) is a professor of United States foreign policy in the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

. He is an author of a number of books on the subject of Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

, including several on the role of US intervention in Latin America, including the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and the 1965 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.

In 2002, Gleijeses published his book Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976 on the Cuban involvement in the decolonization of Africa

Decolonization of Africa

The decolonization of Africa followed World War II as colonized peoples agitated for independence and colonial powers withdrew their administrators from Africa.-Background:...

 (particularly the Cuban intervention in Angola

Cuban intervention in Angola

In November 1975, on the eve of Angola's independence, Cuba launched a large-scale military intervention in support of the leftist liberation movement MPLA against United States-backed invasions by South Africa and Zaire in support of two other liberation movements competing for power in the...

), which won the 2002 Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

In November 2003, the Cuban Council of State decorated Gleijeses with the Medal of Friendship at the initiative of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples.

Gleijeses is married to artist Setsuko Ono, the sister of Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...

.

Books

• Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976, 2002. ISBN 978-0807854648
• Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954, 1991. ISBN 978-0691025568
• Politics and Culture in Guatemala, 1988.
• Tilting at Windmills: Reagan in Central America, 1982.
• The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutionalist Revolt and American Intervention, 1978.

External links

• Piero Gleijeses at Johns Hopkins SAIS