Education
University of Washington. Oberlin College.
editor curator of Americas Collection
University of Washington. Oberlin College.
He was also a research fellow of the Independent Institute and wrote on the economic and political development in East/Southeast Asia and Latin America. Foreign over 20 years he was the editor for the Yearbook on International Communist Affairs and the Journal of Interamerican Studies. He testified before the United States. Congress on his work monitoring elections around Latin America.
Ratliff graduated from Oberlin College and received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Chinese/Latin American histories) from the University of Washington.
He taught at Stanford University, San Francisco State University, University of San Francisco, Tunghai University in Taiwan, and Diplomatic Academy at Lake Tahoe. Ratliff published in a number of newspaper, including the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, El Mercurio (in Santiago), the Globe and Mail and the American Chronicle.
Ratliff also appeared on the Public Broadcasting Service"s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on Cable News Network, National Public Radio, British Broadcasting Corporation, Voice of America and Radio Marti.