Douglas Friedman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Douglas Friedman is Associate Professor Emeritus. He retired from the College of Charleston after 35 years. He was the founding Director of both the International Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Programs. He received his B.A. from Richmond College, City University of New York and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate School. Dr. Friedman's main teaching and research interests include Comparative Politics - Latin America, Economic and Political Development, Revolution; the Development of the State and Civil Society.
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Education
Ph.D., City University of New York, New York, New York
M.Phil., City University of New York, New York, New York
B.A., Richmond College, City University of New York, New York, New York
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Research Interests
Dr. Friedman has traveled extensively in Latin America and is the author of The State and Underdevelopment in Spanish America: The Political Roots of Dependency in Peru and Argentina, published by Westview Press, "La sociedad civil en la Cuba contemporanea: la politica estadounidense y la realidad cubana." Temas (Havana), Numero 46 abril-junio 2006, and more recently, "Popular Education and Politics in Cuba: The Centro Memorial Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the Gramscian Civil society Ideal." International Journal of Cuban Studies, Vol. 4, #1, Spring 2012.