Piero Gleijeses (Venice, Italy, August 4, 1944) is a professor of United States foreign policy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.
[1] He is best known for his scholarly studies of Cuban foreign policy under Fidel Castro, which earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005,[2] and has also published several works on US intervention in Latin America.
He is the only foreign scholar to have been allowed access to the Cuba's Castro-era government archives.
[4] Hailed by Jorge Dominguez as "the best study available of Cuban operations in Africa during the Cold War",[5] it won SHAFR's Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize for 2003.
[7] Aside from scholarly journals, Gleijeses has contributed to such publications as Foreign Affairs[8] and the London Review of Books.