STEPHEN P. MUMME, PH.D.
Curriculum Vitae
(updated 11-28-00)

Department of Political Science
B347 Clark Building
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
OFFICE: (970) 49l-7428
FAX: (970) 491-2490
email: stephen.mumme@colostate.edu

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Academic Background:

1973: B.A., Arizona State University
1975: M.A., Arizona State University
1982: Ph.D. University of Arizona
Dissertation: -The United States-Mexico Groundwater Conflict: Domestic Influence on Foreign Policy

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Field Specialization:

Comparative politics; Comparative environmental politics; Latin American politics; Modernization and development.

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Professional Experience:

1998- Fulbright-Hays Senior Scholar, El Colegio de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora.
1990- Professor, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University.
1987- Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University.
1987- Visiting Professor, University of Arizona Guadalajara Summer School, Guadalajara, Mexico.
1986- Visiting Professor, University of Arizona Guadalajara Summer School, Guadaljara, Mexico.
1983- Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University.
1982/1983- Post-doctoral Research Associate of the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies,
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
1982- Visiting Lecturer at the American Graduate School of International Management, Glendale, Arizona.
1982- Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

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Consultancies:

1995-1996- Consultant, Commission on Environmental Cooperation, Montreal (Quebec), Canada.
1987-1988- Consultant, Latin American Institute, University of New Mexico and KNME-TV, Albuquerque.
1983-1984- Consultant, John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies.

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Fellowships and Grants:

1998- Fulbright-Hays Senior Scholar Fellowship. Research-Lecturer. Eight month appointment with El Colegio de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Fellowship stipend of $33,000.00.

1989-1999- Colorado State University, 1983-2000: 9 Faculty Development Grants totaling over $5,000.00 to present papers at various conferences.

1996- Commission on Environmental Cooperation (Montreal, Quebec) grant to study institutional and political practices for North American transboundary inland water management. Project 95.23.01, The Mexico-United States- Canada Transboundary Inland Water Project. $25,000.00.

1992- Visiting Research Fellowship, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego. Award of $40,000.00 to study the politics of environmental management on the U.S.-Mexico border. Declined.

1985- Recipient, John Stern Fellowship, Office of the Dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science, Colorado State Univer-sity. $1,000.00 stipend awarded for completion of a project with strong promise of publication.

1984- USIA Lecturer, Mexico, American Participant Program, June 4-8, l984. Lecture topic, "Resolving Water Related Environmental Disputes Along the U.S.-Mexican Border."

1983- Principal investigator with Helen Ingram. U.S. Office of Water Resources and Technology Grant of $8,000.00 to study the impact of the Southern Arizona Water Settlement Act on the Papago Tribe.

l98l- Bank of America Fellowship with the Program for U.S. Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego. $3,600.00.

l980- Graduate Summer Internship with the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C. Jointly sponsored by the Overseas Development Council, Washington, D. C. Stipend $2,000.00.

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Publications (by field specialization and type):

Comparative and International Environmental Politics:
"Decentralization and Environmental Protection on Mexico's Northern and Southern Boundaries," forthcoming in Journal of Environment and Development. With Donna Lybecker.

"Democrartic Transition, Decentralization, and Local Capacity for Environmental Policy- Making: Lessons from Hungary and Mexico," forthcoming in Social Science Journal. With Valerie Assetto and Eva Hajba.

"North American Bounbary and Transboundary Inland Water Management Repart." Montreal, Canada: Secretariat, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, North American Environmental Law and Policy, No. 7. Printed by Editions Yvon Blais, 2001. I am one of 18 contribing authors to this volume, with specific responsibilities for sections on the "U. S.-Mexico Instutional Framework" and "U. S.-Mexico groundwater."

"Decentralization and Citizen Participation in Transboundary Water Management: Lessons from Hungary and Mexico." In David Newman, Alisdair Cooke, and Clive Schofield, eds., The Political Geography of International Cooperation. London: Kluwer Press. With Valerie Assetto.

"NAFTA and Environment," in Gabriela Kutting, ed., International Environmental Politics, Encyclopedia of the Life
Sciences.
Paris: United Nations Development Program. with Donna Lybecker."

"Mexico," in Helmut Weidner, Martin Janicke, and Helge Joergens, eds., Capacity Building in Environmental Policy: A Comparative Study of 17 Countries. National Environmental Policies, Vol. 2. berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2002. With Donna Lybecker.

"Rules and Politics in Regional Integration: Environmental Regulation in NAFTA and the EU," Environmental Politics, Volume 9, 20-42 pages, 2000. with Dimitris Stevis.

"Mexico," forthcoming in Janicke and Weidner, eds., National Environmental Policies: A Comparative Analysis of Capacity Building, Vol. 2. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000. with Donna Lybecker.

"Water Resources in Latin America," p. 685 in Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, and Ana M. Lopez, eds., Encylopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture, Vol. 3. London: Routledge Press, 2000. with Donna Lybecker

"Sustainable Development and Environmental Decentralization on the Border: Insights from Sonora," in Lawrence A. Herzog, ed., Shared Space: The Mexico-United States Environmental Future. (La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California Press, 2000).

"Nafta and Environment," Foreign Policy In Focus, Vol. 4, No. 26 (October 1999). Abstracted and reprinted in The Progressive Response, an electronic newsletter of the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C. available on the Web at: [http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/progresp/progresp.html]
Reprinted in NAMI NEWS, a publication of the North American Institute, No. 24 (Fall/Winter 1999):12-14. Available at NAMI's website: [http://www.northamericaninstitute.org]

"Nafta's Environmental Side Agreement: Almost Green," Borderlines, Vol. 7, No. 9 (October 1999).

"La Decentralizacion de la politica ambiental en la frontera norte: algunas reflexiones desde Sonora," Region y Sociedad, Vol. 9, No. 16 (Julio-Deciembre 1998): 47-80.

North American Inland Water Management Report. Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Montreal (Quebec) Canada: CEC, November 1998. Multiple authors. I am listed as the contributor for transboundary groundwater and institutional framework sections of the report..

"The Dynamics of Transboundary Environmental Agreements in North America: Discussion of Preliminary Findings," pps. 32-52 in Richard Kiy and John D. Wirth, eds., Environmental Management on North America's Borders. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1998. With Roberto Sanchez, Konrad Von Moltke, John Kirton, and Don Munton.

"Manejo del Agua para el Desarrollo Sustentable en Hermosillo: Retos Legales, Administrativos, y Politicos," in Nicolas Pineda y Jose Luis Moreno, coordinadores, El Agua en Hermosillo. Hermosillo: El Colegio de Sonora, 1998.
"Decentralizacion de las Politicas Ambientales en el Area Fronteriza," Raices de Arena, No. 3-4 (Verano 1998): 1, 17-24.

"Democracy and the Environment in Latin America," pps. 37-53 in Philip Kelly, ed., Democracy and the Environment in Latin America. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. with Katherine Hochstetler.

"Environmental Politics in Mexico," in Uday Desai, ed. Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries: Economic Growth, Democracy, and Environmental Protection. Albany: State University of New York Press,1998.

"The Commission for Environmental Cooperation and Environmental Management in the Americas," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Winter 1997-1998). with Pamela Duncan.

"NAFTA and North American Transboundary Environmental Management," pps. 249-263 in Gerald Blake, et. al., eds., International Boundaries and Environmental Security. London: Kluwer International, 1997.

"Water Resource Protection in Taiwan: An Evaluation of the Taipei Water Management Commission," Environmental Management, Vol. 21 (November/December 1997). With Shu-Hsiang, Hsu.

Transboundary Environmental Management in North America: Opportunities and Options for the Commission on Environmental Cooperation. Montreal (Quebec): Commission for Environmental Cooperation, 1996. With John Kirton, Konrad Von Moltke, Don Munton, Alejandro Nodal, and Roberto Sanchez. 27 p. + database.

The Institutional Framework for Transboundary Inland Water Management in North America: Mexico, Canada, the United States, and their Binational Agencies. Report submitted to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal (Quebec), Canada under Contract 95.23.01 The Mexico-United States-Canada Transboundary Inland Water Project. December 1996. 91 p. + tables.

"Democratization, Politics, and Environmental Reform in Latin America," pps. 40-59 in Gordon MacDonald, Daniel Nielsen, and Marc Stern, eds., Latin American Environmental Policymaking in International Perspective. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. with Edward Korzetz.

"Mexico's New Environmental Policy: An Assessment," pps. 97-118 in Donald E. Schulz and Edward J. Williams, eds., Mexico Faces the 21st Century. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1995.

"Mexico," pp. 429-430 in Robert Paelke, ed., Encylopedia of Conservation and Environmentalism. New York: Garland Press, 1995.

"Mexican Environmental Reform and NAFTA," North American Outlook, Vol. 4, No. 3 (March 1994): 87-101. Reprinted as "The North American Free Trade Agreement: The Environmental Side Agreement and the Parallel Bilateral Accords," Transboundary Resources Report, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 1994): 1-3.

"Environmentalists, NAFTA, and North American Environmental Management," Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 1 (Winter 1993): 1-15.

"New Directions in Mexican Environmental Policy," Environmental Management, Vol. 16. No. 4 (July/August 1992). With Roberto Sanchez.

"System Maintenance and Environmental Reform in Mexico: Salinas's Preemptive Strategy," Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter 1992): 123-143.

"Clearing the Air: Environmental Reform in Mexico," Environment, Vol. 33, No. 10(December 1991): 6-30.

"Nuclear Power, Technological Autonomy, and the State in Mexico," Latin American Research Review, Vol. 26, No. 3 (1991): 55-82. With Dimitris Stevis.

"Energy Diversification and Nuclear Technology: The Mexican Case," Ekestics, Vol. 57, No. 344/345 (September/October-November/December 1990): 310-318. with Dimitris Stevis.

"Mexico's Environment Under Salinas: Institutionalizing Policy Reform," Review of Latin American Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1990): 43-81. With Roberto Sanchez.

"Policy and Prescription in United States-Mexico Relations: Review Article," Latin American Research Review, Vol. 25, No. 3 (1990).

"Toward a Global Regime for Managing Transboundary Hazardous Waste," Current World Leaders, Vol. 33, No. 6 (December 1990). With Jeff R. Jones.

"International Environmental Politics: A Theoretical Review of the Literature," in James P. Lester, ed., Environmental Politics and Policy: Theory and Evidence (Durham: Duke University Press, 1989). with Dimitris Stevis and Valerie J. Assetto. Reprinted in Environmental Policy, Vol. 2, International Environmental Policy, Wolfgang Rudig, ed., Williston, VT: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2000.

"Mexico's Environmental Policy: A Moral Assessment," IDEA Proceedings. Proceedings of the 2nd International Meeting of the International Development Ethics Association, Merida, Mexico, July 3-8, 1989.

"Political Development and Environmental Policy in Mexico," Latin American Research Review, Vol. 23, No. 1 (1988). With C. Richard Bath and Valerie Assetto. Abstracted and Reprinted under the same title in Concepts of the Environment in the Social Sciences, Wye College External Programme, University of London, 1993.

"The Evolution of the Mexican Political System: A Paradigmatic Analysi-s." The Future of Mexico, L. E.- Koslow (ed.). (Tempe, -Arizona: Arizona State University Press, l977). Co-authored with Lawrence E. Koslow.

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U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Management:

"The AII-American Canal: Perspectives on the Possibility of Reaching a Bilateral Agreement, " forthcoming in Jose L. Castro, ed., El Canal Todo Americano. Tijuana:Colegio de Estudios Fronterizos. With Donna Lybecker.

"Managing Border Water to the Year 2020: The Challenge of Sustainable Development, " forthcoming in Paul Ganster, ed., Binational Water Management Planning. San Diego: Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy, San Diego State University. With Ismael Aguilar .

"Decentralizing Water Policy on the U.S.-Mexico Border, " forthcoming in Scott Whiteford and Roberto Melville, eds., Decentralization and Water Policy in Mexico. La Jolla, CA: Center for U.S. -Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego. With Chris Brown.

"The Case for Adding an Environmental Minute to the United States-Mexico Water Treaty of 1944," Tulane University Environmental Law Review (forthcoming 2002).

"Water Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Mandate Challenges for Binational Institutions," in The Future of the U.S.-Mexican Border. Washington, D.C.: Environmental Change and Security Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Published in 2002 in electronic format at http://ecs12.si.edu/tiiuana-m12.htm. With Nicolas Pineda. Forthcoming in Spanish language version entitled " Administracion del Agua ella Frontera Mexico-Estados Unidos: Retos de Mandato para las Instituciones Binacionales." Alfonso Cortes, coordinador, Tijuana: Colegio de Estudios Fronterizos.

"Reinventing the International Boundary and Water Commission," Borderlines, Vol. 9, No. 6 (July 2001): 1-5. Also published in electronic format by the Americas Project of the Interhemispheric Resources Center www .americaspolicy.org. Expanded and revised version with footnotes published with permission under the title, "The U.S.-Mexico International Boundary and Water Commission in the Sustainable Development Era," Boundary and Security Bulletin, Vol. 9, No.2 (Summer 2001): 117-125).

"Applied and Theoretical Aspects of Binational Watershed Councils (Consejos de Cuencas) in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Fall 2000): 895-930. with Chris Brown.

"Closing: The La Paz Symposium on Transboundary Groundwater Management on the U.S.-Mexican Border," Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Spring 2000): 435-438.

Editor. The La Paz Symposium on Transboundary Groundwater Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Spring 2000).

"Minute 242 and Beyond: Challenges and Opportunities for Managing Transboundary Groundwater on the Mexico-United States Border," Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Spring 2000): 341-378.

"Consejos de Cuencas: An Institutional Option for Transboundary Water Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border," International Review of Comparative Public Policy, Vol. 11 (1999): 115-139. with Chris Brown.

"Innovation Prospects in U.S.-Mexico Border Water Management: The IBWC and the BECC in Theoretical Perspective," Government and Policy, Vol. 17, No. 6 (December): 753-772. With Scott T. Moore.

"Beyond BECC: Envisioning Needed Institutional Reforms for Environmental Protection on the Mexico-U.S. Border," pps. 759-778 in Dennis L. Soden and Brent S. Steel, eds., Handbook of Global Environmental Policy and Administration. New York: Marcel-Dekker, Inc., 1999.

"Managing Acute Water Scarcity on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Institutional Issues Raised by the 1990's Drought," Natural Resources Journal Vol. 39, No. 1 (Winter 1999): 149-166. Edited and Reproduced in Transboundary Resources Report, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Summer 1998): 6-8.

"Assessing Transboundary Environmental Impacts on the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada Borders," Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 1997). With Lilias Jones and Pamela Duncan.

"The Commission on Environmental Cooperation and the U.S.-Mexican Border Environment," Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Winter 1996). With Pamela Duncan.

"Environmental Management on the Mexico-United States Border: NAFTA and the Emerging Bilateral Regime," American Review of Canadian Studies, (Summer 1996): 205-216.

Groundwater Management on the Mexico-United States Border. Report submitted to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal (Quebec), Canada under Contract, Project 95.23.01 The Mexico-United States-Canada Transboundary Inland Water Project. December 1996. 42 p. + tables.

"The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation and the United States--Mexico Border Region: The Case of Air and Water," Transboundary Resources Report, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer 1995): 1-3.

"A New Regime for Managing U.S.-Mexican Water Resources," Environmental Management, Volume 19, No. 6 (November-December 1995): 827-836.

"New Challenges for U.S.-Mexico Water Management," in C. Schofield, ed., Peaceful Management of Transboundary Resources. London: Graham and Trotman/Matinus Nijhoff, Inc., 1995.

"Enforcing International Environmental Agreements: Lessons from the U.S.-Mexico Border," Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Winter 1994): 71-89.

"NAFTA and the Future of Mexico-U.S. Border Environmental Management," Frontera Norte, Vol. 5, Num. 10 (Jul-Dic, 1993).

"Innovation and Reform in Transboundary Resources Management: A Critical Look at the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico," Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Winter 1993): 93-120. Abstracted and reprinted as "Pressures for Reform of the IBWC," Transboundary Resources Report, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Winter 1991): 4-6.

"New Directions in Transboundary Environmental Management: A Critique of Current Proposals," Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Summer 1992): 539-562. Abstracted and reprinted as "The International Boundary and Water Commission: The Future," in Transboundary Resources Report, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter 1992): 4-5.

"Managing Resources Across Boundaries: The Case of the United States-Mexico and Mexico-Guatemala Boundary Commissions," in Lawrence A. Herzog, ed., Changing Boundaries of the Americas. La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1992.

"Agency Autonomy in Transboundary Resources Management: The United States' Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico." Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Summer 1990). With Scott Moore. Abstracted and reprinted as "The International Boundary and Water Commission Resists Predation by Other Domestic Agencies," Transboundary Resources Report, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer, l989): l-2; "Foreign Policy and the International Boundary and Water Commission: the Anomaly of Autonomy," Transboundary Resources Report, Vol. 3, No. l (Spring l989): 6-7; and "Agency Autonomy of U.S. Transboundary Resource Commission," Transboundary Resources Report, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Winter 1989): 3-4.

"National Perspectives on Managing Transboundary Environmental Hazards: The U.S.-Mexico Border Region," Journal of Borderlands Studies Vol. 3, No. 1. (Spring, 1988) With Joseph Nalven. Excerpted in Transboundary Resources Report, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Winter 1988).

Apportioning Groundwater Beneath the Mexico-United States Border. (San Diego: Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies, Research Paper No. 45, 1988).

"Complex Interdependence and Hazardous Waste Management Along the U.S.-Mexico Border" in Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Politics and Policy, Jim Lester and Charles Davis, eds. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.) Abstracted and reprinted under the same title in Transboundary Resources Report, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Winter 1990): 2-3.

"Managing the Border Environment," in Una Frontera, Dos Naciones, Oscar Martinez (ed.). (Mexico: PROFMEX/ANUIES, 1988). Abstracted and reprinted as "International Boundary and Water Commission," Vol. 1, No. 1 Transboundary Resources Report (Spring 1987): 5-6. With Joe Nalven.

"State and Local Influence in Transboundary Environmental Policy Making Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Case of Air Quality Management," Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol. II, No. 1 (Spring 1987)

"Progress and Problems in Managing the Border Environment," Mexico Policy News, No. 2 (Spring 1987): 5-7. Reprinted in Transboundary Resources Report, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring, 1988). Reprinted as "La Paz Agreement: Progress and Problems in Managing the Border Environment," pp. 1174-1177 in Barry E. Carter and Phillip R. Trimble, International Law. Boston: Little, Brown, Inc., 1991.

"Complex Interdependence and Hazardous Waste Management Along the U.S.-Mexico Border" in Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Politics and Policy, Jim Lester and Charles Davis, eds. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.) Abstracted and reprinted under the same title in Transboundary Resources Report, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Winter 1990): 2-3.

"Managing the Border Environment," in Una Frontera, Dos Naciones, Oscar Martinez (ed.). (Mexico: PROFMEX/ANUIES, 1988). Abstracted and reprinted as "International Boundary and Water Commission," Vol. 1, No. 1 Transboundary Resources Report (Spring 1987): 5-6. With Joe Nalven.

"Engineering Diplomacy: The Evolving Role of the International Boundary and Water Commission in U.S.-Mexico Water Management," Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1986).

"La Comision Internacional de Limites y Aguas, Los Estados Unidos y Mexico. La Proteccion del Ambiente en la Frontera Entre los Estados Unidos y Mexico." Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de Mexico, Tomo XXXV, Num. 142-143 (Julio-Deciembre 1985): 627-643.

"State Participation in Foreign Policy-Making: Water Related Environ-mental Disputes Along the United States-Mexico Border," Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 4 (December 1985).

"Dependency and Interdependency in Hazardous Waste Management Along the U.S.-Mexico Border," Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1 (September 1985).

"The Cananea Copper Controversy: Lessons for Environmental Diplomacy," Interamerican Economic Affairs, Vol. 38 (Summer 1984).

"Regional Influence in National Diplomacy: The Case of the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission," Publius, Vol. 14 (1984).

"Disputing Hidden Waters: Dimensions of Groundwater Conflict Along the U.S.-Mexican Border," New Scholar, Vol. 9 (1984). Co-authored with Milton H. Jamail.

"Energy Resources." The United States-Mexico Borderlands Sourcebook. Ellwyn R. Stoddard, Jonathan P. West, and Richard L. Nostrand, eds. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, l983). Co-authored with Hannah J. Cortner and Edward J. Williams.

"The International Boundary and Water Commission as a Conflict Management Agency in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," Social Science Journal, Vol. l9 (January l982). Co-authored with Milton H. Jamail.

"The Background and Significance of Minute 26l of the International Boundary and Water Commission," California Western International Law Journal, Vol. ll (Spring l98l).

The U.S.-Mexican Conflict Over Transboundary Groundwaters: Some Institu-tional and Political Considerations," Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 12 (Summer l980).

"The U.S.-Mexico Groundwater Dispute: Binational Prospects and Implications" Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 1 (February 1980)

The Politics of Water Apportionment and Pollution Problems in United States-Mexico Relations. Washington, D.C.: Overseas Development Council, U.S.-Mexico Project Working Paper No. 5, Summer 1982.

Continuity and Change in U.S.-Mexico Land and Water Relations: The Politics of the International Boundary and Water Commission. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, The Wilson Center, The Latin American Program, Working Paper No. 77, 1981.

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Borderlands Theory and Politics:

"U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Studies at the Millenium," Boundary and Security Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 4, (Winter 1999-2000): 102-105.

"Structuration Theory and the Analysis of International Territorial Disputes: Lessons from an Application to the El Chamizal Controversy," Political Research Quarterly , Vol. 51(December 1998): 969-985. with Carl Grundy-Warr.

"After NAFTA: Trade Integration and the Border Three Years On," Boundary and Security Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer 1997). with Donna Lybecker.

"Territorial Implications of Quebec's Referendum," Boundary and Security Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter 1995-96). with Pamela Duncan.

"The Present Status of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Studies: A Critique," Policy Currents, Vol. 2, No. 1 (February 1992): 1-6.

Boundary Briefing. United States-Mexico Boundary. International Boundaries Research Unit. Durham, England: University of Durham, 1991.

Statecraft, Domestic Politics, and Foreign Policy Making: The El Chamizal Dispute (Boulder: Westview Press, 1988). with Alan Lamborn.

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Other Topics:

"Gender and the Mexican Revolution: The Intersection of Family, State, and Church," in Mary Ann Tetreault, ed., Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World. University of South Carolina Press, 1994. with Diane Mitsch Bush.

"The Battle of Naco, September 1914-January 1915," pp. 355-356 in Benjamin Beede, ed., The War of 1898 and U.S. Interventions, 1898-1934: An Encylopedia. New York: Garland Press, 1994.

"Fallacies in Setting the Agenda on Official English: The Foundations of Colorado's 1988 English Only Amendment," Justicia y Derecho. with Susan Kirkpatrick.

"English as Official Language or English Only: A Comment," Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (July 1990): 78-79.

"Teaching Political Development in the 1990's: Its Perils and Possibilities," Teaching Political Science; Vol 15, No. 4 (Summer 1988).

"San Juan-Chama, Aamodt, and the Importance of Water to Traditional Hispanics," in Water and Poverty in the Southwest: Conflict, Opportu-nity, and Responsibility, F. Lee Brown and Helen Ingram primary authors. (Tucson University of Arizona Press, 1988). (In addition to most of this chapter, I contributed sections to other portions of the book and am listed as a contributing author along with other members of the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies research team.)

"Community Values in Southwest Water Management," Policy Studies Review, Vol. 5. No. 2 (November 1985). with Helen Ingram.

"The Policy Analysis of Water Shortages: A Review Article," in Policy Studies Journal, Vol. ll (March l983). Co-authored with Helen Ingram.

"Epilogue." Illegal Aliens in the Western Hemisphere. Kenneth F. Johnson and Miles W. Williams (New York: Praeger, 1981).

"The Battle of Naco, Factionalism and Conflict in Sonora, 1914-1915," Arizona and the West, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Summer): 157-186.

"Mexican Politics and the Prospects for Emigration Policy: A Policy Perspective." Inter-American Economic Affairs, Vol. 32 (Summer l978).

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Published Reports and Briefings:

Quarterly "Americas" Report published in the Boundary and Security Bulletin. 26 Americas reports have been filed and published to date (from January 1994 though Summer 2000), detailing boundary news in the Western Hemisphere. A complete list available on request.

"NAFTA and the Border Environment: Institutional Aspects," Written Testimony submitted to the U.S. Drade Deficit Review Commission, Dallas, Texas, January 21, 2000. Available at the USTDRC website: [www.ustdrc.gov] See also, Stephen P. Mumme, Oral Testimony for the Record. Panel on Environmental Impacts and Solutions, Public Hearing of the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission, Dallas, Texas, Friday, January 21, 2000: 230-238. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000.

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Electronically Available Reports and Briefings:

"Policy Decentralization and Water in Northwestern Mexico," briefing paper presented at conference on The Mexico-U.S. Border Environment: Stakeholder Participation and Development Policy, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, October 6, 2000. Sponsored by the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, San Diego and the Centro de Calidad Ambiental, ITESM, Monterrey. Paper available at the Center=s website: www.usmex.ucsd.edu .

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Book Reviews:

Vivienne Bennett. The Politics of Water in Mexico. Reviewed in Water Resources Development, Vol. 15, Nos. 1-2 (March/June 1999).

Victoria Rodriguez, Decentralization in Mexico. Reviewed in Perspectives in Political Science, Vol. 27 (Summer 1998).

Tim Dunn, The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexican Border, 1978-1992. Reviewed in the Social Science Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2 (1998).

Riordan Roett, ed., The Challenge of Institutional Reform in Mexico. Reviewed in Perspectives on Political Science (Winter 1996).

Alan Sweedler, Paul Ganster, and Patricia Bennett, eds. Energy and the Environment in the California-Baja California Border Region. Reviewed in the Boundary and Security Bulletin, (June 1996).

Helen Ingram, Nancy Laney, and David Gillilan. Divided Waters. Reviewed in American Political Science Review, Vol. 90, No. 2 (June 1996).

Dan A. Cothran. Political Stability and Democracy in Mexico. Reviewed in Perspectives in Political Science, Vol. 25, (Winter 1996).

Larry Herzog. Where North Meets South. Reviewed in Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Fall 1994).

John Walton. Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California. Reviewed in American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 98, No. 6 (May 1993).

George W. Grayson, (ed.) Prospects for Democracy in Mexico. Reviewed in History, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Spring 1991).

Thomas J. Price. Standoff at the Border: A Failure of Microdiplomacy. Reviewed in Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 1990).

George W. Grayson. Oil and Mexican Foreign Policy. Reviewed in Journal of Politics (1989).

David R. Mares. Penetrating the International Market. Reviewed in The American Political Science Review, Vol 83, No. 2 (June l989).

Arturo Alvarado (ed.). Electoral Patterns and Perspectives in Mexico. Reviewed in Perspective, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring, 1988).

Gay Young (ed.). The Social Ecology and Economic Development of Ciudad Juarez. Reviewed in the Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 1987).

A.J. Somjee, Political Society in Developing Countries. Reviewed in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 79 (December 1985).

Clark W. Reynolds and Carlos Tello (eds.). U.S.-Mexico Relations: Economic and Social Aspects. Reviewed in The South Eastern Latin Americanist, Vol. 28 (September, 1984).

Richard R. Fagen and Olga Pellicer (eds.). The Future of Central America: Policy Choices for the U.S. and Mexico. Reviewed in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 78 (December, 1984).

Manuel Millor. Mexico's Oil: Catalyst for a New Relationship With the U.S.? Reviewed in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 77 (December, l983).

Susan Kaufman Purcell (ed.). Mexico-United States Relations. Reviewed in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 77 (March, l983).

Susan Eckstein. The Poverty of Revolution: The State and Urban Poor in Mexico. Reviewed in The Western Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 32 (June, l979).

**Other reviews and notes published in The Hispanic American Historical Review and Arizona and the West: A Quarterly Journal of History.

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Popular Press:

"New Tensions in Mexican Politics Could Strain Relations With the U.S.," Denver Post, July 25, 1988: 7B.
"RMCLAS Holds 33rd Meeting," Times of the Americas, March 9, 1988: 8.
"Mexico Chooses a President," Denver Post, October 1, 1987: 5B.
"Latin American Studies are a Valuable Bargain," Rocky Mountain News, April 13, 1987: 46.
"Saving the Border Ecology," The Denver Post, April 4, 1987: 4C.
"Flaws in Immigration Reform," The Denver Post, November 26, 1986: 7B.
"Myths Muddle Immigration Issue," The Denver Post, 1984: 23-A.
"Importing Air Pollution," New York Times, July 23, l983.
"Want Water, Pay the Pipero," San Diego Union, February 27.1983: C-3.
"Is the Water We Save Mexico's?" Los Angeles Times, September 17, 1982: B2.
**Other articles and commentaries published in the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Citizen, San Diego Union and Coloradoan.

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Conference Papers (selected list):

Invited panelist. Session on Looking Ahead-Prospective Issues, Conference ...to the Sea of Cortes: nature, water, culture, and livelihood in the Lower Colorado River Delta. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, and the University of California, Riverside. Mission Inn, Riverside, California, September 20-30, 2000.

Paper. "Policy Decentralization and Water in Northwestern Mexico." Presented at conference on The Mexico-US Border Environment: Stakeholder Participation and Development Policy." Sponsored by the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, and the Centro de Calidad Ambiental (ITESM Monterrey Campus) in association with the International Congress of the Association Mexicana de Estudios Internationales. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. October 6- 7, 2000.

Invited Speaker. Symposium y Ahora Que: Implications of the Vicente Fox Presidency in Mexico. University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. November 9,2000.

Invited Honorary Speaker, Inaugural Ceremony, Taiwan Institute of Technology, Yaolin, Taiwan. August 1, 2000.

Invited Paper, Minute 242 and Beyond. Symposium on Groundwater Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border, La Paz, Baja California Sur, February 7-9, 1999. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, U.C. Irvine School of Ecology, and the International Transboundary Resources Center, U. of New Mexico, School of Law.

Invited Paper, Decentralizing Environmental Policy on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Symposium on Shared Space: The U.S.-Mexico Environmental Future. Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies, University of California San Diego, February 4-6, 1999.

Panel Organizer, Panel on Environmental Politics in Mexico, Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Colorado Springs, Colorado. February 18-20, 1999.

Invited Lecture, Managing Groundwater on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Annual Meeting of the International Boundary and Water Commission, San Diego, California. Apri120, 1999.

Paper on Environmental Decentralization on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Association of Borderlands Studies Annual Meeting/Western Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, Fort Worth Texas, April 21-24, 1999.

Invited Paper, Decentralization, Participation, and Environmental Policy in Hungary and Mexico, Panel on Participatory Processes in Transboundary River Basin Management, International Conference on Participatory Processes in Water Management, a UNESCO Satellite Conference to the World Conference on Science, Budapest, Hungary, June 28-30, 1999. With Valerie J. Assetto.

Invited Workshop Participant and Panelist, Panel on Who Cares About Binationality and Twin Cities?" Ford Foundation Sponsored Workshop on U.S.-Mexico Border Twin Cities: Binational Interactions. University of Redlands, Redlands California, November 9-12, 1999.

Invited presentation on Environmental Administration on the U.S.-Mexico Border, January 27, 1998. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.

Co-organizer with Prof. Nicolas Pineda, Foro: Hermosillo y el Agua. El Colegio de Sonora, March 3-4, 1998. This conference brought in a dozen academic and administrative specialists to address the City of Hermosillo ' s water management challenges.

Invited presentation on Institutional Aspects of Environmental Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border, First Annual Encuento on the Border Environment, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, March 7-8, 1998.

Discussant on panel on Global and Domestic Players in Environmental Politics, Western Political Science Association meeting in Los Angeles, California, March 20, 1998.

Paper on Decentralizing Environmental Policy in Mexico: Water Management in Hermosillo, Sonora given at the annual meeting of the Association of Borderlands Studies, Apri1 1998.

Co-organized panel on Decentralizing Environmental Management in Mexico and Hungary for the annual meeting of the Association of Borderlands Studies, Apri1 1998.

Invited talk on NAFTA and Environmental Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border, July 9, 1998, Technical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.

Presented paper on "Environmental and Labor Politics and North American Integration:Practice and Prospects," at panel on NAFT A and Transnational Issues, annual conference of the Western Political Science Association, Tucson, Arizona, March 13-15,1997.

Panel Organizer. Panel on Democratization and the Environment in Latin America:Perspectives and Cases. XXth International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April1 7 -19, 1997.

Panel Organizer, Institutional Innovation in U.S.-Mexico Border Water Management,Annual Meeting of the Association of Borderlands Scholars, Albuquerque, NM, April 23-26, 1997. Presented two papers, the first, "Beyond BECC: Envisioning Needed Institutional Reforms for Environmental Protection along the Mexico-U.S. Border" (with Terry Sprouse), the second, "Innovation Prospects in U.S. Mexico Border Water Management: The IBWC and the BECC in Theoretical Perspective," (with Scott T. Moore).

Invited presentation at Conference on International River Basins under Stress, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, June 2-6. Co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the International Transboundary Resources Center, University of New Mexico.

Invited paper, "Managing Acute Water Scarcity on the U.S.-Mexico Border," Symposium on Coping with Water Scarcity in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo River Basin: Lessons to be Learned from the 1995-1996 Drought. Ford Foundation and the International Transboundary Resources Center, Cuernavaca, Mexico, November 9-12,1997.

Invited Speaker, "Understanding the Border Environment," presented at Symposium on Toward Sustainability: The State of Research, Institutions, and Information on the U.S.-Mexico Border Environment. March 1-3, 1996, Guaymas, Sonora. Sponsered by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, U. Of Arizona and the Ford Foundation, Mexico.

Invited Speaker, "NAFTA and the Border Environment," International Studies Program,University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, April, 8-9. Also gave presentation on Mexican environmental politics to Prof. Adrian Bantjes' Modern Mexican History class and guest lectured in Prof. Steve Ropp's Latin American seminar.

Presented paper on The Commission on Environmental Cooperation and Environmental Management in the Americas," panel on Building Capacity for Environmental Governance: Nafta and Beyond. Annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, March 14-16,1996.

Presented Paper on "Analyzing Transboundary Politics in Border Regions: Towards Better Theory" Roundtable on Borderlands Theory Revisited. Annual meeting the Association of Borderlands Scholars, Reno, Nevada, April 15-21, 1996.

Invited Participant. Conference on Managing the Relationship: Perspective from the States and Report on the New Nafta Institutions. San Antonio, Texas, June 6- 7,1996. Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the North American Institute, Santa Fe.

Invited Participant. Ford Foundation meeting on the development of clearinghouse for environmental information on the U.S.-Mexico Border. El Paso, Texas June 25-26, 1996.

Invited Speaker, Roundtable on Are Free Trade and the Environment Compatible," International Studies Association West, Eugene, Oregon, October 10-12, 1996.

"NACEC and the Border Environment," presented at panel on New Directions in North American Environmental Management," Association of Borderlands Scholars Meeting, Oakland, CA, April 28, 1995.

"NAFTA and International Social Policy," presented at panel on Nafta and the Environment: A Critical Assessment. Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 22, 1995.

Invited Paper. "Environmental Management on the U.S.-Mexican Border: The Emerging International Regime," paper given at the Trinational Symposium on Border Demographics and Regional Interdependency, February 15-18, 1995.

Invited Paper. "The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation: Towards a Working Agenda for the First Three Years with Emphasis on the U.S.-Mexican Border." Paper presented a Planning Meeting on Transboundary Issues, North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Canada, November 3-5, 1994.

Invited Paper. "Enforcing International Environmental Agreements: Lessons from the U.S.- Mexican Border." Paper given at conference on Enforcing International Environmental Agreements sponsored by the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, San Diego, September 29-October 2, 1993.

Invited Papers. "U.S.-Mexican Border Environmental Policies for Future Management"; "Binational Water Quality Problems in the Lower Colorado River Basin: An Overview." Both papers presented at the Workshop on Water Quality and Provision in the Tijuana/San Diego and Mexicali/Imperial Valley Regions sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the San Diego State University, San Diego, California, July 7-9, 1993.

Invited Paper. "Mexico's New Environmental Policy: An Assessment." Paper prepared for Conference on Mexico Looks to the Twenty-First Century: Change and Challenge. Tucson, Arizona, March 5, 1993.

"Environmentalists Abroad: Ethical and Policy Implications of Environmental Non- governmental Organizations." Paper presented at the International Studies Association conference in Acapulco, Mexico, March 25, 1993.

"Free Trade and the Border Environment: A Critical Assessment of Recent Proposals for Transboundary Environmental Reform." Paper presented at the 1992 Joint Meeting of the Association of Borderlands Scholars and the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, El Paso, Texas, February 19-22, 1992.

Invited Paper. "System Maintenance and Environmental Policy in Mexico: Salinas' Preemptive Strategy," XIII Coloquio de Antropologia y Historia Regional: Medio Ambiente y Sociedad en Mexico. Colegio de Michoacan, Zamora, Michoacan, August 6-9, 1991.

Invited Paper. "Environmental Progress under the La Paz Agreement." Conference on Covering the Pacific Environment. Mansfield Foundation. Bozeman, Montana, October 23, 1989.

"Mexico's Environmental Policy: A Moral Assessment," Second International Conference of the International Development Ethics Association, Merida, Mexico. July 3-8, l989.

Invited Paper. The IBWC, a Scholarly Perspective. Paper given at the Centennial Celebration of the International Boundary and Water Commission, El Paso, Texas--Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, June l, l989.

"International Environmental Politics: A Theoretical Review of the Literature." Paper given at the l989 Meeting of the International Studies Association, London, England, March 3l. with Dimitris Stevis.

"Environmental Mobilization in Mexico." Paper presented at the 3lst Annual Meeting of the Western Social Sciences Association, Albuquerque, N.M., April 26-29, l989.

"Technological and Environmental Implications of Mexico's Nuclear Policy." Paper presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Las Cruces, New Mexico, February 2-4, l989. with Dimitris Stevis.

"Internal and External Constraints on Opposition Effectiveness in Mexico's 1988 Elections: PAN." Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Ft. Collins, Colorado, February 3-6, l988.

"Mexican Environmental Policy: An Update." Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Houston, Texas, March 22-27, 1988.

"State and Local Influence in Transboundary Environmental Policy Making: The Case of Air Quality." Paper presented to panel on Sharing Power in Foreign Affairs: States and Provinces as International Actors at the 1986 Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 28-31.

"Development, Politics, and Environmental Policy: Lessons from the Mexican Case," Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Associa-tion, Eugene, Oregon, March 20-22, 1986.

"Recent Advances in U.S.-Mexico Environmental Diplomacy: Implications for Settling the Smelter Triangle Dispute," U.S.-Mexico Conference on Border Smelter Emissions, Tucson, Arizona, February 6-7, 1986.

"Managing the Border Environment: Issues, Advances, and Options," presented at "One Border, Two Nations," IV Symposium of Mexican and United States Universities, April 16-18, 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

"To Make Foreign Policy: Coalition Building in the El Chamizal Dispute,"International Studies Association-West, Los Angeles, October 24-26, 1985. with Alan Lamborn.

"A Comparative Analysis of Three Southwestern Indian Communities' Partic-ipation in Water Resources Decision Making," paper presented at a panel on Indian Political Participation at the 1985 meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, August 29-September 2, 1985. with Helen Ingram.

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Professional Activities:

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Editorial, Advisory and Administrative Boards:

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 1999-present.

Member, Editorial Board, Political Research Quarterly, 1996-2002.

Member, Editorial Board, International Boundary Studies, Kluwer Law International. Since 1997.

Americas Region Contributing Editor, Boundary and Security Bulletin, International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU), University of Durham, Durham, England. Since 1993.

Member, Editorial Board, Annual Editions: Third World (Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, Inc. Since 1987.

Member, International Advisory Board, BIOS (Border Information and Outreach Service), 1998-2000. BIOS (formerly INCITRA) is a Ford Foundation/Mott Foundation supported agency jointly operated by the Interhemispheric Resources Center, Albuquerque, NM and the Red Fronteriza de Salud y Medio Ambiente, Hermosillo, Sonora.

Member, Editorial Board, Bulletin of Municipal Foreign Policy, 1986-1991.

Member, Board of Trustees, Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona, 1995-1996.

Expert Working Group on Transboundary Issues, North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Quebec. 1995-1996.

Member, Advisory Board, Program in Public Policy and Border Environmental Affairs, Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, San Diego State University, San Diego, California. Since 1991.

Associate, International Transboundary Resources Center, University of New Mexico Law School, Albuquerque, NM. Since 1987.

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Professional Association Service:

Chair, Editor Search Committee, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Association of Borderlands Studies, 1999-2000.
Chair, Editor Search Committee, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Association of Borderlands Studies, 1994-95.
Past President, Association of Borderlands Scholars,1995-1996.
President, Association of Borderlands Scholars, 1993-95.
Vice-President, Association of Borderlands Scholars, 1991-93.
Section Organizer, Borderlands Studies Section, Western Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, April 21-24, 1993, Corpus Christi, Texas.
Nominations Committee, Western Social Science Association, 1993.
Section Organizer, Borderlands Studies Section, Western Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, April 22-25, 1992. Denver, Colorado.
Committee to Revise the Constitution, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 1989-90.
President, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 1987-88.
Member of the Advisory Council of the Association of Borderland Studies,1986-88.
Member, Article Awards Committee, Policy Studies Organization, 1986-87.

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Manuscript Reviews:

Journal of Environment and Development
Simon and Schuster (1998)
National Wildlife Federation
Political Research Quarterly
Comparative Politics
Latin American Research Review
1995 Conference on Comparative Management, Houston, TX, 11-15-95
International Environmental Affairs
MIT Press (1997, 1999)
Lynne Rienner Press (1994)
University of Arizona Press (1994)
Policy Studies Journal
The Central America Resources Center, Albuquerque, NM.
Environmental Management
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Publications, UCSD (1999)
Frontera Norte
Natural Resources Journal
Universities Council on Water Resources
University of Texas Press (1988)
Brooks-Cole Publishing Co. (1988)
Colegio De Mexico Press: Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Social Science Journal
Journal of Borderlands Studies
Houghton Mifflin (1986)
Policy Studies Journal
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
Polity
PROFMEX--The Consortium of U.S. Research Programs for Mexico. (1985)
Publius: The Journal of Federalism
Review of Latin American Studies
Water Resources Research

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Proposal Reviews (most recent):

Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research (SCERP), 1996.
State Of Idaho Research Foundation, 1996, 1995.
National Science Foundation, 1994.

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Panel Organizer (selected list):

Environmental Politics in Mexico. Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Colorado Springs, February 18-20, 1999.

Innovation and Reform in U.S.-Mexico Border Water Management. Annual Conference of the Borderland Studies Association. Albuquerque, N.M., April 23-25, 1997.

Democratization and the Environment in Latin America: Perspectives and Cases. 40th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Guadalajara, Mexico. April 16-20, 1997.

New Directions in North American Environmental Management. Annual Meeting of the Association of Borderlands Scholars, Oakland, CA, April 26, 29, 1995

NAFTA's Environmental Regime: A Critical Appraisal. Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 22, 1995.

Panel on State and Society in Latin American Environmental Policy at the XIV International Congress of Latin American Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 17-19, 1988.

Conference Organizer, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Fort Collins, Colorado, February 3-6, 1988.

Panel on Mexican Politics Today, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Fort Collins, Colorado, February 3-6, 1988.

Panel on the Politics of Presidential Succession in Mexico, 30th Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association, Association of Borderlands Scholars Section, Denver, Colorado, April 27-30, 1988.

Panel on the Military and Democracy in Latin America, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Fort Collins, CO, February 4-6, 1988.

Panel on The International Boundary and Water Commission: Retrospect and Prospect, Annual Meeting of the Association of Borderlands Scholars, El Paso, Texas, April 22-24, 1987.

Panel on Environmental Policy and Issues in Mexico, XIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, October 23-25, 1986, Boston, Massachusetts.

Panel on Environment and Natural Resources in Mexico and Central America, Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Estes Park, Colorado, April 3-6, 1986.

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Invited Lecturer:

Invited lecture on "Strengthening U.S.-Mexican Border Cooperation in the Bush Era," Michigan State University, Center for Latin American Studies, April 2-4, 2001.

Invited commentator, Colloquium on NAFT A, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, May 25, 2001.

Invited Moderator, Border Water Summit, El Paso, Texas. May 30, 2001. Day-long summit convened by Congressmen Silvestre Reyes, Texas 16th District and attended by some 400 water managers and specialists from the border region. Extensively covered by local area media in El Paso, Cd. Juarezl also served as a panelists for the session on "21 st Century Outlook: The Politics of Water in the Rio Grande River Basin."

Invited Speaker. Symposium on y Ahora Que: Implications of the Vicente Fox residency in Mexico. University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. November 9, 2000.

Invited Honorary Speaker, Inaugural Ceremony, Taiwan Institute of Technology, Yaolin,Taiwan. August 1, 2000.

Invited Paper, Minute 242 and Beyond. Symposium on Groundwater Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border, La Paz, Baja California Sur, February 7-9, 1999. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, U.C. Irvine School of Ecology, and the International Transboundary Resources Center, U. of New Mexico, School of Law.

Invited Paper, Decentralizing Environmental Policy on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Symposium on Shared Space: The U.S.-Mexico Environmental Future. Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies, University of California San Diego, February 4-6, 1999.

Invited Lecture, Managing Groundwater on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Annual Meeting of the International Boundary and Water Commission, San Diego, California. Apri1 20, 1999.

Invited Paper, Decentralization, Participation, and Environmental Policy in Hungary and, Mexico, Panel on Participatory Processes in Transboundary River Basin Management, International Conference on Participatory Processes in Water Management, a UNESCO Satellite Conference to the World Conference on Science, Budapest, Hungary, June 28-30, 1999. With Valerie J. Assetto.

Invited Workshop Participant and Panelist, Panel on Who Cares About Binationality and Twin Cities?", Ford Foundation Sponsored Workshop on U.S.-Mexico Border Twin Cities: Binational Interactions. University of Redlands, Redlands California, November 9-12,1999.

Invited presentation on Environmental Administration on the U.S.-Mexico Border, January 27, 1998. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.

Invited presentation on Institutional Aspects of Environmental Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border, First Annual Encuento on the Border Environment, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, March 7 - 8, 1998.

Invited talk on NAFTA and Environmental Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border, July 9,1998, Technical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.

Invited presentation at Conference on International River Basins under Stress, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, June 2-6. Co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the International Transboundary Resources Center, University of New Mexico.

Invited paper, "Managing Acute Water Scarcity on the U.S.-Mexico Border," Symposium on Coping with Water Scarcity in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo River Basin: Lessons to be Learned from the 1995-1996 Drought. Ford Foundation and the International Transboundary Resources Center, Cuernavaca, Mexico, November 9-12, 1997.

Reinventing Politics in North America: the NAFTA Institutions. A joint symposium sponsored by the North American Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. San Antonio, Texas, June 7, 1996.

Environmental Sustainability on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Symposium organized by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and the Ford Foundation, Guaymas, (Sonora) Mexico, March 1-3, 1996.

Fourth Annual Conference of the North American Environmental Assessment Group, Institute on Environmental Governance, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 3-5, 1994.

Transboundary Environmental Protection. Planning Meeting of the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (NACEC), Montreal, Quebec, November 3-4, 1994.

Workshop on Health and Hazardous Waste Issues Related to the U.S.-Mexico Border, University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, August 27-29, 1994, Tucson, Arizona.

The Impacts of NAFTA. A Research Workshop sponsored by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, August 12-16, 1994.

America and Mexico. 34th Strategy for Peace Conference, The Stanley Foundation. Airlie House, Virginia, October 14-16, 1993.

Trade and Environment Study Group, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY, May 6, 1993.

Borders and Water: A Forum on North American Water Issues. The North American Institute. Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 26, 1992.

North American Environmental Assessment III, sponsored by the Institute on Canada and the United States, Dartmouth College and the Johnson Foundation. A Wingspread Conference, Racine, WI, February 28-March 1, 1992.

29th Annual International Affairs Symposium on the Changing Face of International Development. Presentation on The Contemporary Debate on Environment and Development. Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, May 6-9, 1991.

Trilateral Studies Symposium, Looking Towards the New Frontier: North American Market Integration? Panel on Environment. The Kellogg Center, Michigan State University, Lansing Michigan, May 23-24, 1991.

Seminar on Regional Water Resource Policy and Management. Presentation Issues in U.S.- Mexico Water Management and Institutions. School of Natural Resources and the Great Lakes Commission. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. November 1989/1991.

International Boundary and Water Commission, International Symposium: A Century of Cooperation. The International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, An Academic Perspective. El Paso, Texas and Cd. Juarez, Mexico. May 3l-June 2, l989.

Mansfield Center for Public Affairs, Conference on Covering the Pacific Environment. Presentation on the Emerging Environmental Regulatory Regime on the U.S. Mexico Border Since the La Paz Agreement. Bozeman, Montana, October 22-25, l989.

Simpson Lecturer, University of Wyoming, Department of Political Science. Topic: The Role of Minority Parties in the Mexican Election. April 7, 1988. Honorarium.

Colegio de Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico. Topic: The El Chamizal Dispute: A Revisionist Interpretation. July 29, 1987.

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Other:

Consultant. The Columbian Quincentennial. Wyoming Council on the Humanities and Demorest Lecture Series, Casper College, Casper, Wyoming. February 28, 1991.

Invited Participant. Johnson Foundation, Wingspread Conference on Environment and Development: The Outlook for U.S.-Mexican Relations. Racine, Wisconsin, May 1-3, 1988. Co-sponsored by the Overseas Development Council and the Conservation Foundation.

Expert witness. Hearing before the Rio Arriba County Commission. Testimony in support of "Proposed Amendments to the Rio Arriba County Land Subdivision Regulations," May 14, 1986, Rio Arriba County Court-house, Espanola, New Mexico.

Participant, Survey of Scholars, sponsored by the Office of Scholarly Communications and the American Political Science Association, November 8, 1985.

Contributor to the Fitzgibbon-Johnson Image Index, 1995/1985, on the Changing Scholarly Image of Democracy in Latin America, published in the Latin American Research Review (1996 and 1986).

Organizer of presentation in conjunction with the Guest Scholars Committee by Dr. Douglas L. Murray on the topic "Pesticides, Politics, and Revolution in Nicaragua, April 22, 1985.

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Courses Taught:

Capstone Seminar/Political Science: Environmental Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Sociologia Politica [El Colegio de Sonora]
Comparative Environmental Politics (Graduate Seminar)
Political Economy of Development and Change (Graduate Seminar).
Comparative Political Systems (Graduate Seminar).
Politics of Growth and the Environment (Graduate Seminar).
Comparative Politics
Politics of Developing Nations
Comparative Latin American Politics
Politics of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
Mexican Government and Political Economy
-Politics and Society Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

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Dissertations Directed:

Carvalho, Georgia, The Evolution of Amazon Policy in Brazil Since 1988: A Case Study of the Gran Carajas Project. Colorado State University, 1997.

Shu, Hsu-Hsiang, Water Resources Protection in Taiwan: A Case Study of the Taipei Water Management Commission. Colorado State University, 1994.

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Committee Assignments, Colorado State University:

Chair, Latin American Studies Program, Office of International Education, CSU, 1998-2002, 1994-1997; 1991-1992; l989-90; l985-87, 1990-93, 1995-97

Board Member, Center for Applied Studies in American Ethnicity, 1993-96.

Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Political Science, CSU, 1992-96.

CLA Curriculum Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 1992-96. Representing Political Science Department and the Center for Applied Studies in American Ethnicity.

John Stern Distinguished Researcher Award Selection Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 1994-1996.
University Task Force for International Studies Degrees, Office of the Associate Provost, 1993-94.

President's Committee to Draft White Paper on Environmental Studies and Research at Colorado State University. July-August, 1992.

Executive Committee, Department of Political Science, CSU, 1991-92; 1994-95.

Research/Scholarly Excellence Recommendation Committee, Colorado State University, Office of Vice-President for Research, 1991.

Study Abroad Program Director Search Committee, Colorado State University, 1990.

University Research Committee, Faculty Council, Colorado State University, l989-91.

International Programs Committee, Faculty Council, Colorado State University, 1987-1989.

Member, Latin American Studies Program Advisory Board, 1992-97.

Black Studies Director Search Committee, Colorado State University, l989.

Self-Study Committee, Department of Political Science, CSU, 1987-88

Graduate Program Coordinator and Chair, Graduate Committee, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, 1987-1990.

Member, Advisory Board, Hispano-American Studies Center, CSU, 1985-94.

Chair, Hispano-American Studies Program, Colorado State University, 1987-1989.

Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Political Science, CSU, 1983-86.

Search Committee for the Department Chair, Department of Political Science, CSU, 1986-87.

Personnel Search Committee, Public Law, Department of Political Science, CSU, 1986-87.

Undergraduate Committee, Department of Political Science, CSU, 1986-87.

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences College Scholarship Committee, CSU, 1984-87.

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Department Code, Department of Political Science, CSU, 1985-87.

Division Coordinator, United Way Campaign, 1985-86, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (supervising 13 Unit Coordinators within the College).

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Honors:

Jack E. Cermack Advising Award, Colorado State University, 2002. Given for excellence in graduate advising.
Dictionary of International Biography, 23rd Edition, 1993.
Who's Who in the West, 22nd Edition, l989.
Faculty Service Award, 1987-1988. Hispanic Student Services, CSU.
Outstanding Young Man of America Award, Junior Chamber of Commerce, l982.

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Professional Memberships:

International Studies Association
Policy Studies Association
Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies
Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies
Western Political Science Association
American Political Science Association
Latin American Studies Association
Western Social Science Association
Association of Borderlands Scholars

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References (additional references on request):

Dr Roderic Ai camp, Professor, department of Government, Claremont Mc Kenna College, 500 E. Ninth Street, Claremont, CA 91711. Phone: 909-607-4138. Email: roderic.camp@claremontmackenna.edu

Dr. R. Kenneth Godwin, Rausch Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Fretwell 440, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223. Email: godwink@email,uncc.edu

Dr. Phil Kelly, Professor, department of Social Sciences, Emporia State University, 1200 Commercial, Emporia, KS 66801-5087. Phone: 316-341-5238. Email: kellyphi@emporia.edu

Dr. Steve Ropp, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wyoming, laramie, WY 82072. Phone: 307-766-6517. Email: Sropp@uwyo.edu

Dr. Edward J. Williams, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 (602-621-7600). 556 N. Dodge Ave., Tucson, AZ (602-881-6413). email: edwardw@u.arizona.edu

Dr. Helen Ingram, Warmington Chair, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine. 202 Social Ecology I. Irvine, California 92697. Phone: 714-824-2056; FAX: 714- 824-2056. email: hingram@uci.edu

Dr. Scott Whiteford, Director, Center for Latin American Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 48824. Tel. (517) 353-1690. Email: whitefo1@pilot.msu.edu

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