Y); and is a member of the Committee appointed by the Cabinet of Trinidad and Tobago to review the country’s foreign policy.  He earned his PhD in Latin American History from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is bi-lingual (English and Spanish).