Joseph S. Tulchin

Who is Joseph S. Tulchin?

Joe Tulchin is a Latin Americanist with extraordinarily broad experience. He is a widely published research scholar and a successful teacher as well as an effective participant in the public policy process.

He is known throughout the hemisphere for his work on hemispheric security and international affairs, citizen security and police reform, reducing inequality and the governance of cities. He spent 25 years teaching — first at Yale and then at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — and then for 16 years directed a program of public policy research on Latin America, as part of the > Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

He is equally adept at political risk analysis for corporate or private sector clients as he is at public policy analysis for senior government officials or multilateral organizations. While at the Wilson Center, he directed teams of experts who made specific policy proposals to governments in the region to reduce crime and violence, to re-formulate national security policies, and prepared guidelines for the several governments on how to use social policy to reduce inequality. Over the years, Tulchin worked closely with the Organization of American States on hemispheric security, with the World Bank on police reform, and with the United Nations on urban governance. He is currently on the advising board of Social Enterprise Associates and the Hemispheric Security Issues Task Force at the Center for Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miami.

The results of his research have been disseminated widely through publications — more than 60 books and 100 refereed articles or book chapters — through policy bulletins and reports delivered into the hands of decision makers and stakeholders in the policy process, through briefings for senior government officials from Washington to Buenos Aires and Santiago.

Current Research

His current writing projects are:

• a history of United States relations with Latin America.
• the foreign policy of Argentina since the return to democracy in 1983.
• the causes of inequality in Latin America.

He continues to form part of public policy research networks on hemispheric security, crime and violence, and social policy.

Next Speaking Engagement

He will return to Florida International University in June to chair a panel on the Strategic Culture of Peru for the FIU/ARC task force he has been participating on since last fall. See the News page for more information about the project and to access copies of past papers.

Most Recent Publications

• Tulchin was quoted in an article at Time.com about the extradition of Alfonso Portillo from Guatemala to the U.S.
• co-editor of el Rombecabezas a volume examining hemispheric security in the 21st century
• analysis of the Summit of the Americas, in Trinidad, in April 2009, which appeared in the online version of Foreign Policy

click here for highlights of his bibliography, and here for a complete list of publications.

Contact Information

If you would like to discuss a research project, would like him to write an opinion piece, or deliver a speech or participant in a conference, please contact him at joe.tulchin @ gmail.com.