Bio and Select Publications
Dr. Philip W. Travis
Philip W. Travis holds a PhD. From Washington State University and is a Professor of History at State College of Florida, Sarasota-Manatee. Travis’ publications include the 2017 monograph Reagan’s War on Terrorism in Nicaragua: The Outlaw State along with several peer reviewed journal articles and chapters related to US interventionism in Central America, terrorism, and counterinsurgency.
Select Publications
- Academic Books
- Reagan’s War on Terrorism in Nicaragua: The Outlaw State. London: Lexington Books, 2017.
- Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
- “We’re Going to Nicaragua: The United States, Nicaragua, and Counterterrorism in Central America during the 1980s.” Journal of Terrorism Research 7, issue 2 (May 2016).
- “Oscar Arias and the Treaty of Esquipulas.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American History, August, 2017.
- “The United States and Nicaragua: State Terrorism during the Late Cold War” in Adrian Hänni, Thomas Riegler, Przemyslaw Gasztold, Yonah Alexander eds. States and Terrorism in the Cold War: Myth and Reality Vol. 2. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
- “The Pacification of Nicaragua: The United States Intervention in Nicaragua, 1927-1933”, (Forthcoming)
- Book Reviews
- Book Review: Brian Glyn Williams, Counter Jihad: America’s Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. The Journal of Military History 81, No. 3 (July 2017)
- Book Review: Brian D’Haeseleer, The Salvadoran Crucible: The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency in El Salvador, 1979-1992. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2018. The Journal of Military History 82, No. 4 (October 2018)