ANDRÉS PÉREZ BALTODANO Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada RAUL BERNAL-MEZA Professor of International Relations at National University of the Centre of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina ERIK BRAND publishes the daily Latin America Advisor at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington DC, USA STEEN FRYBA CHRISTENSEN Associate Professor at Ålborg University, Denmark GUY EDWARDS Research Fellow in the Center for Environmental Studies at Brown University, USA ANNE MARIE EJDESGAARD JEPPESEN Associate Professor and Head of Centre for Latin American Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark DIRK KRUIJT Honorary Professor at Utrecht University, The Netherlands ENRIQUE MENDIZABAL Research Fellow and Program Leader of the Research and Policy in Development and Chair of the Latin America and the Caribbean Group at the Overseas Development Institute, UK PATRICIA OLNEY Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Connecticut State University, USA MANUELOROZCO Senior Associate and Director of Remittances and Development at the Inter?American Dialogue, Washington DC, USA WILLIAM RATLIFF Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, USA MATTHEW SCHEWELJournalist with the Latin America Advisor newsletters at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC, USA THOMAS SHANNON STILES Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Webster University Scott Air Force Base, USA.