Timothy Charles Brown
Research Fellow

Expertise: Latin America; ethnic conflicts; national security; terrorism and guerrilla warfare; trade, especially between the United States and Latin America

Timothy Charles Brown has been a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University since 1994. He is also director for the Americas of the European Centre international d'etudes et du reserche sur le terrorisme et l'aide aux victimes du terrorisme (CIRET-AVT), a director of Bently Pressurized Bearings, and an adjunct professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Brown's writings focus on terrorism, revolutions, guerrilla wars and peace processes, Latin America, ethnic conflicts, national security, international trade, and illegal immigration.

From 2000 to 2004, Brown was director of the Diplomatic Academy at Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He was also a senior fellow at New Mexico's Border Research Institute.

During his diplomatic career (1965–92), he served as senior liaison to the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance (the Contras) in Central America from 1987 to 1990 and to the United Nations Cease Fire Observation Force there from 1989 to 1990.

Among other diplomatic positions, he was consul general in Martinique from 1983 to 1987; deputy coordinator for Cuban affairs in the Department of State from 1981 to 1983; NATO economic adviser from 1980 to 1983; desk officer for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, International Energy Agency, International Atomic Energy Agency and European Community from 1980 to 1981; and desk officer for Paraguay/Uruguay from 1978 to 1980. From 1965 to 1978, Brown served as a diplomat in Israel, Spain, Vietnam, Mexico, Paraguay, El Salvador, the Netherlands and France.

As a member of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1954 to 1964, Brown was a Thai and Spanish interpreter and Southeast Asia analyst; performed missions in Thailand, Guatemala, the Philippines, Taiwan, and elsewhere; and was a security guard in Nicaragua. He is fluent in Spanish and French.

Brown is the author of Causes of Continuing Conflict in Nicaragua (Hoover Institution Press, 1995), When the AK-47s Fall Silent: Revolutionaries, Guerrillas, and the Dangers of Peace (Hoover Institution Press, 2000), and The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua (University of Oklahoma Press, 2001).

He is a regular guest columnist for the Washington Times Weekly and has also published articles in the Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, and many newspapers in Latin America and in professional journals including the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Journal of American Popular Culture, and Policy Studies Review. He also speaks at numerous international and academic conferences.

Brown is profiled in Above and Beyond: Former Marines Conquer the Civilian World (Turner, 2003) and listed in Who's Who among American Teachers, Who's Who in the West, Men of Distinction of 1996, International Who's Who of Intellectuals, and Dictionary of International Biographies.

He graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in international relations. In 1974, he studied international trade and economics at the state department's Foreign Service Institute and in 1997 earned a Ph.D. in political psychology, international economics, history, and political science from New Mexico State.