Sir James Chadwick Dunkerley OBE is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and the former Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of London. He has written extensively on Bolivia, Central America, and elsewhere in Latin America and was the editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies. Further, he has been on the editorial boards of Government and Opposition and Norteamérica. He has served as Andrés Bello Professor of Latin American Culture and Civilization at New York University and is a Fellow of the Academy Social Sciences and the Royal Historical Society.
