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CONTRIBUTORS Orlando J. Pirez is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Central Michigan University, where he teaches courses in Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, and U.S.-Latin American Relations. He has carried out field research in several countries of the region, including Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Venezuela. As a consultant, he has worked on public opinion surveys, democratization, civil-military relations, and corruption issues for USAID and the UN Development Program. His work has appeared in the Jozwnnl of Interamerican Studies and WorldAffairs, Hemisphere, South Eastern Latin Americanist, and Political Science Qzrarter[v (forthcoming), chapters in edited volumes. He is the editor of Post-hasion Panama: The Challenges ofDernocr-atizationin the New WorldOrder. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh. Willianz L. Firrlong is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Utah State University (USU). His teaching interests include: Latin American politics, U.S.-Latin American relations, U.S. Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics, and International Relations. He has received four senior Fulbright Lectureships to Costa Rica, Panama, and the Dominican Republic; and has taught several special workshops and lectured for USIA in over ten Latin American countries. He was awarded USU’s Professor of the Year in 1984, and since has been the HASS College Researcher of the Year and Advisor of the Year. He is the author of two books, and co-author of three. He has published several articles and chapters in books on Latin American politics and on U.S.-Latin American relations. hfarco A. Gandusegtri, h. is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Panama. He is executive director of the C‘entrode L+flldios Latinoamericarios (CELA) “JirstoAro.smzena’’ in Panama. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Binghamton. 1-k has written extensively on Panamanian social and political issues. lle has published several books including, Las clases sociules en Panuma, 2002, CELA; La deinocracia en Panumu, 1999, CELA; El Canal 0%.Paiiamd en el ~igloxH, (ed.) 1998;Lus clasessociales en Punarna, CELA, 1993. Giiillermo Castro H. has a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from the Univevsidad Nacional Aiitdnoma de Mexico. He has published Politica y Ciiltiira en Nitestm Amdr-ica, 1880-1 930 (CELA, I 985), and Natirraleza y Sociedud en lu Historia de America Latina (CELA, 1995). tle is the Academic Program Manager at the City of Knowledge Foundation, and teaches the course on Environmental Sociology at the MA in Sociology for Environmental Management offered by the University of Panama. Peter M. Sanchez (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1989) is associate professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. His principal research interests include democratization and US-Latin American relations. 1Ie has published articles in International Politics, Jouvnal of' Developing Areas, Harvard Joiirnul ofHispanic Policy,Peace Review, and PS: Political Science and Politics. He has also contributed chapters in several edited volumes. Dr. Sanchez is currently working on a book-length manuscript titled, Panama Lost? US Hegetnony, Istl?tnianDemocvacy and the Canal in the Twenty-fiist Centziiy. ...

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