Patrick Iber
Biographic Data
| ID | 714028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Iber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Iber |
| SIGNATURE | IBER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
El Estado editor en América Latina
How Democracies Fall Apart
The political scientist Adam Przeworski, born in Poland and now professor emeritus at New York University, is one of the most influential thinkers about democracy of the last century. He is the author of many books, including Capitalism and Social Democracy, Paper Stones: A History of Electoral Socialism (with John Sprague), Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America, and Crises of Democracy. In F…
Trump's Deportation Machine
The Trump administration has turned immigrants into a category of undesirables onto which it can project social problems. The official White House X account has released an ASMR video of deportees in shackles. They are establishing camps at Guantánamo and other military bases and sending asylum seekers to countries to which they have no connection. Yet so far the number of deportees isn't much higher than under Obama. So what's going on—and where…
The Public We Need
Working on the foreign policy advisory group for the Bernie Sanders primary campaign in 2019 and 2020 changed the way that I process and think about politics. I saw up close the challenges that candidates face in channeling popular frustrations and demonstrating that they have the ability to address them. they have to bring together multiple majorities: in primaries, the general election, and Congress. They have to create the public that they nee…
How Unions Can Protect Immigrants
In February the labor reporter Luis Feliz Leon published an essay on the n+1 website on unions' varying responses to Trump. We were intrigued by his mention of a members' meeting organized by Faye Guenther, president of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 3000, to discuss immigration and how the union could prepare for the new administration's deportation plans. We spoke to Faye on February 28 about how she confronts divisions within …
A Fractured Coalition
Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. the answers were various. Some people mentioned Gaza. Others said things like, “You are focused on the real issues people care about”; “Trump and you care for the working class”; “I feel like Trump and you are both real”; “Voted Trump but I like you and Bernie.” What do we…
Foundations, US Foreign Policy and Anti-racism in Brazil
In the global reconfiguration of the social sciences that took place after World War II, Brazil occupied a unique place onto which were projected unique hopes. Nazi racial ideology was considered at least a contributing factor to the outbreak of World War II, and scientists who studied race judged Nazi ideas not only evil but also incorrect. Insofar as international organizations, like the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Orga…
Building the Cold War Together
This article discusses efforts by the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to promote non-Communist trade unions in Latin America during the early Cold War. A great deal of scholarship has shed light on the AFL's activities in Europe in support of anti-Communist labor organizations. This article shifts the focus to Latin America, tracing both the similarities and the differences. Although labor unions in Latin America were weaker than those in Euro…
Roberto Bolaño in Context
The Present as a Foreign Country
In recent years, historians have been in increased demand to use their expertise to help understand contemporary events. The forces that are driving news outlets and podcasts to enlist historians for their perspectives on the present are also drawing students into our college classes. This article explores how courses on contemporary US history can use students' desire for historical perspectives on their long now to teach them more broadly about…
J onathan Z immerman and E mily R obertson . The Case for Contention
As a secondary consequence of the financial crisis, most history departments experienced broad declines in enrollment and majors. A study by Benjamin Schmidt, published in late 2018, showed that the number of history majors declined in percentage terms more than any other major he tracked between 2011 and 2017 (“The Humanities Are in Crisis,” Atlantic, August, 2018). Yet at the same time as institutions have struggled to attract students in the s…
Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico
In 2017, more Mexican journalists were killed than in any country other than Iraq and the active war zone of Syria. Reporters without Borders's 2018 rankings for press freedom placed Mexico 147th out of 180 countries—the lowest ranking of any country in Latin America other than Cuba. As the introduction to Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico argues, “Journalism is more dangerous, and consequently more constrained, now than at any other p…
T eishan A. L atner . Cuban Revolution in America
In Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992, author Teishan Latner argues that in the years between 1959 and the decline of the Cold War, no foreign country had such a hold on the imagination of the U.S. left as did Cuba. It became the symbolic global home of world revolution. As Stokely Carmichael put it while speaking in Cuba in 1967, “We look upon Cuba as a shining example of hope in our hemisphere.…
Debating Political Economy
The Cold War Politics of Literature and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores
This article describes the relationship of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, Mexico's most important writing centre in the second half of the twentieth century, to the US foundations that funded it. The Centre was founded by a North American writer, Margaret Shedd, with the financial support of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation understood the Centre as a 'Pan-American' effort to improve relations between the United States an…
Neither Peace nor Freedom
"Who Will Impose Democracy?"
This article examines the life of Sacha Volman (1923–2001), a Romanian exile who became a key conduit for CIA support to Latin America’s anticommunist left during the Cold War. It traces the evolution of the front groups that underwrote his activities, his involvement with institutes for political training and the production of propaganda in Mexico and Costa Rica, and, most importantly, his organizing in support of the short-lived presidency of J…
Managing Mexico's Cold War
This article examines prospects and problems with using Mexican secret police documents to assess Mexico's role in the Cold War. I approach the topic through the life of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, a Mexican labour leader who was once formally recruited as a Soviet intelligence asset. I analyse two documents in depth—an indictment of Lombardo that was likely based on faulty information, and a detailed record of Soviet subsidies to Lombardo's union…
Neither Peace nor Freedom
The Cold War Politics of Literature and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores
This article describes the relationship of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, Mexico's most important writing centre in the second half of the twentieth century, to the US foundations that funded it. The Centre was founded by a North American writer, Margaret Shedd, with the financial support of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation understood the Centre as a 'Pan-American' effort to improve relations between the United States an…
Managing Mexico's Cold War
This article examines prospects and problems with using Mexican secret police documents to assess Mexico's role in the Cold War. I approach the topic through the life of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, a Mexican labour leader who was once formally recruited as a Soviet intelligence asset. I analyse two documents in depth—an indictment of Lombardo that was likely based on faulty information, and a detailed record of Soviet subsidies to Lombardo's union…
Trump's Deportation Machine
The Trump administration has turned immigrants into a category of undesirables onto which it can project social problems. The official White House X account has released an ASMR video of deportees in shackles. They are establishing camps at Guantánamo and other military bases and sending asylum seekers to countries to which they have no connection. Yet so far the number of deportees isn't much higher than under Obama. So what's going on—and where…
A Fractured Coalition
Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. the answers were various. Some people mentioned Gaza. Others said things like, “You are focused on the real issues people care about”; “Trump and you care for the working class”; “I feel like Trump and you are both real”; “Voted Trump but I like you and Bernie.” What do we…
J onathan Z immerman and E mily R obertson . The Case for Contention
As a secondary consequence of the financial crisis, most history departments experienced broad declines in enrollment and majors. A study by Benjamin Schmidt, published in late 2018, showed that the number of history majors declined in percentage terms more than any other major he tracked between 2011 and 2017 (“The Humanities Are in Crisis,” Atlantic, August, 2018). Yet at the same time as institutions have struggled to attract students in the s…
"Who Will Impose Democracy?"
This article examines the life of Sacha Volman (1923–2001), a Romanian exile who became a key conduit for CIA support to Latin America’s anticommunist left during the Cold War. It traces the evolution of the front groups that underwrote his activities, his involvement with institutes for political training and the production of propaganda in Mexico and Costa Rica, and, most importantly, his organizing in support of the short-lived presidency of J…
Managing Mexico's Cold War
This article examines prospects and problems with using Mexican secret police documents to assess Mexico's role in the Cold War. I approach the topic through the life of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, a Mexican labour leader who was once formally recruited as a Soviet intelligence asset. I analyse two documents in depth—an indictment of Lombardo that was likely based on faulty information, and a detailed record of Soviet subsidies to Lombardo's union…
Neither Peace nor Freedom
The Cold War Politics of Literature and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores
This article describes the relationship of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, Mexico's most important writing centre in the second half of the twentieth century, to the US foundations that funded it. The Centre was founded by a North American writer, Margaret Shedd, with the financial support of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation understood the Centre as a 'Pan-American' effort to improve relations between the United States an…
Debating Political Economy
T eishan A. L atner . Cuban Revolution in America
In Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992, author Teishan Latner argues that in the years between 1959 and the decline of the Cold War, no foreign country had such a hold on the imagination of the U.S. left as did Cuba. It became the symbolic global home of world revolution. As Stokely Carmichael put it while speaking in Cuba in 1967, “We look upon Cuba as a shining example of hope in our hemisphere.…
J onathan Z immerman and E mily R obertson . The Case for Contention
As a secondary consequence of the financial crisis, most history departments experienced broad declines in enrollment and majors. A study by Benjamin Schmidt, published in late 2018, showed that the number of history majors declined in percentage terms more than any other major he tracked between 2011 and 2017 (“The Humanities Are in Crisis,” Atlantic, August, 2018). Yet at the same time as institutions have struggled to attract students in the s…
Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico
In 2017, more Mexican journalists were killed than in any country other than Iraq and the active war zone of Syria. Reporters without Borders's 2018 rankings for press freedom placed Mexico 147th out of 180 countries—the lowest ranking of any country in Latin America other than Cuba. As the introduction to Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico argues, “Journalism is more dangerous, and consequently more constrained, now than at any other p…
Roberto Bolaño in Context
The Present as a Foreign Country
In recent years, historians have been in increased demand to use their expertise to help understand contemporary events. The forces that are driving news outlets and podcasts to enlist historians for their perspectives on the present are also drawing students into our college classes. This article explores how courses on contemporary US history can use students' desire for historical perspectives on their long now to teach them more broadly about…
Building the Cold War Together
This article discusses efforts by the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to promote non-Communist trade unions in Latin America during the early Cold War. A great deal of scholarship has shed light on the AFL's activities in Europe in support of anti-Communist labor organizations. This article shifts the focus to Latin America, tracing both the similarities and the differences. Although labor unions in Latin America were weaker than those in Euro…
How Democracies Fall Apart
The political scientist Adam Przeworski, born in Poland and now professor emeritus at New York University, is one of the most influential thinkers about democracy of the last century. He is the author of many books, including Capitalism and Social Democracy, Paper Stones: A History of Electoral Socialism (with John Sprague), Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America, and Crises of Democracy. In F…
Trump's Deportation Machine
The Trump administration has turned immigrants into a category of undesirables onto which it can project social problems. The official White House X account has released an ASMR video of deportees in shackles. They are establishing camps at Guantánamo and other military bases and sending asylum seekers to countries to which they have no connection. Yet so far the number of deportees isn't much higher than under Obama. So what's going on—and where…
The Public We Need
Working on the foreign policy advisory group for the Bernie Sanders primary campaign in 2019 and 2020 changed the way that I process and think about politics. I saw up close the challenges that candidates face in channeling popular frustrations and demonstrating that they have the ability to address them. they have to bring together multiple majorities: in primaries, the general election, and Congress. They have to create the public that they nee…
How Unions Can Protect Immigrants
In February the labor reporter Luis Feliz Leon published an essay on the n+1 website on unions' varying responses to Trump. We were intrigued by his mention of a members' meeting organized by Faye Guenther, president of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 3000, to discuss immigration and how the union could prepare for the new administration's deportation plans. We spoke to Faye on February 28 about how she confronts divisions within …
A Fractured Coalition
Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. the answers were various. Some people mentioned Gaza. Others said things like, “You are focused on the real issues people care about”; “Trump and you care for the working class”; “I feel like Trump and you are both real”; “Voted Trump but I like you and Bernie.” What do we…
Foundations, US Foreign Policy and Anti-racism in Brazil
In the global reconfiguration of the social sciences that took place after World War II, Brazil occupied a unique place onto which were projected unique hopes. Nazi racial ideology was considered at least a contributing factor to the outbreak of World War II, and scientists who studied race judged Nazi ideas not only evil but also incorrect. Insofar as international organizations, like the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Orga…
El Estado editor en América Latina
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