My Work: The Go-To Source

Former presidents, college professors, and other scholars have cited Robert’s work in recent years:

  • Authors Robert Jervis, Stacie Goddard and Diane N. Labrosse cited the article “Trump Should Worry About U.S. Unskilled Labor and Stop Blaming Mexico for Job Losses, Official Says,” in their book Chaos Reconsidered: The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics, 2023.
  • Author Jennifer Suzanne Leath cited the article “What Is Net Neutrality? FCC to Roll Back Obama-Era Rule” in her book Black, Quare and Then to Where: Theories of Justice and Black Sexual Ethics, 2023.
  • Author Eliot Dickinson cited the article “Venezuelans Are Losing A Lot of Weight Amid Money Crisis” in his book Human Migration and the Refugee Crisis, 2023.
  • Authors María J. Villaseñor and Hortencia Jiménez cited the interview with then-San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz in their book Latinx Experiences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2023.
  • Author Linda Hanson, EdD, cited the article “Incarcerated Women, the Fastest-Growing Population Behind Bars, Face Unique Challenges” in their book Woman Up!: Finding Equality: Stories of American Women, Newman Springs Publishing, 2022
  • Brown University’s author Lundy Braun cited the article “Jim O’Neil, Trump’s Potential FDA Head, Thinks Drugs Should Be Approved Without Efficacy,” in their journal article Cambridge University Press titled, “Theorizing Race and Racism: Preliminary Reflections on the Medical Curriculum,” on January 6, 2021.
  • Author Miriam Davidson cited the article “Does Central America Need a Marshall Plan?” in her book The Beloved Border: Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land , University of Arizona Press, 2021.
  • The article “Trump Administration’s Bromance with Brazil’s Far-Right President-Elect Is Already Underway,” was cited in the book The Future of U.S. Empire in The Americas: The Trump Administration and Beyond, 2020.
  • Author Andrew McAffee cited the article “Venezuela’s Inflation Rate Passes 1 Million Percent and It’s Costing Lives Every Day. This is What It Looks Like,” in his book The Surprising Story of How We Achieved Greater Growth and Prosperity with Fewer Resources – and How We Are Now Saving our Planet, 2020 (In German).
  • Author Robert J. Hutchinson cited the article “CIA Investigated Whether Hitler Survived World War II and Moved to Colombia” in his book What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler, 2020.
  • Author Dan Werb cited the Newsweek piece “Migrant Caravan: Donald Trump Earns Apparent Support of Mexican Mayor” in his book City of Omens: A Search for Missing Women of the Borderlands, June 2019.
  • Author Pamela Hines cited the Newsweek article “Will Trump Be Impeached? Here’s What We Know About Robert Mueller’s Russia Probe” in her book The Trumping of America: A Wake Up Call to the Free World, 2018.
  • The Congressional Research Service cited the Newsweek article “Should the U.S. Impose an Oil Embargo on Venezuela?” in its piece “Venezuela: Background and U.S. Relations,” June 27, 2018.
  • Author Brian Klaas cited the Newsweek article “Russia Probe: Manafort and Flynn Likely to Face Criminal Charges” in his book The Despot’s Apprentice: Donald Trump’s Attack on Democracy, 2017.
  • Franklin & Marshall College professor Eric Hirsch cited the article “The Andean Tigers” in his piece “Investment’s rituals: ‘Grassroots’ extractivism and the making of an indigenous gold mine in the Peruvian Andes,” Geoforum, Vol. 82, June 2017, pp. 259-267.
  • Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) cited the 2017 Newsweek article “Commerce Secretary Has Links to Venezuela Oil Giant, Despite U.S. Sanctions” in a letter to the Treasury Department, requesting information about Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s undisclosed dealings in the Panama Papers.
  • Authors Axel Klein and Blaine Stothard cited the article “After Mujica: Can Uruguay Maintain Its Progressive Movement?” in their book “Collapse of the Global Order on Drugs,” Emerald Publishing, 2016.
  • Chilean Ministry of National Defense’s Revista Política y Estrategia cited the article “U.S. and China: The Fight for Latin America” in its piece “Global Re-insertion, Repositioning and Re-signification of China” No. 126-2015.
  • Small Wars Journal cited the article “Mexican Drug Cartels Are Not Terrorists” in its piece “Terrorism and Organized Crime: Exploring the Mexican Situation”, October 16, 2015.
  • The University of Toledo Law Review cited the article “Calming Colombia and Nicaragua’s Murky Waters,” 46, No. 3, Spring 2015.
  • Brookings Institution’s Director of Latin America Initiative, Harold Trinkunas, cited the article “State of Affairs: The Nascent Venezuelan-Colombian Relations” in his book “American Crossings: Border Politics in the Western Hemisphere”, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in November 2015.
  • Authors of the book “U.S. Military Operations: Law, Policy, and Practice”, published by Oxford University Press, cited the article “Colombia and FARC: Will the Internal Conflict Reach an End?” in its chapter “Detention Operations: A Strategic View.” Book published in October/December 2015.
  • The Harvard National Security Journal cited the article “Mexican Drug Cartels Are Not Terrorists,” 6, 2015.
  • The Mexican Senate’s Gilberto Bosques Center of International Studies cited the article, “Pacific Alliance: A Promising Yardstick of Latin America’s Prosperity,” in its report “The Pacific Alliance: The Future of Latin American integration?” Published on March 2014.
  • The Brooklyn Journal of International Law cited the article “How the Latin American Press Is Losing Its Voice,” 39, No.2, 2014.
  • The Valparaiso University Law Review cited the article, “How the U.S. War on Drugs Casts a Shadow over Communities of Color,” in its scholarly piece, “The U.S. War on Drugs and Black Men as Non-Citizens,” Volume 47 Number 3, pp. 89-129.
  • The Journal of Hispanic Studies cited the article, “Wikileaks and Latin America,” in its piece, “Artigas and the New Left in Uruguayan Theater,” 2013, pp. 127-149.
  • Global Security Studies cited the article, “The Curious Case of World Court’s Territorial Rulings,” in its piece “Nicaragua v Colombia: A Stalemate in the Caribbean,” 2013, Issue 4.
  • Gale Cengage Learning printed the article, “The Wait Is Over: Congress Awards Free Trade Agreements, Ignoring Workers’ Plight,” for the book Opposing Viewpoints: Free Trade, Greenhaven Press, 2013, Chapter 3, pp.103-108.
  • Former President of Mexico Carlos Salinas de Gortari discussed his position on the war on drugs by citing the article, “War on Drugs: A Pan-Regional Fight,” in his book Democracia Republicana: Ni Estado Ni Mercado, Una Alternativa Ciudadana (“Republican Democracy: A Citizen’s Alternative”), Random House Mondadori, 2010, pg. 826-828.
  • The Journal of Development Studies cited the article, “Colombia and FARC: Will the Civil War Have an End?” in its piece, “The Shape of Corruption: Colombia as a Case Study,” Taylor & Francis, 2013, pp. 1-14.
  • The U.S. Army War College’s report, “In Support of the Common Defense: A Homeland Defense and Security Journal,” cited the article “Mexican Drug Cartels Are Not Terrorists” U.S. Army War College Press, June 2013.
  • Yale Journal of International Law’s article, “Mexico’s Drug ‘War’: Drawing a Line Between Rhetoric and Reality,” cited the piece, “From Montevideo to Washington: A New Dawn for Drug Policy,” Spring 2013.
  • The World Affairs Council of Northern California selected the article “The (Other) Longest War” as part of its 2011 Global Town Hall series to discuss the effects of the war on drugs.
  • The University of Florida’s Institute on United States Foreign Policy selected the article, “After Bin Laden’s Demise, Are U.S. Latin American Relations at Bay?” as part of its 2011 syllabus and recommended reading for its Ph.D. students.
  • In November 2011, UK-based think tank The Henry Jackson Society cited the article, “Congress Awards Free Trade Agreements,” in its report “The Next Phase in American Free Trade: Colombia, Panama, and South Korea.”