Juan Pablo Soriano

Biography

Lecturer and Researcher in International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and Associated Lecturer and Researcher at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI). Previously, he has been lecturer in International Relations at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). His research and teaching subjects include: foreign policy analysis, international security, transnational organized crime, EU’ foreign and security policy, Euro-Latin American relations, and human security in Latin America. He also is a member of the research group “European Foreign Policy Observatory” , that currently is developing the project “Normative contestation in Europe: Implications for the EU in a changing global order” –funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and based as a scientific research project at IBEI. This research group recently finished the project “The EU in an unsettled international system: crisis, polarity and multilateralism”, also funded by the Spanish government. Also, he has participated as researcher in the Network for the Analysis of Transnational Youth Gangs in Central American, Mexico and the United States, and at IBEI he has been academic coordinator of different seminars and courses for Latin American security forces.

Research Interest

Relations between the European Union and Latin America, Foreign Policy Analysis and International Security and Strategic Culture