Kurt Weyland (Spring ’91, 2004–05), the Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Texas at Austin, published “Diffusion Waves in European Democratization: The Impact of Organizational Development” in Comparative Politics 45, 1 (2012) and “The Arab Spring: Why the Surprising Similarities with the Revolutionary Wave of 1848?” in Perspectives On Politics 10, 4 (2012).