Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP)

The Institute of Peruvian Studies (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, IEP) was founded in 1964 by a group of social scientists that included José Maria Arguedas, Alberto Escobar, José Matos Mar, and María Rostworowski. It soon became an important center of modern social research in Peru. Later on, influential scholars such as Julio Cotler, Carlos Ivan Degregori, Efrain Gonzales de Olarte, and Jürgen Golte joined the IEP and cemented its reputation. Since its inception, it has also welcomed foreign scholars as a regular part of its intellectual life. Many of the IEP's publications have become classics of social science and history, and are widely read in Peruvian universities and abroad. The IEP's editorial house is one of the oldest publishers of social science research and one of the most active in Peru today. Analyzing the transformations brought about by the military regime (1968–1980), the IEP published a number of influential studies on land reform, urban sociology, and public policy. It was during this period that the Institute published Julio Cotler's highly influential Clases, estado y nación en el Perú (1978). With the transition to democracy, the IEP expanded into new topics: working-class conditions, youth, women, and market reforms. Since the late twentieth century, the IEP has studied the collapse of parties, the transformations of Peruvian society, and the rise of the authoritarian state during the Fujimori years. The IEP has published over 350 books and more than 110 working papers.

See alsoPeru: Peru Since Independence .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cotler, Julio. La cohesión social en la agenda de América Latina y de la Union Europea. Lima: Institutos de Estudios Peruanos, 2006.

Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. Available from http://www.iep.org.pe/.

                                        Julio Carrion