Research (selected)
International Security
- Conflict in Latin America: Regional and Domestic Challenges, book MS under review
- Institutions, Power, and Leadership in War and Peace: Lessons from Peru and Ecuador, 1995-1998 with David Scott Palmer book MS under review
- Violent Peace: Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America. Columbia University Press, 2001
- The United States and Chile: Coming in from the Cold with Francisco Rojas Aravena, Routledge 2001
- “Intra-Latin American Relations” book chapter in preparation for Handbook of Latin American Politics, Peter Kingstone and Deborah J. Yashar eds. Routledge, forthcoming
- “Los temas tradicionales y la agenda latinoamericana” Foreign Affairs Latinoamericana 2008.
- “Confidence and Security-Building Measures as Inter-American Security Institutions: Relevance and Efficiency” in Gordon Mace, Jean-Phillipe Thérien, and Paul Haslam, eds., Governing the Americas: Regional Institutions at the Crossroads Lynne Reinner, 2007
- “Repercusiones para América Latina de los actos terroristas del 11 de septiembre de 2001” Apuntes de Política Exterior 6 2007
- Review of Miguel Angel Centeno, Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002 in Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Winter/Spring 2003
- “Deterrence in the Ecuador-Peru Enduring Rivalry: Designing Around Weakness” Security Studies 6:2 Winter 1996/97
- "Foreign Policy in the ABC: The Burden of the Past, The Hope for the Future," Latin American Research Review, 29:1 1994.
- "Middle Powers Under Regional Hegemony: To Challenge or Acquiesce in Hegemonic Enforcement," International Studies Quarterly, December 1988.
- "Mexico's Foreign Policy as a Middle Power: The Nicaragua Connection 1884-1986," Latin American Research Review XXIII, No.3, 1988.
- "Mexico's Challenge: Sovereignty and National Autonomy Under Interdependence," Third World Quarterly, 9:3, July 1988, pp. 788-803. Chinese translation in Research Materials in Latin American Studies, No. 5, 1989.
- “‘En attendant Godot’ Le multilateralisme a-t-il un avenir en Amerique latine?” in Michel Fortmann & Stephane Roussel, eds., Multilateralisme et Securite Regionale Quebec: Institut Quebecois des Hautes Etudes Internationales, 1996
International Political Economy
- Drug Wars and Coffeehouses: The Political Economy of Drug Policy Congressional Quarterly Press, 2005
- Penetrating the International Market: Theoretical Considerations and a Mexican Case.
Columbia University Press, 1987. Spanish translation, El Colegio de México, 1990.
- “Do Investors Punish the Militarization of Disputes? Evidence from the Western Hemisphere 1990-2005” with Daniel Lake under review
- “Lithium in Bolivia: Can Resource Nationalism Deliver for Bolivians and the World?” Working Paper, James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University 2010
- “Resource Nationalism and Energy Security in Latin America: Implications for Global Supplies” Working Paper, James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy, 2010
- “Institutions, the Illegal Drug Trade, and Participant Strategies: What Corrupt or Pariah States Have In Common with Liberal Democracy and the Rule of Law' International Interactions, 2009
- “Developing the U.S.-Mexico Border Region for a Prosperous and Secure Relationship” (with Erika de la Garza) Baker Institute Policy Report 38, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, April 2009 http://www.bakerinstitute.org/publications/LAI-pub-BorderSecPREnglish-041509.pdf
- “Energy Cooperation and Security in the Hemisphere: Mexican Challenges and Opportunities” Task Force Policy Paper series Center for Hemispheric Policy, U of Miami. 2009
- “Il caso della NOC venezuelana” AGIEnergia,
http://www.agienergia.it/Notizia.aspx?idd=344&id=37&ante=0 May 2009
- “Venezuela’s PDVSA and World Energy Markets: Corporate Strategies and Political Factors Determining its Behavior and Influence” (with Nelson Altamirano) Energy Forum Working Paper Series James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
http://www.rice.edu/energy/publications/docs/NOCs/Papers/NOC_PDVSA_Mares-Altamirano.pdf March 2007
- “Natural Gas Pipelines in the Southern Cone” in David G. Victor, Amy M. Jaffe and Mark H. Hayes, eds., Geopolitics and Natural Gas From 1970 to 2030 Cambridge University Press, 2006
- "El Sector Energético Latinoamericano ¿Fuente de integración o fuente de conflicto?" Contrapunto America Latina 2006
- "Explaining Choice of Development Strategies: Suggestions from Mexico 1970-1982," International Organization, 39:4, Autumn 1985
Comparative Politics
- Latinoamérica:¿existe? Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Chile, 2004
- Civil-Military Relations: Building Democracy and Regional Security in Latin America, Southern Asia and Central Europe as editor, Westview Press, 1998
- “The National Security State” in Thomas H. Holloway, ed., Blackwell Companion to Latin American History 2007
- “U.S. Drug Policy and Mexican Civil-Military Relations: A Challenge for the Mutually Desirable Democratization Process” Crime, Law and Social Change 2003
- "State Leadership in Economic Policy: A Collective Action Framework with a Colombian Case," Comparative Politics, 25:4, July 1993.
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