Robert
Pastor became Vice President of International Affairs and Professor
of International Relations at American University on Sept. 1, 2002. He established
and directs a new Center for North American Studies that will teach students
about Canada, Mexico and the United States, and undertake research on ways
to facilitate integration and improve relations among the three countries
and peoples.Before arriving at American University, Pastor was professor of
Political Science at Emory University, and from 1985-1998, he was a Fellow
and Founding Director of the Carter Center’s Latin American and Caribbean
Program and the Democracy and China Election Projects.
He was the Director of Latin American Affairs on the National Security Council
from 1977-81, was nominated to be Ambassador to Panama in 1993, and was the
Senior Advisor to the Carter-Nunn-Powell mission to Haiti.
Pastor has a Ph.D. from Harvard University and is the author or editor of
14 books, including Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old
World for the New (Institute for International Economics, 2001) and, with
Jorge G. Castaneda, Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico (Knopf,
1988).