ILAS publishes a series of working papers by Columbia faculty and graduate students, and distinguished visiting scholars and professors. Printed copies of all papers can be obtained from the Institute for a fee of US$5.00. Please call the ILAS Administrator at 212-854-5468 or visit our offices on the 8th floor of the International Affairs Building at Columbia University if you would like to purchase a paper. Papers published in recent years have been put online and can be downloaded from this site.  

Presentations at ILAS

Alejandro Castellanos, O’Gorman Visiting Scholar. Ecological Consequences of Land Use Change in the Sonoran Desert (January, 2007).

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Tinker Visiting Professor. Not Black, Not White: Just the Opposite: Culture and Racial and National Identity in Brazil (February 2008).
 
Jose Antonio Ocampo. La Macroeconomia De La Bonanza Economica (Revista de la CEPAL, December 2007).

Annette Hester and Jean Paul Prates. The Energy Sector in Brazil: Lessons in Ingenuity and Compromise.

Brodwyn Fischer, Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth
Century Rio de Janeiro
(May 2008).

Articles

Thomas J. Trebat, ILAS Executive Director. Latin America’s Quiet Rise (February 2008).

Francisco Rodriguez, An Empty Revolution: The Unfulfilled Promises of Hugo Chávez (Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008).

Francisco Rodriguez, et al, The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela’s Maisanta (March 2008).

Francisco Rodriguez and Daniel Ortega, Freed from Illiteracy? A Closer Look at Venezuela’s Robinson Literarcy Campaign (October 2006).

Margarita López Maya, Venezuela: ascenso y gobierno de Hugo Chávez y sus fuerzas bolivarianas (Marzo 2008).