Robert Matthews
Associate Fellow, FRIDE
Peace, Security & Human Rights
Robert Matthews holds a Ph.D in Latin American history from New York University, where he was a teacher at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. For twenty years was a collaborator with the Peace Research Center – Centro de Investigación para la Paz (CIP) – in Madrid, specializing in United States foreign policy.
For many years he was adjunct professor at the Graduate Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University and chair of the history department at the Fieldston School.
He has written about nineteenth social movements in Latin America, U.S. relations with Latin America and with the developing world in general, U.S. involvement in low-intensity conflicts during the cold war, and recently the U.S. global war on terrorism, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and conflicts with Venezuela, Iran and North Korea.
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Expert in
Spoken languages
English, Spanish
Written languages
English, Spanish
Expert publications
- 07/10/2008 - The responsibility to contribute
- 01/08/2008 - Afghanistan, the limits of counter-insurgency
- 21/03/2007 - Military and Aid Responses: the Afghan Dilemma - Response to Astri Suhrke and Juan Garrigues
