Richard Feinberg

Richard E. Feinberg is professor emeritus of international political economy at the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), University of California, San Diego. His four decades of engagement with inter-American relations spans government service (in the White House, Department of State, and U.S. Treasury), several prestigious Washington, D.C.-based public policy institutes, the Peace Corps (Chile), and in numerous corporate and non-profit consultancies. Since 2005, he has been the book reviewer for the Western Hemisphere section of Foreign Affairs magazine. He serves on advisory boards of Global Americans, the Institute of the Americas, and the Wilson Center’s Latin American Program.  

His most recent publications are: Widening the Aperture: Nearshoring in the ‘Near Abroad’ (Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, 2021), Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy (Brookings Institution Press, 2016) and Nicaraguan Tragedy: From Consensus to Coercion (Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, 2019). Previous books include Subsidizing Success: The Export-Import Bank in the U.S. Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1982), The Intemperate Zone: The Third World Challenge to U.S. Foreign Policy (Norton, 1983) and Summitry in the Americas: A Progress Report (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 1997).