The Ambassador

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Jorge Heine

Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) in Johannesburg, and a member of the International Board of Governors of the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) of the University of Waterloo, Canada, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Chilean Council of Foreign Relations and of the Editorial Boards of the journals Estudios Internacionales, Perspectivas : Política, Economía y Gestión and Lateinamerika Analysen. He is past president of the Caribbean Studies Association (1990-1991), the Chilean Political Science Association (2002-2003) and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association (2003-2006).

He is the author, co-author or editor of eight books, including Looking Sideways : The Specifics of South-South Co-operation (South African Institute of International Affairs, 1998); The Last Cacique : Leadership and Politics in a Puerto Rican City (Pittsburgh University Press, 1993; Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book, 1994); Enfrentando los cambios globales: Anuario de Políticas Exteriores de América Latina 1991-1992 (Dolmen, 1993); A Revolution Aborted : The Lessons of Grenada (Pittsburgh University Press, 1990, 1991); The Caribbean and World Politics:Cross Currents and Cleavages (with Leslie Manigat; Holmes & Meier, 1988); The Puerto Rican Question (with Juan M. García Passalacqua; Foreign Policy Association, 1983); and Time for Decision : The United States and Puerto Rico (North - South, 1983). His articles have been published in newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune and The Miami Herald and he is the author of over fifty book chapters in symposium volumes and articles published in journals like PS : Political Science and Politics, The Wilson Quarterly, Caribbean Review, Revista de Ciencia Política, Estudios Internacionales, Cono Sur and Transafrica Forum.

Jorge Heine was born in Santiago, Chile in 1948. After attending Santiago’s German School, he graduated from the University of Chile Law School in 1972 and did graduate studies in Political Science at York University in England, where he received a B.Phil. in Modern Political Analysis and at Stanford University in California, where he received an M.A. and a PHD.