John Crabtree is a Research Associate at the Centre for Latin
American
Studies at the University of Oxford and a senior member of Saint
Antony's
College.
He has written widely on the politics of the Andean countries,
principally
Peru and Bolivia. His books include 'The Great Tin Crash: Bolivia
and the
World Tin Market' (Latin America Bureau 1987); 'Peru under Garcia:
An
Opportunity Lost' (Macmillan 1992); 'Fujimori's Peru: the Political
Economy', coedited with Jim Thomas (ILAS 1998); 'Towards Democratic
Viability: the Bolivian Experience', co-edited with Laurence
Whitehead
(Palgrave 2002); 'Peru' (Oxfam 2003); and 'Patterns of Protest:
Politics and
Social movements in Bolivia' (Latin America Bureau 2005).
Several of these titles have been translated into Spanish and
published in
Latin America. His latest title is 'Making Institutions Work:
Democracy,
Development and Inequality in Peru since 1980' (University of
London,
forthcoming 2006). He has also published numerous articles and
monologues
on Latin American politics, as well being a frequent broadcaster
on such
issues.
He studied modern history at Oxford University, before doing
post-graduate
work on Latin American politics at Liverpool University. In
the late 1970s
and early 1980s he worked as a journalist for The Guardian and
The
Economist, covering Peru and Bolivia.
