Dr. Walter Vanderbush
Department Profile
Teaching Interests:
- Latin American Politics
- U.S.-Latin American Relations
- North American Politics
- Political Economy
- Comparative Politics
Research Interests:
- U.S.-Latin American Relations
- Latin American Political Economy
- Latin American Foreign Policy
- U.S. Foreign Policy
"The Bush Administration Record in Latin America: Sins of Omission and Commission." New Political Science 31.3 (2009): 337-359.
"Exiles and the Marketing of U.S. Policy toward Cuba and Iraq." Foreign Policy Analysis 5.3 (2009): 287-306.
"The Helms-Burton Act: Congress and Cuba Policy". in Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Trade to Terrorism (3rd ed.). Ralph G. Carter (ed.). CQ Press, 2008: 67-84. (with Patrick Haney)
"Intermestic Interests and U.S. Policy Toward Cuba." in Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence (5th ed.). Eugene R. Wittkopf and James M. McCormick (eds.). Rowman and Littlefield, 2007: 65-80. (with Philip Brenner and Patrick Haney)
"Clinton's Other Infidelity: Signing and Ignoring Helms-Burton." in Executing the Constitution: Putting the President Back into the Constitution. Christopher Kelley (ed.). SUNY-Albany Press, 2006: 219-238. (with Maureen Haney and Patrick Haney)
The Cuban Embargo: The Domestic Politics of an American Foreign Policy. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. (with Patrick Haney)
"Clinton, Congress, and Cuba Policy between two Codifications: The Changing Executive-Legislative Relationship in Foreign Policy Making." Congress & the Presidency 29.2 (2002): 171-194. (with Patrick Haney)
"Assessing Democracy in Puebla, Mexico: The Opposition Takes Charge of Municipal Government." Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 41.2 (1999): 1-27.
"Policy Toward Cuba in the Clinton Administration." Political Science Quarterly 114.3 (1999): 387-408. (with Patrick Haney)
"The Role of Ethnic Interest Groups in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Case of the Cuban American National Foundation." International Studies Quarterly 43.2 (1999): 341-361. (with Patrick Haney)
Walt Vanderbush is currently doing research in the area of Latin American foreign policies. One article project deals with the effectiveness of the Chavez foreign policy in Venezuela, and the second looks at Cuban foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. Working with co-author, Melanie Ziegler, Vanderbush is also at the early stages of a book manuscript covering Caribbean Politics.
Contact Info
Dr. Patrick Haney
Interim Chair
218 Harrison Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
E: political@miamioh.edu
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