Wilson Center Projects
"The Dark Side of the Developing World's Expanding Middle Class"
Full Biography
Dr. Brenda Seaver has worked as a CIA analyst for 14 years. She began her career covering East Asia and has spent the last decade focusing on various countries in South America. Between 2010-12, Seaver was a Latin America Regional Analyst at the US Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. She recently completed a two-year rotation to the CIA's Red Cell'--a unit dedicated to "out-of-the-box" analysis--where she has written on Latin America and other issues from an alternative analysis angle. Prior to joining the CIA, Seaver was a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, where she taught courses on international relations and published journal articles on diverse topics. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Pomona College and a doctorate in political science from the University of California, Irvine.
Major Publications
"The Regional Sources of Power-Sharing Failure: The Case of Lebanon." (2000) Political Science Quarterly, 115:247-79.
"The Public Dimension of Foreign Policy." (1998) International Journal of Press/Politics, 3:65-91.
"Stratospheric Ozone Protection: IR Theory and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer." (1997) Environmental Politics, 6:31-67.