Piero Gleijeses

Piero Gleijeses (born 1944 in Venice, Italy) is a professor of American foreign policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is an author of many books on the subject of Latin America.

In 2002, Gleijeses published his book "Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976", which won the 2002 Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

In November 2003, the Cuban Council of State decorated Gleijeses with the Medal of Friendship at the initiative of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples.

Gleijeses is married to artist Setsuko Ono, the sister of Yoko Ono.

Books

* Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976 ISBN 978-0807854648
* Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 ISBN 978-0691025568