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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES – Christian Maisch

Christian Maisch
Assistant Professor
U.S. Foreign Policy

Phone
202-895-4928

Fax
202-895-4939

E-Mail
cmaisch@american.edu

Location
Dunblane House, Room 207 (Tenley Campus)

Biography
Dr. Maisch is Assistant Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service (SIS) and Academic Director in the Washington Semester Program. His areas of concentration include U.S. foreign policy; comparative and regional studies; and Latin American history, diplomacy, politics, and development. Since the fall of 1988, his primary teaching responsibility has been the US Foreign Policy Seminars and Internship of the American University's Washington Semester Program (WSP). He has also taught International Relations of Latin America and Contemporary Latin America in SIS.

Dr. Maisch taught the International Environment and Development Seminars and Field Practicum Study and Research Trip to Costa Rica of the Washington Semester Program in the Spring Semesters of 1999 and 2000. He directed the Madrid Semester Program in the Spring of 1991 and the London Semester Program in the Spring Semesters of 1992 and 1994 of the AU's Abroad Programs. Dr. Maisch has also given guest lectures at the Inter-American Defense College and other venues.

Dr. Maisch's research focuses primarily on Latin American politics and diplomatic history. Before joining the full-time faculty of American University, Professor Maisch worked for the Inter-American Development Bank.

Education
MA, PhD, American University
BA, Ohio Dominican College

Publications
Articles

• "Is There an Inter-American International Law: A Case Study of Latin American Juridical and Intellectual History as Seen through the Debate over the Existence of a Regional International Legal System in the Western Hemisphere," Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS), Latin American Essays, Volume XX (September 2007).
• "Free Trade The Inter-American System's Oldest and Newest Goal: The Evolution of Economic Themes in Inter-American Relations from the 1800s to the Present," Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS), Latin American Essays, Volume XVII (June 2004).
• "The Falkland/Malvinas Islands Clash of 1831-1832: US and British Diplomacy in the South Atlantic," Diplomatic History, Volume 24, No. 2 (Spring 2000).
• "The Anglo-Argentine Dispute over the Falkland Islands in the Light of International Law and History" and "La disputa anglo-argentina sobre las Islas Malvinas a la luz del derecho internacional y la historia," book chapters in Argentine Association of International Law, La política internacional, el derecho y el territorio nacional (Córdoba, Argentina: Ediciones del Copista, 1998).
• "Peruvian Democracy in the 1990s," Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS), Latin American Essays, Volume X (1997).

• Un análisis jurídico e histórico de la disputa anglo-argentina sobre las Islas Malvinas [A Legal and Historical Analysis of the Conflicting Anglo-Argentine Claims to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands] (Lima, Peru: Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 1995).

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