J. PATRICE MCSHERRY

BOOKS

THE IRAQ PAPERS, by John Ehrenberg, J. Patrice McSherry, José Ramón Sánchez, and Caroleen Marji Sayej , eds., Oxford University Press, 2010.
The authoritative work on the origins, execution, and consequences of the invasion and war in Iraq.
LOS ESTADOS DEPREDADORES: LA OPERACION CONDOR Y LA GUERRA ENCUBIERTA EN AMERICA LATINA, 2009
The translated and updated version of PREDATORY STATES, published in Chile and Uruguay in 2009.
PREDATORY STATES: OPERATION CONDOR AND COVERT WAR IN LATIN AMERICA
Drawing on a wealth of testimonies, declassified files, and Latin American primary sources, the book examines Operation Condor from numerous vantage points: its secret structures; its intelligence networks; its covert operations against dissidents; its political assassinations worldwide; its commanders and operatives; its links to the Pentagon and the CIA; and its extension to Central America in the 1980s.
INCOMPLETE TRANSITION: MILITARY POWER AND DEMOCRACY IN ARGENTINA
The riveting story of Argentina's "dirty war" and the difficult transition to democracy, when the armed forces acted to condition and shape the system to conform to national security criteria.

Lectures

LECTURES AND CONFERENCES


“The Student Movement and the Struggle for Public Education in Chile,” with Raúl Molina Mejía, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program, Long Island University, November 2011.

"The Iraq Papers: Case Study of a Preemptive War," with John Ehrenberg, at Columbia University Seminar, Faculty House, March 2010.

"The Slow Erosion of Impunity: Operation Condor On Trial,” in colloquium “Human Rights and Politics in the Americas,” Institute of Political Studies, Aix-en-Provence, France, March 2010.

"THE IRAQ PAPERS: A presentation" with coauthors John Ehrenberg, José Ramón Sánchez, and Caroleen Marji Sayej, at Oxford University Press, February 2010.

"Why Do States Form Death Squads? Death Squads, the CIA, and Operation Condor in Uruguay.” Panel on "Death Squads in Comparative Perspective," Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, June 2009.

Politics of Violence in Latin America Project, Banff, Canada, May 2009.

"Counterterror Wars and Human Rights: From Operation Condor to the Present," keynote speech at CUNY Graduate School as recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award, May 2009.

"Operation Condor and the Strategy of Counterterror in Latin America," University of Oklahoma, March 2009.

“Operation Condor as an International System of State Violence and Terror,” workshop entitled “Arms, Violence and Politics in Latin America," University of Calgary, Canada, April 2008.

“Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America,” Hartwick College, October 2007.

Chair, organizer, and presenter in panel "Excavating the Dirty Wars: New Archives and Analysis,” in the XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, September 5-9, 2007; my paper entitled "The Extension of Operation Condor to Central America: Research from Honduran Archives.”

“Military Repression against Latin American Labor in the 1970s: The Case of Operation Condor," Cornell University, April 2007.

Moderator and organizer, “The Dirty Wars in Latin America,” Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program, Long Island University, April 2007.

"Operation Condor and Its Legacies,” Regional Conference of Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 2007.

“Operation Condor and U.S. Foreign Policy during the Cold War,” Illinois Wesleyan University, September 2006.

“Operation Condor and Transnational State Terror,” Tufts University, March 2006.