Leftovers: Tales Of The Two Latin American Lefts, Vol. 1

Castañeda is the best known intellectual writing about politics in contemporary Latin America, and he is famous in the U.S. as well. He currently is Professor of Politics at New York University, and from 2000-2003 served as the Mexican foreign minster. He is a regular columnist for the Mexican daily Reforma, The Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek International . Born and raised in Mexico City, Castañeda was educated at Princeton University and the Sorbonne. He received his Ph.D. from the Ecole Pratiquede Hautes Etudes, Paris, in 1978. His academic interests are wide-ranging, including Latin American politics, comparative politics, and U.S.-Latin America relations. He has been a senior associate of the Carnegie Institute for International Peace in Washington and a visiting professor at Princeton, Dartmouth College, and the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught economics and international affairs at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.Marco Morales is a doctoral student in politics at New York University.Castaneda, Jorge is the author of 'Leftovers: Tales Of The Two Latin American Lefts, Vol. 1', published 2008 under ISBN 9780415956703 and ISBN 0415956706.