Laura Tedesco, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
International Relations
Education
Ph.D., University of Warwick, UK
Research Interests
Laura Tedesco, Ph.D. Warwick University, is Associate Professor in Political Science. She works on political leadership in Latin America.
Her last book, authored with Rut Diamint (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires) was published by Buenos Aires University in 2019: (EUDEBA, 2019)
From 2016, she coordinates a research project about future political scenarios in
Cuba. Her last article has been published by Revista Deusto de Derechos Humanos en
junio de 2020, titulado
Courses
Introduction to International Politics
Crisis of Leadership
Introduction to Latin American Politics
Key Contemporary Crisis: COVID-19
Global Politics
Publications and Media Placements
Books
2019 Dem贸cratas o Usurpadores. Un an谩lisis de l铆deres sudamericanos (EUDEBA, Editorial de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina).
2015 Latin America麓s Leaders with Rut Diamint (ZED Books: London).
2013 Democratizar a los pol铆ticos. Un estudio sobre l铆deres latinoamericanos, edited with Rut Diamint, Preface by Professor Sergio Fabbrini (Los Libros de la Catarata, Madrid)
2011 Alfons铆n. De la esperanza a la desilusi贸n (Buenos Aires: del Nuevo Extremo)
2004 The state of democracy in Latin America. Post-Transitional Conflicts in Argentina and Chile, co-authored with Jonathan Barton (London: Routledge).
1999 Democracy in Argentina. Hope and Disillusion (London: Frank Cass)
Peer Review Articles
2020 Tedesco, Laura and Diamint, Rut. 2020. Behind Covid-19: Deepening poverty in Cuba, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Special Issue, December, vol. 39, S1: 75-78.
2020 Tedesco, Laura and Rut Diamint. 2020. Violaci贸n de los derechos humanos en Cuba: 驴Baja o alta intensidad? Deusto Journal of Human Rights, n. 5: 155-181.
2019 Diamint, Rut and Tedesco, Laura. 2019. A new generation of peace missions? Exploring the Colombian case, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol 20 (3) 525-555.
2018 Diamint, Rut and Tedesco, Laura. 2018. Uncertainties and paradoxes about Cuba鈥檚 future, International Relations and Diplomacy, vol 6 (7) July, 390-395.
2018 De militares a gerentes. Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias en Cuba, Nueva Sociedad 278, November-December.
2017 Tedesco, Laura and Diamint, Rut. 2017. La incertidumbre cubana, Foreign Affairs Latinoam茅rica, October-December: 19-26.