Dealing with Dictators: Forty Years of Frustration

The Center for the Study of the Americas welcomes Fulbright Professor Richard Millett with an inaugural lecture followed by a reception

Richard Millett says of his lecture: “I plan to discuss the lessons learned and the problems encountered in over forty years of studying, writing about, and at times having policy involvement with various dictatorships, largely though not exclusively in Latin America. While I have only known two, Anastasio Somoza Debayle of Nicaragua and Manuel Antonio Noriega of Panama, I have known the associates and victims of many others and have experienced both the reality and aftermath of their reigns. In the process I have learned the very real constraints on their power as well as the difficulties of both domestic and foreign opposition in trying to remove them. In conclusion I will attempt to find some lessons for the present and future.”

The Center for the Study of the Americas has been granted a three-year Fulbright Chair and is delighted to welcome the first to fill the seat, Professor Richard Millett, from the University of Southern Illinois, who will be based at the Center for the academic year 2007-08.

Followed by a reception in the Faculty Club

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The Center for the Study of the Americas

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