Leslie Elliott Armijo

LESLIE ELLIOTT ARMIJO

Curriculum Vitae — June 2024

Email: leslie.armijo@gmail.com

www.lesliearmijo.org

Professional Employment

Simon Fraser University, School for International Studies, Term Associate Professor, then Adjunct Research Professor, Fall 2015-Present

Boston University, Center for Global Development, GEGI, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, March 2022-Present

Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), International Relations Institute, Visiting Professor, 2015

American University, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies (CLALS), Non-Resident Fellow, 2012-2015

Portland State University, Mark O. Hatfield School, Visiting Scholar, 2006-2014

Freie Universität Berlin, Lateinamerika-Institut/Desigualdades Project, Visiting Fellow, Fall 2011

Reed College, Department of Political Science, Visiting Associate Professor or Visiting Scholar, 1999-2001, 2003-2005

Lewis & Clark College, Visiting Associate Professor, 2002-2003

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Visiting Faculty, Summer 2001

Northeastern University, Assistant Professor, 1989-1998

Education

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, May 1989 (Political Science/ International Relations)

M.A. University of California, Berkeley, December 1980 (Political Science)

B.A. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May 1978 (Government), with Distinction in all subjects

Research/Teaching

International Relations/International Public Policy

Development/Political Economy of Finance/Democracy and Markets

Brazil/South America/India/Emerging Powers & the BRICS

PUBLICATIONS

Current Projects

(Article manuscript) “Norms and Troubled Sovereign Debt” (w/ Prateek Sood). In progress.

Books and Edited Collections

South American Policy Regionalism: Drivers and Barriers to International Problem Solving (Ed. w/ Markus Fraundorfer and Sybil D. Rhodes). New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2024.

The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft. (with Cynthia A. Roberts and Saori N. Katada). New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging Economies Survived the Global Financial Crisis (ed. with Carol Wise and Saori N. Katada). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2015.

The Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers: Shield and Sword in Asia and Latin America (ed. with Saori N. Katada). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Special Issue on “The BRIC Countries” (ed.). Asian Perspective, 31:4, December, 2007.

Debating the Global Financial Architecture (ed.).  Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2001.

Financial Globalization and Democracy in Emerging Markets (ed.). New York: Palgrave, 1999.

Conversations about Democratization and Economic Reform: Working Papers of the Southern California Seminar (ed.). Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Center for International Studies, 1995.

Journal Articles

“Voice at the Point of Sovereign Default.” (w/ P. Sood), Roundtable on Sovereign Debt, Ethics and International Affairs, 37:1, March 13 2023.

“Regionalism, Multilateralism, and Sovereign Debt: Observations from a Latin Americanist,” Special Collection on the Future of Multilateralism and Global Development, Eds., J.P. Singh and Michael Woolcock, Global Perspectives, 4 (1): 57547, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2023.57547

“The Political Economy of Development Finance in Latin America.”Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. New York: Oxford University Press., 2020.  https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1520

“The Monetary and Financial Powers of States: Theory, Dataset, and Observations on the Trajectory of American Dominance” (with Daniel C. Tirone and Hyoung-kyu Chey). 2019. New Political Economy. DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2019.1574293

“Explaining Infrastructure Underperformance in Brazil: Cash, Political Institutions, Corruption, and Policy Gestalts” (with Sybil Rhodes). Policy Studies, 38:3, 2017, pp. 231-247.

“Can International Relations and Comparative Politics be Policy Relevant? Theory and Methods for Incorporating Political Context” (with Sybil Rhodes). Politics & Policy, 43:5, 2015, October.

“Theorizing the Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers,” (with Saori N. Katada). New Political Economy, 12:1, January 2014, pp. 42-62.

“The Systemic Financial Importance of Emerging Powers” (with Laurissa Muehlich and Daniel Tirone). Journal of Policy Modeling, 36, Supplement 1, 2014, pp. S67-S88.

“Equality and Regional Finance in the Americas,” Latin American Politics and Society, 55:4, Winter 2013, pp. 95-118.

“Brazil: The Entrepreneurial and Democratic BRIC” (with Sean Burges). Special issue on the BRICs, edited by Cynthia A. Roberts. Polity, 42:1, January 2010, pp. 14-37.

“Two Dimensions of Democracy and the Economy.” (with Carlos Gervasoni). Democratization, 17:1, February 2010, pp. 143-174.

“Policy Responses to Globalization: Damned if You Do, Worse if You Don’t,” Review Article, Latin American Research Review, 43:3, 2008, pp. 259-267.

“Does Democratization Alter the Policy Process? Trade Policymaking in Brazil” (with Christine A. Kearney). Democratization, 15:5, December 2008, pp. 991-1017.

“Leadership, Responsibility, Perhaps Democracy: New Thinking about Latin American Development,” Review Essay, Latin American Research Review, 42:2, 2007.

“The BRICs Countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) as Analytical Category: Insight or Mirage?” Asian Perspective, 31:4, December 2007, pp. 1-42.

“Brazil: To Be or Not to Be a BRIC?” (with Paulo Sotero). Asian Perspective, 31:4, December 2007, pp. 43-70.

“Compared to What? Assessing Brazilian Political Institutions” (with Philippe Faucher and Magdelena Dembinska). Comparative Political Studies, 39:6, August 2006, pp. 759-786.

“Mass Democracy: The Real Reason that Brazil Ended Inflation?,” World Development, 33:12, December 2005, pp. 2013-2028.

“Lamenting Weak Governance: Views on Global Finance,” Review Essay, International Studies Review, 6:3, 2004, pp. 447-452.

“Crises cambiais e estrutura decisória: a política de recuperação econômica na Argentina e no Brasil” (with Philippe Faucher). Dados (Rio de Janeiro) 47:2, 2004, pp. 297-334.

“Le rôle des institutions politiques dans les crises financières de l’Argentine et du Brésil” (with Philippe Faucher). Revue Tiers Monde (Paris), XLV: 178, April-June 2004, pp. 387-418.

“‘We Have a Consensus’: Explaining Political Support for Market Reforms in Latin America” (with Philippe Faucher). Latin American Politics and Society, 44:2, 2002, pp. 1-40.

“The Political Geography of World Financial Reform: Who Wants What and Why?,” Global Governance, Special issue on the Global Financial Architecture, edited by Susanne Soderberg, 7:4, 2001.

“Center-State Relations in India and Brazil: Privatization of Electricity and Banking” (with Prem Shankar Jha). Revista de Economia Política (São Paulo), July/November, 1997.

“Inflation and Insouciance: The Peculiar Brazilian Game,” Latin American Research Review, 31:3, Fall 1996, 7-46.

“Menem’s Mania? The Timing of Argentine Privatization,” Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas, 1:1, 1994, pp. 1-28.

“The Problems of Simultaneous Transitions” (with T.J. Biersteker and A.F. Lowenthal). Journal of Democracy, 5:4, October 1994, pp. 161-175.

“The Resurgence of Political Democracy in Contemporary Latin America The Resurgence of Political Democracy in Contemporary Latin America,” India International Centre Quarterly (New Delhi), 17:2, Monsoon Issue, 1990, pp. 135-150.

Book Chapters

“International Financial Statecraft: How, Who, and with What Expectations of Success.” In Between Subordination and Statecraft: State, Capitalism, and Finance in Emerging Markets, edited by Andreas Nölke and Johannes Petry. Bristol: Bristol University Press, forthcoming 2024.

“Latin American Foreign Policy in an Age of Transition,” in C. Fortín, C. Ominami, and J. Heine, eds. Latin American Foreign Policies in the New World Order: The Active Non-Alignment Option. London: Anthem Press, 2021.

“Financial Statecraft.” In Timothy Shaw, Laura Mahrenbach, Craig Murphy, Renu Modi, and Xu Yi-Chong, eds. 2019. The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan

“Brazil as a Global Player.” In Peter Burnell, Victoria Randall, and Lise Rakner, eds. Politics in the Developing World, 5th ed. London: Oxford University Press, 2017.

“The Public Bank Trilemma: The BNDES and Brazil’s New Developmentalism.” In Peter Kingstone and Timothy Power, eds., Democratic Brazil Divided. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017, pp. 230-247.

“The Puzzle” and “Lessons from the Country Case Studies” (both with Carol Wise and Saori N. Katada). In C. Wise, L.E. Armijo, and S.N. Katada, eds., Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging Economies Survived the Global Financial Crisis. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2015.

“New Kids on the Block: Rising Multipolarity, More Financial Statecraft” and “The Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers: How, Why, and So What?” (both with Saori N. Katada), and “Brave New World? Politics of International Finance in Brazil and India” (with John Echeverri-Gent). In L.E. Armijo and S.N. Katada, eds., The Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers: Shield and Sword in Asia and Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

“Absolute or Relative Gains? How Status Quo and Emerging Powers Conceptualize Global Finance” (with John Echeverri-Gent). In Thomas Oatley and William Winecoft, eds. Handbook of International Monetary Relations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2014, pp. 144-165.

“The Emerging Powers and Global Governance: Why the BRICS Matter” (with Cynthia Roberts). In Robert Looney, ed. Handbook of Emerging Economies. New York: Routledge, 2014, pp. 503-524.

“Regional Integration: Political Uses of Energy Policy” (with Christine A. Gustafson). In Maurício Font and Laura Randall, eds., The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda. (Lanham and New York: Lexington, 2011).

“Who’s Afraid of Economic Populism? Counter-Intuitive Observations on Democracy and Brazilian Political Economy.” In Lourdes Sola and Laurence Whitehead, eds., Statecrafting Monetary Reform: Democracy and Financial Order in Brazil. (Oxford: Centre for Brazilian Studies, Oxford University, Fall 2005).

“The Terms of the Debate [on International Financial Architecture]: What’s Democracy Got to Do with It?.” In Leslie Elliott Armijo, ed. Debating the Global Financial Architecture. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2001, pp. 2-62).

“Mixed Blessing – Expectations about Foreign Capital and Democracy in Emerging Markets,” and “Mixed Blessing – Preliminary Conclusions.” In L. E. Armijo, ed. Financial Globalization and Democracy in Emerging Markets. (New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s, 1999, pp. 17-50, 309-335).

“Balance Sheet or Ballot Box? Incentives to Privatize in Emerging Democracies,” in Philip Oxhorn and Pamela Starr, eds., The Problematic Relationship between Economic and Political Liberalization. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999.)

“India: Democratic Integrity and Financial Molasses.” In R. Bingham and E. W. Hill, eds., Government and Business Finance: Global Perspectives on Economic Development. (Newark: CUPR Press of Rutgers University, 1997).

“Business Finance in Brazil, the Land of ‘Super-Inflation.'” In R. Bingham and E. W. Hill, eds., Government and Business Finance: Global Perspectives on Economic Development. (Newark: CUPR Press of Rutgers University, 1997).

“Brazilian Politics and Patterns of Financial Regulation, 1950-1991,” in S. Haggard, C. Lee, and S. Maxfield, eds., The Politics of Finance in Developing Countries. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993, pp. 259-90).

Book Reviews

Review of The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era, by Margarita Fajardo (Harvard University Press, 2022) for Business History Review, 2022.

Review of Undermining American Hegemony: Goods Substitution in World Politics, edited by Morten Skumsrud Andersen, Alexander Cooley, and Daniel H. Nexon (Cambridge University Press, 2021), for Perspectives on Politics, 20:3, September 2022, pp. 1156-1158.

Review of Rising Powers & Foreign Policy Revisionism: Understanding BRICS Identity and Behavior Through Time Perspectives on Politics, by Cameron G. Thies & Mark David Nieman (University of Michigan Press, 2017) for Perspectives on Politics 17;1, March 2019, pp 299-301.

Review of After Neoliberalism? The Left and Economic Reforms in Latin America, by Gustavo A. Flores-Macías (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Creative Destruction? Economic Crises and Democracy in Latin America, by Francisco E. González (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), for Perspectives on Politics 11:3, 2013, pp. 975-977.

Review of The Financing of Politics: Latin American and European Perspectives, edited by Eduardo Posada-Carbó and Carlos Malamud (Brookings Institution Press, 2005), for Perspectives on Politics 5:3, June 2007, pp. 393-394.

Other Publications (Working papers, translations, shorter encyclopedia entries, opinion pieces)

“The Geopolitics of Latin America’s Regional Development Banks,” with Verónica Rubio Vega Sepehr. GEGI Working Paper #63, Boston: Boston University Global Development Policy Center, June.

“The Varieties of Collective Financial Statecraft: The BRICS and China,” with S. Katada and C. Roberts, in China in a World of Great Power Competition, eds. A. Scobell and J. Staats. New York: Academy of Political Science, 2023. Article reprinted in collection.

“La política exterior latinoamericana en una era de transición,” in Carlos Fortin, Jorge Heine y Carlos Ominami, eds. El No Alineamiento Activo y América Latina: Una doctrina para el nuevo siglo. Santiago, Chile: Catalonia, 2020.

Chinese edition, with a new preface, of The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft. (Manuscript completed accepted by publisher mid-2020, on indefinite hold per Chinese authorities).

“Structure or Agency? Japan’s Leadership Options through an Outsider’s Eyes,” in Yves Tiberghien, ed. Japan’s Leadership in the Liberal International Order: Impact and Policy Opportunities for Partners. Vancouver: UBC, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, July 2020. https://sppga.ubc.ca/news/japans-leadership-in-the-liberal-international-order-impact-and-policy-opportunities-for-partners/

“Regionalism in the Time of Coronavirus: The Only Way Forward?” AULA Blog, American University Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, April 30, 2020.

Resultados Inesperados: cómo las economías emergentes sobrevivieron la crisis financiera global. (Ed. with Carol Wise and Saori N. Katada). Lima: Universidad del Pacífico. [Spanish translation of English book, 2019.]

“South America: Can it Navigate the Changes Ahead?” AULA Blog, American University Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, March 18, 2019.

“Financial Statecraft: No Longer Limited to the Incumbent Powers,” Simons Papers in Security and Development, No. 62/2018, Vancouver, BC: School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, January 2018.

“La elusiva búsqueda del ‘cresimiento verde’: Las relaciones internacionales y la cooperación ambiental en el hemisferio occidental,” (with Sybil Rhodes). Revista UCEMA, 24, April 2014, pp. 16-19.

“Brazilian Leadership and the Global Internet,” with Sybil D. Rhodes, American University Latin America blog, April 28, 2014. <www.aulablog.net>

Expert participant in online forum on “Financial Statecraft and Currency Power,” at the International Relations and Security Network, March 10-13, 2014. http://isn.ethz.ch/Dossiers/Detail/?lng=en&id=177473&contextid782=177473

“Equality and Multilateral Financial Cooperation in the Americas,” Working Paper, Lateinamerika-Ins, Freie Universität Berlin, 2012, at <www.desigualdades.edu>

“Monetary Relations,” in B. Badie, D. Berg-Schlosser, and L Morlino, eds., International Encyclopedia of Political Science. (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Reference, 2011).

“New International Financial Architecture,” in R.J. Barry Jones, ed., Encyclopedia of International Political Economy. (London: Routledge, 2001).

“Tradeoffs Implicit in Sequencing Democracy and Economic Reform,” in Leslie Elliott Armijo, ed., Conversations about Democratization and Economic Reform: Working Papers of the Southern California Seminar. (Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Center for International Studies, 1995).

Theses

“Public Policy in a Semi-Autonomous State: The Political Economy of Brazil’s Financial Modernization, 1950 to 1987” (J. Das Gupta, D. Collier, A. Fishlow), Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1989.

“Disrupting Rural Productive Structures: Land Reform in the USSR, Mexico, Taiwan, and Tanzania” (J. Das Gupta), M.A. Essay, University of California, Berkeley, 1983.

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS (recent only)

Invited Speaker, Colloquia and Small Workshops

“Charting Paths to Prosperity: A China-Brazil Roundtable,” History Lab, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, June 14, 2024.

“New World Disorder: Will Emerging Powers Challenge the Global Order?” 62nd Annual International Affairs Symposium, Lewis & Clark College, April 8-10, 2024.

“Orchestrating Governance: Can South America Provide Regional Public Goods?” Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Department of Political Science and International Relations Institute (virtual), October 29, 2022.

Invited discussant, webinar book launch: Paulo Nogueira Batista, The BRICS and the Financing Mechanisms They Created, Global Development Policy Center, Boston University, October 28, 2021.

Invited discussant, webinar book launch: Matthew M. Taylor, Decadent Development: The Political Economy of Brazil, 1985-2018. Brazil Institute, Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., February 24.

“Lessons for Latin America from the BRICS.” Workshop on Latin America in the Liberal World Order, Cosponsored by Johns Hopkins and American Universities, Baltimore, November 14-15, 2019.

“Theorizing Patient Capital in Middle-Income Countries.” Workshop on Patient Capital in Emerging Economies, Kings College London, November 13, 2019.

“Middle Powers in the Context of Major Power Trade Conflict.” MIKTA Forum, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 18, 2019.

“Global Politics in a Multipolar World: Lessons for Middle Powers from the BRICS.” Global Fridays Lecture Series, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, October 11, 2019.

“Theorizing Patient Capital in Middle-Income Countries.” At Workshop on Law & Development: New Institutional Approaches from the Global South, Faculties of Law of FGV/SP and Univ of São Paulo (USP) & World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR), São Paulo, Brazil, August 4-6, 2019.

“North American Trade Relations: Implications for China.” At “2019 Global Free Trade Media Forum,” Sanya, Hainan, PRC, April 25-26, 2019.

“No Free Lunch: Sourcing Patient Capital in Brazil, India, Pakistan, and Argentina.” 3^rd International Symposium on Development and Governance in the BRICS, FGV São Paulo School of Management (FGV/EAESP), Brazil (cosponsored w/ Fudan University, PRC) December 4-6, 2018.

“Collective Statecraft: China, India, and the BRICS.” Jack Austin Centre for Asian Business, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, March 23, 2018.

“Brazil’s Current Crisis: Despair, Hope, and Reforms?” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BRASA Colloquium, March 15, 2018.

Major Academic Conferences, Paper Presentations

American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington, D.C., August 29 – Sept 1, 2019.

Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA); Canadian Assn for the Study of International Development (CASID). Vancouver, June 5-7, 2019.

Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Boston, May 24-27, 2019.

International Studies Association (ISA), Toronto, March 28-31, 2019.

International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco, April 4-7, 2018.

SPECIAL SKILLS

Languages

Portuguese, Spanish

Other

Field research: Brazil, India

Economics: Macro, International, Development

Professional Memberships

American Political Science Association (APSA); Latin American Studies Association (LASA); Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association (LACEA); International Studies Association (ISA); International Political Science Association (IPSA); Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)

REFERENCES (alphabetical)

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, and former Minister of Finance, Brazil; bresserpereira@gmail.com

David Collier, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; dcollier@socrates.berkeley.edu

Alexander Dawson, Associate Professor of History, State University of New York, Albany; asdawson@albany.edu

John Echeverri-Gent, Associate Professor of Government, University of Virginia; jee8p@eservices.virginia.edu

Philippe Faucher, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Latin American Politics, University of Montreal; philippe.faucher@umontreal.ca

Eric Hershberg, Professor Emeritus & Director Emeritus, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University; hershber@american.edu

Saori Katada, Professor of International Relations; Director, Ph.D. Program in Politics and International Relations; University of Southern California; skatada@usc.edu

Peter Kingstone, Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences; Montclair State University; Montclair, NJ; peterkingstone64@gmail.com

Lourdes Sola, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of São Paulo, Brazil; and Past President, International Political Science Association; loursola@gmail.com