Carlos Blanco
Faculty Fellow
Professor of International Relations, Boston University
Education
BA, Universidad Central de Venezuela; MA, Centro de Estudios del Desarrolla; PhD, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Expertise
Governance; Latin American Political Reform and Decentralization; Authoritarianism; Latin American Studies
Biography
Carlos Blanco served as Minister for Reform of the State and President of the Presidential Commission for State Reform in Venezuela. His research and teaching focus on questions of political and institutional developments, with emphasis on Venezuela and Latin America. He works in particular on the impact of leftist regimes in that region.
In addition to his position as a Visiting Professor on International Relations at BU, Blanco is a Professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and a Fellow of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He has been a Research Scholar in the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.
He has been a TV presenter and he founded and directed a weekly political magazine, Primicia. He has also composed weekly articles for newspapers and magazines, and is the author of several books, book chapters and reports for international agencies on the governments and politics of Latin American countries. He also has served as President and Secretary General of the Latin-American Center for Administrative Development (CLAD).
The courses he teaches at BU include Introduction to Latin American Politics and International Relations; Democracy in Latin America; U.S.-Latin American Relations; The Latin American Military; and Reform of the State: Political and Institutional Reforms in Latin America.
