Profile

Louis Goodman carries out research on social change and politics in Latin America and in Asia. His current research focuses on public goods, regional alliances and development. He has published widely on civil-military relations in Latin America, on foreign investment in developing countries and on determinants of career success for blue-collar workers. He has researched and lived abroad in Chile, Ecuador, Mexico,Peru and Singapore. In 1992 Dr. Goodman served as the President of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs.

Selected Publication

Books

• Lessons from the Venezuelan Experience. Co-edited with Johanna Mendelson Foreman, Moises
  Naim, Joseph Tulchin, and Gary Bland. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University
  Press, 1995.
• Political Parties and Democracy in Central America. Co-edited with William Leogrande and
  Johanna Mendelson Forman. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992.
• Japan-United States Relations in an Era of Globalization. Co-edited with Hiroharu Seki, Shiro Okubo and Masaru Tamamoto. Tokyo: Nihon Hyoronsha, 1992, published in Japanese.
• The Military and Democracy: The Future of Civil-Military Relations in Latin America.
  Co-edited with Johanna S. R. Mendelson and Juan Rial. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books,
  1990, published in Spanish as Los Militares y la Democracia. Montevideo: PIETHO, 1991.
• Small Nations, Giant Firms. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1987, published in Spanish as Paises Pequeños, Empresas Gigantes. Mexico City: LIMUSA, 1993.
• Uruguay y la Democracia. Co-edited with Charles Gillespie, Juan Rial, and Peter Winn.
   Montevideo: Ediciones de la Banda Oriental, 3 volumes, 1984 and 1985.
• The Alien Doctors: The Role of Foreign Medical Graduates in the American System. With
  Rosemary A. Stevens and Steven S. Mick. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1976. 
• The Multinational Corporation and Social Change. Co-edited with David E. Apter. New York: Praeger, 1976.
• The Structure of Human Society. With Phillip E. Hammond, Scott Greer, Richard H. Hall, and Mary Catherine Taylor. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1975.
• Workers and Managers in Latin America. Co-edited with Stanley M. Davis. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1972.
• Selected Studies in Marriage and the Family. Co-edited with Robert F. Winch. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968. 

Teaching

• Social Political Economy of Asia and Latin America

Semester: Spring 2026 | 11420TSE 605200 | 2 credits 
Module: 

The 21st century world is composed of evolving configurations of nations striving to achieve and sustain peace and prosperity and to produce public goods to support those goals. Understanding how these efforts take different forms in different regional and national contexts is critical for grasping both prospects for sustaining national economic and political development and for the nature of world politics. This course will examine such efforts in comparative context focusing on arrangements in Latin America and Asia. It will do so by examining economic, social, geographic, and political characteristics of Asian and Latin American nations in comparative context.