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.

My Works

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Sample reviews of PREDATORY STATES



Sample Reviews of THE IRAQ PAPERS



BOOK CHAPTERS (selected)


"'Industrial Repression’ and Operation Condor in Latin America,” in Marcia Esparza et al, eds., STATE VIOLENCE AND GENOCIDE IN LATIN AMERICA: THE COLD WAR YEARS (Routledge, 2009).

"Preserving Hegemony: National Security Doctrine in the Post-Cold War Era," in Peter L. Kingstone, ed., READINGS IN LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS: CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRATIZATION (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).

"Operation Condor as a Hemispheric ‘Counterterror’ Organization," in Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez, eds., WHEN STATES KILL: LATIN AMERICA, THE U.S., AND TECHNOLOGIES OF TERROR (University of Texas Press, 2005).

"Borges's Political World: A Brief Look at 20th-Century Argentine History," in Gregary Racz, ed., JORGE LUIS BORGES AT THE MILLENNIUM (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002).

EDITED JOURNALS


Guest editor (with Raúl Molina Mejía), special issue of SOCIAL JUSTICE, "Shadows of State Terrorism: Impunity in Latin America," Vol. 26, no.4 (Winter 1999).

SAMPLE ARTICLES:


"Challenges to U.S. Hegemony in Latin America," JOURNAL OF THIRD WORLD STUDIES, Vol. XX, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 235-242.

"Tracking the Origins of a State Terror Network: Operation Condor," LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES, Issue 122, Vol. 29, no. 1 (January 2002): 38-60. Consistently noted in the journal's “50 Most-Frequently-Cited Articles.”

"Justice in the Gerardi Case: But Terror Continues," (with Raúl Molina Mejía), NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS, Vol. XXXV, no. 1 (July-August 2001): 8-11.