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Martin Edwin "Mick" Andersen has served as Director of Latin American and Caribbean programs for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, where he founded NDI's Civil-Military Project; as a member of the professional staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and senior defense advisor for Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), and as a senior advisor for policy planning at the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2001, Andersen won the U.S. Office of Special Counsel's "Public Servant Award" for his contributions in protecting national security information and combating administrative misconduct at Justice, the first-ever federal employee in the national security category to receive such an honor. He is the author of two books on Argentine history--Dossier Secreto, Argentina�s Desaparecidos and the Myth of the �Dirty War�(1993/2000) and La Policia, Pasado, Presente y Propuestas para el Futuro (2001), and the editor of a third, Hacia una Nueva Relación: El papel de las Fuerzas Armadas en un Gobierno Democrático (1990). Andersen is also the author of numerous scholarly pieces, such as �The Military Obstacle to Latin Democracy� (Foreign Policy, No. 73, Winter 1988-1989); �The Undone Reform: Civil-Military Relations and the Administration of Justice in Mexico,� in Riordan Roett (ed.), The Challenge of Institutional Reform in Mexico (1995); "Failing States, Ungoverned Spaces and the Indigenous Challenge in Latin America", in the Security and Defense Studies Review (Summer 2006), and, with Dr. James Jay Carafano, Trade Security at Sea: Setting National Priorities for Safeguarding America�s Economic Lifeline, The Heritage Foundation (2006). A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University�s School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, he is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in American history at the Catholic University of America.