Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies
U.S.-Latin America policy; Brazil; Cuba; Anti-Americanism
Julia E. Sweig is the Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies and director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Dr. Sweig also directs CFR's Global Brazil Initiative and Cuba in the Twenty-First Century program.
She is the author of Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century (PublicAffairs, 2006), as well as numerous publications on Latin America and American foreign policy. Dr. Sweig's Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground (Harvard University Press, 2002) received the American Historical Association's Herbert Feis Award for best book of the year by an independent scholar. Dr. Sweig has overseen numerous CFR reports on Latin America: she was director for the Independent Task Force on Brazil (2011), senior adviser for the Independent Task Force on Latin America (2008), and director for the Independent Task Forces on the Andean region (2004) and Cuba (2001).
Dr. Sweig serves on the international advisory board of the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) and on the editorial board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica. She was the Sol M. Linowitz professor of international relations, Hamilton College in 2011, and, from 1999 to 2008, served as a consultant on Latin American affairs for the Aspen Institute's Congressional Program. She frequently provides commentary for the major television, radio, and print media, speaking in both English and Spanish.
She holds a BA from the University of California and an MA and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Selected Publications:
"A New Global Player: Brazil's Far-Flung Agenda," Foreign Affairs (November/December 2010); "The Hemispheric Divide," The National Interest (March/April 2009); Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2009), Second edition (2012); "Fidel's Final Victory," Foreign Affairs (January/February 2007); Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century (PublicAffairs, 2006); "What Kind of War for Colombia?" Foreign Affairs (September/October 2002); Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground (Harvard University Press, 2002)
Languages:
Spanish (fluent); Portuguese (familiar)
Honors:
Outstanding Alumni Achievement, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2011; Herbert Feis Award for Best Book of the Year for Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground, American Historical Association, 2003
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| David Herrero |
Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert asks Dr. Julia Sweig about U.S.-Cuban relations.
Dr. Julia Sweig offers commentary as part of a panel on "Cuba: the Politics of Transition," at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC.
Dr. Julia Sweig was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award of 2011 by the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Dr. Julia Sweig was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award of 2011 by the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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