Professor Dunkerley received his DPhil from Oxford University. He specialises in Latin American politics and modern history. Dunkerley is the author of "The Long War: Dictatorship and Revolution in El Salvador" (1982), "Rebellion in the Veins: Political Struggle in Bolivia, 1952-1982" (1984), "Power in the Isthmus: a Political History of Modern Central America" (1988), "Origenes del Poder Militar: Historia del Ejercito Boliviano" (1988), "Political Suicide in Latin America" (1992), "The Pacification of Central America" (1994), and "Americana: The Americas in the World Around 1850" (2000). He has also edited two books "Brazil Since 1985 Economy, Polity and Society" (2003) and "Studies in the Formation of the Nation-State in Latin America" (2002). Dr. Dunkerley heads the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London.