Enrique Desmond Arias

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, The University of Wisconsin Madison WI

M.A., Political Science, The University of Wisconsin Madison WI

B.A., Political Science, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD

Books

Arias, E. D., & Grasaffi, T. (2021). Cocaine:  From Coca Fields to the Streets. Duke University Press.

Arias, E. D. (2017). Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin American and the Caribbean. New York, Cambridge University Press.

Arias, E. D., & Muggar, R. (2013). Intervenciones: Las Lecciones Aprendidas. (p. 195-213). New York, United Nations Development Program.

Arias, E. D. (2011). Introductory Handbook on Policing Urban Space. (p. 153). New York, United Nations.

Arias, E. D., & Goldstein, D. (2010). Violent Democracy in Latin America: Toward an Interdisciplinary Reconceptualization. Durham, Duke University Press.

Arias, E. D. (2006). Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security.. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.

Journal Articles

Arias, E. D., & Duica Amaya, L. (2022). Advocacy, Misdirection, Protests, and Exit:  Strategies of Aspiration and Anxiety amid Crime and Conflict in Putumayo. Latin American Politics and Society, 1-24.

Arias, E. D. (2020). How Criminals Govern. 119(814).

Antillano, A., Arias, E. D., & Zubillaga, V. (2020). Violence and territorial order in Caracas, Venezuela. Political. Geography, 82.

Arias, E. D. (2019). Social Responses to Criminal Governance in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Kingston, and Medellín. Latin American Research Review, 54(1). 165-180.

Arias, E. D. (2018). Criminal Organizations and the Policymaking Process. Global Crime, 19(3-4). 339-361.

Arias, E. D., & Barnes, N. (2017). Crime and Plural Orders in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Current Sociology, 63(3). 448-465.

Arias, E. D. (2014). Violence, Citizenship, and Religion in a Rio de Janeiro Favela. Latin American Research Review, Special Issue. 149-167.

Arias, E. D., & Ungar, M. (2013). La vigilancia comunitaria y la crisis de seguridad ciudadana en Latinoamérica (translation of Arias and Ungar 2009 "Community Policing and Latin America's Citizen Security Crisis."). Revista Estudios Socio-Jurídicos, 15(1). 19-52.

Arias, E. D. (2013). The Impacts of Differential Armed Dominance of Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Studies in Comparative International Development, 48. 263-284.

Fernandez de Castro, R., Arias, E. D., & Santamaria, G. (2013). Violencia en México: Mejor Samba que Cumbia. Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, 13(1). 10-15.

Alves, M. C., & Arias, E. D. (2012). Understanding the Fica Vivo Program. Policing and Society, 22(1). 101-113.

Ungar, M., & Arias, E. D. (Eds.). (2012). Community Policing in Latin America: Innovations and Challenges (issue edited by Ungar, M and Arias, E. D.). Policing and Society, 22(1).

Ungar, M., & Arias, E. D. (2012). Reassessing Community Oriented Policing in Latin America. Policing and Society, 22(1). 1-13.

Arias, E. D. (2012). The 2010 Emergency and Party Politics in Kingston, Jamaica. ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Winter. 54-56.

Arias, E. D., & Salas, J. L. (Eds.). (2012). Violencia en Barrios en América Latina: Sus Determinantes y Políticas de Intervención (issue edited by Arias, E. D. and Salas, J). Revista INVI, 76.

Arias, E. D., & Ungar, M. (2009). Community Policing and Latin America's Citizen Security Crisis. Comparative Politics , 41(4). 409-430.

Arias, E. D. (2009). Dispatches from the Field: Milícias and Police Corruption in Rio de Janeiro. Americas Quarterly, 3(2). 90-93.

Arias, E. D. (2007). Trouble en Route: Drug Trafficking and Clientelism in Rio de Janeiro Shantytowns. Qualitative Sociology, 30(1). 427-445.

Auyero, J., & Joseph, L. (Eds.). Arias, E. D. (2007). Routing Conflict: Organized Violence and Clientelism in Rio de Janeiro. Political Ethnography, 110-134.

Arias, E. D. (2006). The Dynamics of Criminal Governance: Networks and Social Order in Rio de Janeiro. Journal of Latin American Studies, 38(2). 293-325.

Arias, E. D., & Rodrigues, C. D. (2006). The Myth of Personal Security: A Discursive Model of Local level Legitimation in Rio’s Favelas. Latin American Politics and Society, 48(4). 53-81.

Arias, E. D. (2004). Faith in our Neighbors: Networks and Social Order in Three Brazilian Favelas. Latin American Politics and Society, 46(1). 1-38.

Book Chapters

Arias, E. D. (2022). Fragility and Pernicious Resilience in Urban Latin America and the Caribbean. In Glass, M., Seybolt, T. B., & Williams, P. (Eds.), Urban Violence, Resilience and Security: Government Responses in the Global South Edward Elgar.

Arias, E. D. (2022). Latin American and Caribbean Drug Trafficking Groups.. In Gootenberg, P. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook on Global Drug History Oxford University Press.

(2021). Introduction:  The Moral Economy of the Cocaine Trade. Cocaine: From Coca Fields to the Streets Duke University Press.

Arias, E. D., & Grisaffi, T. (2021). Introduction:  The Moral Economy of the Cocaine Trade. Cocaine: From Coca Fields to the Streets Duke University Press.

Arias, E. D., & Hussain, N. (2017). Organized Crime and Terrorism. In LaFree, G., & Freilich, J. D. (Eds.), The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism (pp. 373-384). Malden. John Wiley and Sons.

Arias, E. D., & Marston, K. (2017). Selective Blindness: Criminal Visibility and Violence in Rio de Janeiro and Kingston. In Santamaria, G., & Carey Jr, D. (Eds.), Violence and Crime in Latin America: Representations and Politics (pp. 219-239). Norma. University of Oklahoma Press.

Arias, E. D. (2015). Qualitative Research in Comparative Context: Understanding Crime and Politics in Brazilian Shantytowns. In Palacios, W., & Miller, J. (Eds.), Qualitative Research in Criminology, Advances in Criminology vol. 20 (pp. 193-213). New Brunswick. Transaction Publishers.

Arias, E. D. (2015). Managing Researcher Safety. In Dingwall, R., & McDonnell, M. B. (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Research Management (pp. 173-184). London. Sage Publications.

Arias, E. D. (2014). Gang Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Hazen, J., & Rodgers, D. (Eds.), Global Gangs: Street Violence Across the World (pp. 237-254). Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press.

Arias, E. D., & Escobar, G. (2013). Policing Terrorism in Colombia. In Shoham, S. G., & Freilich, J. D. (Eds.), Policing and Preventing Terrorism Around the Globe, Israel Studies in Criminology (pp. 39-60). Whitby. De Sitter.

Arias, E. D. (2011). State Power and Central American Maras: A Cross-National Comparison. In Bruneau, T., Dammert, L., & Giraldo, J. (Eds.), The Maras and Security Challenges in Central America (pp. 123-136). Austin. University of Texas Press.

Arias, E. D. (2011). Drug Cartels: Neither Holy, nor Roman, nor and Empire (Revised). In Natarajan, M. (Ed.), Introduction to International Criminal Justice (pp. 406-416). New York. Cambridge University Press.

Arias, E. D., & Goldstein, D. (2010). Violent Pluralism: Understanding the “New Democracies" of Latin America. In Arias, E. D., & Goldstein, D. (Eds.), Violent Democracy in Latin America: Towards an Interdisciplinary Reconceptualization (pp. 1-34). Durham. Duke University Press.

Arias, E. D. (2010). Understanding Criminal Networks, Political Order, and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. In Clunan, A., & Trinkunas, H. (Eds.), Ungoverned Spaces: Alternatives to State Authority in an Era of Softened Sovereignty (pp. 115-135). Stanford. Stanford University Press.

Arias, E. D. (2010). Understanding Violent Pluralism. In Arias, E. D., & Goldstein, D. (Eds.), Violent Democracy in Latin America: Towards and Interdisciplinary Reconceptualization (pp. 242-264). Durham. Duke University Press.

Arias, E. D. (2009). Ethnography and the Study of Latin American Politics: An Agenda for Research. In Schatz, E. (Ed.), Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Politics (pp. 239-254). Chicago. University of Chicago Press.

Arias, E. D. (2006). Formal Freedoms, Informal Violence: Academic Freedom and Human Rights in Latin America. In Gerstman, E., & Streb, M. (Eds.), Academic Freedom at the Dawn of a New Century: How Terrorism, Governments, and Culture Wars Impact Free Speech at Universities at Home and Abroad (pp. 130-153). Stanford. Stanford University Press.

Arias, E. D. (2005). Drug Cartels: Neither Holy, nor Roman, nor and Empire. In Natarajan, M. (Ed.), Introduction to International Criminal Justice (pp. 406-416). New York. McGraw Hill Publisher.

Presentations

Arias, E. D. (2017, June 30). Crime in the Caribbean Basin. Global Trends: A Regional Dialogue on the English Speaking Caribbean. Georgetown, Guyana: Conflict Prevent and Peace Forum of the Social Science Research Council on behalf of the United Nations.

Arias, E. D. (2017, May 31). . Served as a discussant on USAID funded gang report at Florida International University’s Washington DC offices.

Arias, E. D. (2017, April 30). The Legitimacy of Illicit Markets in Rio de Janeiro, Medellín, and Kingston. Latin American Studies Association annual conference. Lima, Perú

Arias, E. D. (2017, December 31). . Delivered three presentations at meeting sponsored by the Caja Andina de Fomento (Andean Development Bank) on violence in Venezuela. Two of the talks were presentations to different groups of policy makers on homicide control strategies for different groups of policymakers. One of the talks was a presentation that served as the concluding remarks summarizing discussions at the meeting. Caracas, Venezuela

Arias, E. D. (2017, May 31). Social Responses to Criminal Governance in Rio de Janeiro, Kingston, and Medellín. Plenary Panel. Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference. Lima, Perú

Arias, E. D. (2017, May 31). Criminal Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean. University of Notre Dame: Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

Arias, E. D. (2016, June 30). Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean. University of Florida: Center for Latin American Studies.

Arias, E. D. (2016, November 30). Criminal Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Plenary Panel. 21st Century Cities: Violence and Vulnerabilities. University of Pittsburgh

Arias, E. D. (2016, May 31). Non-State Actors, Party Politics, and Violence in Kingston, Jamaica. Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Chicago, IL

Arias, E. D. (2016, April 30). Policy Process Amid Armed Organizations. Criminal Actors in the Americas Mini-Conference. University of Wisconsin- Madison

Arias, E. D. (2016, March 31). Criminal Enterprises and Security in Latin America and the Caribbean. : Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Science Po).

Arias, E. D., & Grisaffi, T. (2016, May 31). Cocaine’s Products. Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. New York, NY

Arias, E. D., & Grisaffi, T. (2016, July 31). Cocaine’s Products. University College London: Institute for Latin American Studies.

Arias, E. D. (2016, June 30). Clientelism and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean. Pantheon-Sorbonne: Keynote Presentation. University of Paris 1.

Arias, E. D. (2015, June 30). International Aid and Local-Level Armed Structures in Kingston, Jamaica: How Aid Can Support or Undermine Gang Control of Neighborhoods?. Transnational Clientelism Conference. Latinamerika-Institute, Freie Universität Berlin

Arias, E. D. (2015, May 31). Neighborhood Level Political, Gang Structures, and Popular Incorporation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. San Juan, PR

Arias, E. D. (2015, June 30). . Presentation on criminal organizations and governance in post-conflict territories. Greentree Conference Center: United Nations University.

Arias, E. D. (2015, August 31). Criminal Organizations and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit. Frei Universität Berlin: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 700.

Arias, E. D. (2015, October 31). . Key Note Address for conference on “The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela.” Presentation delivered at conference on violence in Venezuela at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research. Roger Thayer Stone Center, Tulane University

Arias, E. D. (2014, October 31). . Presentation on Crime in Brazil. : Inter-American Dialogue.

Arias, E. D. (2014, May 31). Rethinking Order and Violence. Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Chicago, IL

Arias, E. D. (2014, February 28). Armed Actors and Governance in Latin American and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank

Arias, E. D. (2013, April 30). Religion and Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Kingston, Jamaica. Boston University

Arias, E. D. (2013, June 30). Criminal Actors and Governance in Kingston, Jamaica and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Washington, DC

Arias, E. D. (2013, October 31). Armed Actors and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Arias, E. D. (2013, December 31). Armed Actors and Governance in Rio de Janeiro. Presentation at conference on violence in Latin America. Carleton University, Ottawa

Arias, E. D. (2013, February 28). Politics and Armed Groups in Rio de Janeiro. : Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida.

Arias, E. D. (2013, March 31). The Impact of Organized Crime on Democratic Governance: Neighborhood-Level Politics in Kingston, Medellin, and Rio de Janeiro. Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University

Arias, E. D. (2012, April 30). Drugs and Other Wars: Violence in Jamaica Since 1970. Drug Wars in the Americas: Looking Back, Looking Ahead. Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University.

Arias, E. D., & Bobea, L. (2012, May 31). Gaining Ground: The Reconfiguration of the State by Criminal Violence in Brazil and the Caribbean. Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco, CA

Arias, E. D. (2012, April 30). Community Based Organizations and Responses to Transnational Drug Trafficking. Expert Meeting on the Impact of Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime on Governance Security and Development. West Africa: Open Society Foundation and the Kofi Annan Foundation.

Arias, E. D. (2011, May 31). Religion and Armed Groups in Three Latin American Cities. Religion, Social Movements, and Progressive Reform in Latin America. Boston, Massachusetts: Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University.

Arias, E. D. (2011, October 31). Actores armados y gobernabilidad en Río de Janeiro, Medellín y Kingston [Armed Actors and Governability in Rio de Janeiro, Medellín, and Kingston. Violencia en Barrios en América Latina: Sus Determinantes y Políticas de Intervención [Neighborhood Violence in Latin America: Determinants and Policy Responses. Santiago, Chile: University of Chile.

Arias, E. D. (2011, April 30). 'The Only Risk is Wanting to Stay:’ Violence and the Performance of Sovereignty in Medellin Colombia. Poverty and Marginality in the Americas: An Ethnography Workshop. Austin, TX: Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, the University of Texas at Austin.

Arias, E. D. (2011, April 30). Politics, Social Transformation, and Responses to Violence in Rio de Janeiro. Violent Cities: Challenges of Democracy, Development, and Governance in the Global South. Providence, Rhode Island: Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.

Arias, E. D. (2010, October 31). Gangs and Politics in Kingston Jamaica and Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Toronto, Canada

Arias, E. D. (2010, May 31). Public Safety and the Contemporary Brazilian State. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Arias, E. D. (2010, September 30). Urban Politics and Violence in Kingston, Jamaica and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington, DC

Arias, E. D. (2010, May 31). Territorialidad y Violencia en Rio de Janeiro, Brasil y Kingston, Jamaica. Medellín, Colombia: Corporación Pro-Democracia.

Arias, E. D. (2009, November 30). Public Safety and the Contemporary Brazilian State. The Brazilian State: Paths and Prospects of Dirigisme and Liberalization. : Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Arias, E. D. (2009, October 31). The Structure of Criminal Organizations in Kingston, Jamaica and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Instability in Mexico, Colombia, and the Caribbean: Implications for US National Security. : Matthew B. Ridgeway Center for International Security Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

Arias, E. D. (2009, September 30). Urban Policing in Middle and Lower Income Countries. UNODC / UNHABITAT Expert Meeting on Urban Public Safety. ECOWAS Conference Center, Abuja, Nigeria

Arias, E. D. (2009, June 30). Politics and Sub-National Authoritarianism in Rio de Janeiro. Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Arias, E. D. (2009, May 31). Gangs in Rio de Janeiro. Global Gangs at the Graduate Institute of International and Developmental Studies. Geneva, Switzerland

Arias, E. D. (2009, January 31). Grupos Armados e Política no Rio de Janeiro. Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro

Arias, E. D. (2009, January 31). Police Reform and Policy Making in Brazil. Invited Lecture at the Centro de Estudos de Segurança Pública e Criminologia (CESEC). Universidade Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Arias, E. D. (2008, June 30). Understanding Criminal Networks, Political Order, and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nucleo de Estudos de Instituições Coercitivas. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil

Arias, E. D., Escobar, G., & Llorente, M. V. (2008, September 30). Understanding Colombia's Paramilitary Demobilization: The Impact of State Efforts to Control Right Wing Violence in Colombia since 2002. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Toronto, ON

Arias, E. D., Escobar, G., & Llorente, M. V. (2008, December 31). Understanding Colombia's Paramilitary Demobilization: The Impact of State Efforts to Control Right Wing Violence in Colombia since 2002. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Boston, MA

Arias, E. D. (2008, May 31). Police Reform and Policy Making in Brazil. Invited Lecture at the Graduate Program in Public Policy, Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro

Arias, E. D. (2008, March 31). Brazil in Comparative Perspective. Panel Presentation at conference on violence in Latin America. Princeton University

Arias, E. D. (2008, March 31). Brazilian Security in Comparative Perspective. Plenary Panel Presentation at Brazilian Studies Association Meeting. New Orleans, LA

Arias, E. D. (2007, September 30). Rashomon in a Brazilian Shantytown: The Problem of Data Reliability in the Ethnographic Research of Civil Violence. American Political Science Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois

Arias, E. D. (2007, December 31). . Seminar Panels on policing and finance in Brazil and Latin America. : Columbia University Brazil.

Arias, E. D. (2007, December 31). Operation Ceasefire and its Descendants: Analyzing the Implementation of Community Police Reform Programs in Boston, Belo Horizonte, and Rio de Janeiro. Latin American Studies Association Conference. Montreal, Canada

Arias, E. D. (2007, August 31). Violent Pluralism: Criminal Networks, Political Order, and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ungoverned Spaces Conference. Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School.

Arias, E. D. (2007, April 30). . Discussant of Invited Lecture by Mercedes Hinton. Columbia University

Arias, E. D. (2007, May 31). The Militarization of Social Policy. Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Arias, E. D., & Ungar, M. (2006, September 30). Addressing Civic Violence in New Democracies: A Comparative Analysis of Efforts to Establish Citizen Security through Police Reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Honduras. American Political Science Association Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Arias, E. D. (2006, April 30). Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro. Center for Public Safety and Justice, University of the West Indies, Mona

Arias, E. D. (2006, April 30). Violence and Political Life in Latin America: Reassessing Democratization. Latin American Studies Association Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Arias, E. D. (2006, March 31). The Problem of Violence in Rio de Janeiro. Seminar on Economic, Political and Social Development of Brazil. : Columbia University.

Arias, E. D., & Collins, J. (2005, December 31). Policing the Rocinha and Interpolating the Police: Security and the Search for Citizenship in Working Class Neighborhoods in Neoliberal Brazil. Inequalities in Latin America: Politics and Culture conference. : SUNY- Stony Brook.

Arias, E. D. (2005, June 30). O Mito da Segurança Pessoal. : Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Arias, E. D. (2005, June 30). Trouble en Route: Comparing the Criminal Violence in Rio de Janeiro Brazil and Kingston Jamaica, 1964 to Present. Caribbean Studies Association Conference. Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic

Arias, E. D. (2005, March 31). Caught Between the Sea and the Stars: Crime, Politics, and Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cornell University: Latin American Studies Program.

Arias, E. D. (2004, October 31). The Dynamics of Criminal Governance: Networks and Social Order in Rio de Janeiro. Latin American Studies Association Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada

Arias, E. D. (2004, April 30). City of Lights, City of Lead: Criminal Networks and Governance in Rio de Janeiro. : Foro Latinoamericano, Carleton College.

Arias, E. D. (2004, June 30). Connecting the Sea and the Stars: The Politics of Drug Trafficking in Brazil and Latin America. The Seventh Biennial Conference: International Perspectives on Crime, Justice and Public Order. Bucharest, Romania

Arias, E. D. (2004, August 31). Entre o Ceu e o Mar: O Trafico de Drogas e a Política no Rio de Janeiro. : Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Arias, E. D. (2003, October 31). The Infrastructure of Criminal Governance. : Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University.

Arias, E. D. (2003, December 31). The Infrastructure of Criminal Governance: Illegal Networks and Public Order in Rio de Janeiro. Latin American Studies Association Conference. Dallas, Texas

Arias, E. D. (2003, April 30). Faith in Our Neighbors: Networks and Social Mobilization in Three Rio Favelas. Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Brazil.

Arias, E. D. (2003, April 30). Democracy and Violence in Brazil. Roundtable Panel, Watson Institute for International Studies.

Arias, E. D. (2002, December 31). The Infrastructure of Criminal Governance. : Bildner Center for Latin American Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Arias, E. D. (2002, December 31). The Trouble with Social Capital: Networks and Criminality in Rio de Janeiro. American Political Science Association Conference. Boston, Massachusetts

Arias, E. D., & Rodrigues, C. D. (2001, December 31). The Role of Criminals in Informal Dispute Resolution in Rio’s Favelas. Latin American Studies Association Conference. Washington, D.C.

Arias, E. D. (2001, December 31). Disruptive Networks and Local Level State Authority in Brazil. International Studies Association Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois

Arias, E. D. (2001, December 31). Violent Networks: Police, Politics, and Criminals in Rio de Janeiro. Latin American Studies Association Conference. Washington, DC

Arias, E. D. (2001, December 31). . Session leader for panel on “Rape as a War Crime,” and discussant at writing workshop. : MacArthur Consortium Meeting on Human Rights, Madison.

Arias, E. D. (2000, December 31). Building Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro: State And NGO Efforts to Reduce Violence and Guarantee Citizenship Rights. Conference on the Changing Role of Law in Emerging Markets and New Democracies. University of Wisconsin- Madison

Arias, E. D. (2000, December 31). Building Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro: State And NGO Efforts to Reduce Violence and Guarantee Citizenship Rights. Latin American Studies Association Conference. Miami, Florida

Arias, E. D. (2000, December 31). Crime, Capital, and Corruption: Networks and Social Capital in Brazil. Third World Studies Association. Omaha, Nebraska

Arias, E. D. (1999, December 31). Architecture of Violence / Architecture of Peace: Urban Restructuring and the Reduction of Violence in Rio de Janeiro. American Political Science Association Conference. Atlanta, GA

Arias, E. D. (1999, December 31). Citizenship and Visibility: Promoting Political Stability in Rio’s Favelas. Wisconsin Political Science Association Conference. University of Wisconsin- Whitewater

Arias, E. D. (1999, December 31). Shantytown Violence in Rio de Janeiro: A Historical-Structural Perspective on State Violence in Criminality in Three Neighborhoods. American Political Science Association Conference. Atlanta, GA

Arias, E. D. (1998, December 31). Crime, Violence, and Democracy: Community Level Strategies to Guarantee Democratic Order in Impoverished Neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro. American Political Science Association Conference. Boston, MA

Arias, E. D. (1997, December 31). The Impact of the Organization of Favelas in Rio de Janeiro Upon Politics in Brazil: A Dialectical Approach to Democratization. Latin American Studies Association Conference. Guadalajara, Mexico

Other Scholarly Works

Reviews

Arias, E. D. (2011,January 1). Review:  Inside Insurgency:  Violence, Civilians, and Revolutionary Group Behavior. Comparative Political Studies.

Arias, E. D. (2011,January 1). Review:  Voting Amid Violence:  Electoral Democracy in Colombia. Perspectives on Politics.

Arias, E. D. (2010,January 1). Review:  Insurgent Citizenship:  Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil. Social History.

Arias, E. D. (2008,January 1). Review: The Judicial Response to Political Killings in Latin America:  Inequality and the Rule of Law. Law and Politics Book Review.

Arias, E. D. (2007,January 1). Review:  The Unpast:  Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1945-2000. Journal of Latin American Studies.

Arias, E. D. (2006,January 1). Review:  Lucia:  Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer’s Woman. Qualitative Sociology.

Arias, E. D. (2006,January 1). Review:  After Life: An Ethnographic Novel. Luso-Brazilian Review.

Arias, E. D. (2004,January 1). Book Review:  Blackness without Ethnicity:  Constructing Race in Brazil . Latin American Politics and Society .

Arias, E. D. (2004,January 1). Book Review:   Laughter out of Place:  Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown. Latin American Politics and Society .

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