My Teaching
Undergraduate Courses Taught
Introduction to Security Studies
This course explores kinetic armed conflicts and emerging security challenges like transnational terrorism, climate security, cyber security, and the revolution in military affairs, providing a comprehensive understanding of contemporary security dynamics and global threats.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
Contemporary Armed Conflicts
This course examines the transformation of armed conflicts, exploring how political, military, sociological, and technological developments have changed warfare. It covers traditional kinetic warfare, modern conflict hotspots, and themes like terrorism, proxy wars, and battlefield robotics through case studies.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
U.S. Government and Politics
This course introduces American politics, covering cultural and constitutional foundations, political institutions, party polarization, and political behavior. It also examines non-governmental elites, elections, and U.S. policy areas: economic, social, and foreign policy.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
Public International Law
This course examines the transformation of armed conflicts, exploring how political, military, sociological, and technological developments have changed warfare. It covers traditional kinetic warfare, modern conflict hotspots, and themes like terrorism, proxy wars, and battlefield robotics through case studies.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
U.S. National Security Policy
This inderdisciplinary course explores U.S. national security challenges and policies in the 21st century, focusing on emerging threats, terrorism and counterterrorism, surveillance, drone use, cyber warfare, and border security. It emphasizes complex, evolving security issues beyond traditional military force.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
Graduate Courses Taught
US. National Security in a Global Context: 21st Century Challenges, Policies, & the Law
This course examines the transformation of armed conflicts, exploring how political, military, sociological, and technological developments have changed warfare. It covers traditional kinetic warfare, modern conflict hotspots, and themes like terrorism, proxy wars, and battlefield robotics through case studies.
University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
The U.S. Presidency: Power and Constraint
This course examines presidential powers under the Constitution, including implied and inherent powers, the growth of executive authority, and key 20th and 21st-century presidencies. It explores debates on presidential power, presidential government, and the imbalance of institutional power.
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
The Separation of Church and State in the U.S.
This course explores constitutional and practical aspects of church-state separation through a study of First Amendment jurisprudence and significant Supreme Court cases shaping the Establishment Clause. It includes an in-depth analysis of Newdow vs. Congress, judicial doctrine, and the Court’s interpretive authority.
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Research Seminars
Adrift in an Illiberal Tide: Democratic Backsliding and its Impact on the World Order
This research seminar examines democratic backsliding, the erosion of international law, and loosening global order, analyzing how illiberal movements reshape foreign policy approaches, international relations, and challenge established norms of democracy and global governance.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
Adrift in an Illiberal Tide: Democratic Backsliding and its Impact on the World Order
This research seminar examines democratic backsliding, the erosion of international law, and loosening global order, analyzing how illiberal movements reshape foreign policy approaches, international relations, and challenge established norms of democracy and global governance.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
The Changing Face of War: Technology, Civil Impact, and International Law
This seminar examines contemporary armed conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine, the impact of unmanned systems and lethal autonomous weapons, and the breakdown of international humanitarian law, focusing on challenges to civilian protection and the principle of non-aggression.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
The United States in World Affairs: The Biden Transition
This research seminar explores the Biden administration’s impact on the international order, emphasizing liberal institutionalism, alliance rebuilding, and efforts to restore normalcy after Trump, while addressing domestic ecconoic turmoil and democratic decline as well as global challenges like COVID-19.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
Theses Supervised
Leonardo Carreño Santamaría, Hacía la Zombificación del Migrante: Prácticas Deshumanizadoras Mediante la Securitización de la Migración (Toward the Zombification of the Migrant: Dehumanizing Practices through the Securitization of Migration) - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in July 2024.
Isabella Mijares, The limits of the US-Japan Security Alliance from 2016-2019: Differing threat perceptions and ensuing points of friction - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in July 2024.
Isabella Cucalón, U.S. Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan: A National Security Strategy - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in July 2024.
Diana Melendrez, Navigating the Dragon: Tracing the Evolution of U.S. Security Policy Toward China and the Emergence of the Biden Doctrine - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in February 2024
Daniela Rueda Erazo, De la controversia a la normalización: el use de drones militares por parte de Estados Unidos y su impacto sobre el derecho de los conflictos armados (From controversy to normalization: U.S. use of military drones and its impact on the law of armed conflict) - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in August 2023
Santiago Muñoz Burbano, Dios, Patria, Familia: la obsesión de los populistas de extrema derecha con el género, el sexo y la sexualidad (God, Country, Family: far-right populists' obsession with gender, sex and sexuality) - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in July 2023
María Camila Remolina Quiroga, Make America Hateful Again: A review of former President Donald Trump’s securitization rhetoric and its impact on Mexican migrants arriving in the United States - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in July 2023
Daniela Vásquez Vélez, Las primera damas de Estados Unidos: ¿entes simbólicos o actrices de política exterior? (The first ladies of the United States: symbolic agents or foreign policy actors?) - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defensed in May 2023
Eduard Santiago Rodriguez Mojica, Understanding the nature of targeted killings with drones: a point of ambiguity in international law - Master’s in International Law, Universidad de los Andes, defended in December 2022
Laura Valentina Manchola Gutiérrez, El Nuevo Nacionalismo Blanco Ecléctico Y Transnacional: El Rol de las Mujeres y los Hombres Homosexuales en la “Alt-Right” (The New Eclectic and Transnational White Nationalism: The Role of Women and Gay Men in the "Alt-Right") - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in October 2022
Maria Camila Ramos Miranda, Un Gobierno para los blancos: Como Trump ayudó las franjas de la derecha a convertirse a mainstream (A government for whites: How Trump helped right-wing fringes go mainstream) - B.A. in IR and PoliSci, PUJ, defended in September 2022
Gabriel Posada Panero, Cooperation in War and Peace: The Internationalization of the Colombian Conflict in the 21st Century - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in May 2022
Daniel Lozano Ariza, Las Voces Radicales que Buscan Ser Escuchadas: Proud Boys y Qanon en su Cruzada por Reclutar Nuevos Seguidores (Radical Voices Seeking to Be Heard: Proud Boys and Qanon on a Crusade to Recruit New Followers) - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in April 2022
Diego Alejandro Correa Ovalle, “Totally Under Control:” The Trump Administration’s Handling of the Coronavirus Pandemic, Department of International Relations, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in October 2021
Carolina Dominguez Millan, Tortura Legal: El Nuevo Contexto de Estados Unidos Después del 11 de Septiembre (Legal Torture: The New U.S. Context After 9/11) - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in August 2021
Gerardo Caneva Zárate, The United States’ Past Present and Future Involvement in the Strait of Hormuz - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in August 2021
Sofía Pinzón Castaño, Emotions as a National Security Agenda Influence: How Trump’s 2016 Campaign Message Shaped the U.S. National Security Agenda - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in April 2021
David Andrés Martínez Cruz, A Rogue Agency: the CIA’s post-9/11 rendition program and the lack of international and domestic accountability -B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in April 2021
María Alejandra Rojas Riaño, El Legado de Trump en el Sufrimiento de los Migrantes: Un Análisis de la Retórica y la Políticas Xenófobas Durante la Administración Trump (Trump's Legacy of Migrant Suffering: An Analysis of Xenophobic Rhetoric and Policy During the Trump Administration) - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in January 2021
Kevin Alexander Ramirez Nieto, Elecciones Bajo Fuego: Los Ciberataques de Rusia en las Elecciones Presidenciales de EEUU 2016 y Ucrania 2014 (Elections Under Fire: Russia's Cyberattacks on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and Ukraine 2014) - B.A. in IR, PUJ, defended in August 2020