Wiarda Invited to Lecture in Dominican Republic CHRONICLE STAFF May 5, 2000 At the invitation of Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernández, Pol-itical Science professor Howard Wiarda visited the Caribbean nation in March to give a series of lectures on U.S. foreign policy and Latin American politics. Fernández, who is a former student of Wiarda, asked the professor to speak to about 400 political leaders, representatives of the diplomatic community and students in the School of Foreign Diplomatic Affairs of the Foreign Ministry. According to Wiarda, the lectures were widely publicized, reported in the press and televised live. Fernández attended the lectures and introduced Wiarda. Wiarda's talks, titled "The Domestic Basis of U.S. Foreign Policy," "United States Policy in Latin America: An Overview" and "Politics, Social Change, and Modernization in Latin America" will be published in monograph form. During his visit, Wiarda also met with Fernández and his political staff to advise the president about the proposed Presidential Research and Policy Center, a think tank the Dominican leader wants to establish after leaving office. Drawing on his experiences of his visit, Wiarda, who holds the Leonard J. Horwitz Professorship in Iberian and Latin American Politics, has written an article about the upcoming Dominican elections. The piece will be published as part of the Hemisphere 2000 Occasional Papers series produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.