Overview
Dr. Lisa Ann Vasciannie is the Head of the Department of Government at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. She is a fellow with the Caribbean Policy Consortium. Lisa Ann Vasciannie PhD, Government :International Relations (UWI) is a Lecturer International Relations. She currently lectures Introduction to International Relations, International Relations: Theories and Approaches, and Regionalism in a Globalized Age. Dr. Vasciannie’s research interests include Election Observation, Democracy Promotion, International Norms, the Role of International Actors on Domestic Politics and Gender in International Relations. As an electoral expert, Dr. Vasciannie has observed elections in the Maldives and Tanzania. She has done extensive research on international election observation in the Commonwealth Caribbean and within the Organization of American States. Dr. Vasciannie is currently the Faculty Advisor for The UWI Model United Nations Club.
Research
Publications
Vasciannie, Stephen and Lisa Vasciannie Jamaica’s Foreign Policy: 1962-2022, (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Vasciannie, Lisa Ann International Election Observation in the Commonwealth Caribbean:
Race, Aid and Democratization (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59069-1
Articles
Vasciannie, Lisa Ann Observing Caribbean Elections During the Pandemic: Challenges and Best Practices (January 20, 2023). OASIS N° 37, 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4331755
Vasciannie, Lisa Ann “Jamaica and Covid-19: issues of law and policy in the first year” The Round Table, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2021.1956756
Vasciannie, Lisa Ann “The Organization of American States: Evolution of Election Observation in the Inter-American System 1962 – 2017” Caribbean Journal of International Relations, 2018
Vasciannie, Lisa Ann “International Election Observation in Guyana: 1964-2001.” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 55 (2017) 141-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2017.1283476
