Latin America Experts
Director, Security and Citizenship Program, Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences (FLACSO), Chile
In Chile I am an advisor to the Undersecretary of Interior for public security issues where among other things I work on program evaluation and monitoring. In Mexico I am currently finishing a book on the challenges of the City of Mexico Police Department, a work that also draws on my experience as a consultant to the Secretary of Public Security of de City of Mexico and the Chief Advisor of newly...
Former Unit Chief for Economic Relations and International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
Chair, FLACSO-Ecuador, Department of Political Studies, Ecuador
I am currently Chair of Political Studies and Director of the Ph.D. program in Social Sciences at the Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences FLACSO-Ecuador. Before joining FLACSO I was Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, and at Drew University. I got my Ph.D. in sociology from the New School for Social Research. I have published extensively on Latin American populism,...
Co-director of InSight Crime
Steven Dudley is the Co-director of InSight Crime, a joint initiative of American University in Washington DC, and the Foundation InSight Crime in Medellin, Colombia, which monitors, analyzes and investigates organized crime in the Americas. Based in Washington D.C., Dudley works with a team of eleven investigators and various contributors throughout the region to give the public a more complete v...
Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
In the course of my M.A. studies, I became interested in the subject of sovereign statehood in international relations. As I worked on my M.A. thesis, my attention gradually focused on the issues of acquisition and criteria of statehood. I had recalled witnessing the domestic debates on these issues before the dissolution of the country of my birth, Czechoslovakia, as well as following...
Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
My interest in accountability goes back to growing up during the 1960s in an internationalist household concerned about the relationship between injustice and impunity. In college I combined a broad study of international affairs with human rights activism, which inspired my interest in seeing what building democracy looks like up close. After living in New York City, Nicaragua and Mexico, I decid...