Jonathan C. Brown is professor emeritus in history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has researched and written books on Latin American colonial history, Argentina’s economic expansion of the early nineteenth century, the beginnings of the Mexican oil industry, a brief history of Argentina, and the Cuban Revolution of the 1960s.

Brown has fashioned a strong and nuanced study on the key topic of how weak states wrestle with more powerful global actors—and on the often-neglected centrality of personality in international relations.

Jonathan C. Brown is professor emeritus in history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has researched and written books on Latin American colonial history, Argentina’s economic expansion of the early nineteenth century, the beginnings of the Mexican oil industry, a brief history of Argentina, and the Cuban Revolution of the 1960s.

Brown has fashioned a strong and nuanced study on the key topic of how weak states wrestle with more powerful global actors—and on the often-neglected centrality of personality in international relations.

Jonathan C. Brown is professor emeritus in history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has researched and written books on Latin American colonial history, Argentina’s economic expansion of the early nineteenth century, the beginnings of the Mexican oil industry, a brief history of Argentina, and the Cuban Revolution of the 1960s.

Brown has fashioned a strong and nuanced study on the key topic of how weak states wrestle with more powerful global actors—and on the often-neglected centrality of personality in international relations.