Tulchin has been named a Visiting Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin America Studies, at Harvard University. He will be in residence at the Center during the academic year September 2010 to May 2011. While at the Center, he will finish a study of U.S. security relations with Central America and finish the draft of a book on the history of United States relations with Latin America. .
Tulchin is in the middle of fulfilling two consultancies. One is for the National Endowment for Democracy, to evaluate their program of grants in Colombia over the last decade. He visited Colombia at the end of February to interview the grantees. The other is for the Center for Naval Analysis, to provide an overview and analysis of United States security relations with Central America in the past two decades. Both of these consultancies will require extensive written reports, versions of which will be made public at some time in the future by the two contracting organizations.
Tulchin travelled to Argentina and Chile in May, where he gave lectures on United States policy in Latin America. He gave a presentation at the Argentine Council on Foreign Relations (CARI) on how Latin America can respond to the evolving foreign policy of the Obama Administration. In Chile, he addressed the National Institute of Strategic Studies (ANEPE) on Chile’s role in world affairs. He also delivered a lecture at the Foreign Service Institute and participated in a meeting of the Chilean chapter of the project on regional security of the Ebert Foundation, discussing “The United States and Hemispheric Security.” He also lectured to faculty and students at the Institute for International Studies (IEI) of the University of Chile on relations among the ABC countries (Argentina, Brazil, and Chile).
Tulchin continues his work on the task force on Hemispheric Security Issues at the Center for Hemispheric Policy of the University of Miami. Over the past few months, he has participated in the series of workshops on Security Culture in Latin America, organized by the Applied Research Center of Florida International University. For more information on the series, consult the FIU/ARC website. Participation in the workshop consists of a day-long seminar with a group of experts from the United States and Latin America, and a short paper. He is providing access to the texts of his papers here: Nicaraguan Strategic Culture, Argentine Strategic Culture, and Chilean Strategic Culture.
Tulchin is a dynamic lecturer, equally effective with small groups and large. He has lectured on Latin American affairs to age groups stretching from high school students to elderhostel members. He has lectured to groups of corporate executives, military officers, policymakers, and policy analysts. He has appeared frequently on television and radio, in both Spanish and English.
Tulchin has spent twenty years managing projects that deal with research and analysis of Latin America. He is an experienced and highly efficient manager. He is expert in formulating research topics and focusing the effort by a team of specialists to produce a final product of use to a client or a specific policy constituency.
During his extensive academic career, Tulchin taught research methodology and strategic planning. This experience was put to good use during his years as a program manager at the Wilson Center when he defined a research agenda, raised the funds to carry out the research and produced reports and books to bring the results of the research to a wide audience.