With the support of the Ford Foundation (Santiago, Chile) research is ongoing for a comprehensive bibliography on U.S. regional security policy and its impact on democratization, human rights, and development in the Andean region since 1989. The bibliography and related gateway links includes materials on narcotrafficking, insurgency, counterinsurgency, paramilitaries, mercenaries, terrorism, political violence, internal displacement and institutional reform in the Andean region since the mid-1980s. It also features material on U.S. security policy in the Andean region and human rights. (This link takes you to our gateway site for Research Resources on Human Rights in Latin America, including Colombia and other Andean countries).

In addition a research monograph is under preparation by the principal investigator on U.S. regional security policy in the Andean region since 1989, with particular emphasis on Colombia. This work is scheduled for completion in early 2008.

In November 2002, participants in this project presented papers on U.S. security policy in the Andean region at a conference in San Diego, California. In March 2003, seven participants in the project organized a panel at the meetings of the Latin American Studies Association in Dallas, Texas. Ongoing discussion among the project participants has produced an edited book which is scheduled for publication in August 2006: Addicted to Failure. U.S. Security Policy in Latin America and the Andean Region (Rowman and Littlefield).

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