Julia E. Sweig

Julia E. Sweig is a U.S. scholar specializing in Latin America and U.S.-Latin America foreign policy. Previously she was the Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Sweig holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.A. and PhD. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She is on the editorial board of Foreign Affairs en Español. She was born in Chicago.

Books

• Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century (PublicAffairs, 2006) ISBN 1-58648-300-5
• Andes 2020: A New Strategy for the Challenges of Colombia and the Region, A Center for Preventive Action Report (Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2004) ISBN 0-87609-340-3
• Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground (Harvard University Press, 2002) ISBN 0-674-01612-2
• U.S.-Cuban Relations in the 21st Century, A Follow-On Chairman's Report, Report of an Independent Task Force (Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2001) ISBN 0-87609-276-8

External links

• JuliaSweig.com
• Interview: On Friendly Fire, April 27, 2006 Council on Foreign Relations
• "Improving the World's View of America", April 6, 2006 Talk of the Nation NPR
• "Anti-U.S. Trend Among South American Leaders", December 20, 2005 Day to Day NPR
• "Viva el Llano!", August 21, 2002 The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC
• Video of conversation with Sweig on Bloggingheads.tv
• Council Fellow Julia Sweig Debunks the Mythology Surrounding the Birth of the Cuban Revolution
• A Reform Moment in Cuba? by Julia E. Sweig, Council on Foreign Relations, July 8, 2010