J. Luis Rodriguez

J. Luis Rodriguez is an assistant professor of international security and law at George Mason University’s Schar School for Policy and Government. He studies the security preferences and strategies of the Global South, comparing how developing countries design norms of humanitarian intervention, nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament mechanisms, and regulations on emerging technologies. My first book manuscript examines why Latin American countries, traditionally wary of great power interference, shifted their stance on interventions and endorsed a norm that legitimized the use of military force to protect populations.

Dr. Rodriguez is an adjunct non-resident fellow at the Program on Nuclear Issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an affiliate of Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. His publications include pieces in International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and The Washington Post. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de Mexico. Before his academic career, he served as a junior advisor to the Mexican Vice-Minister for Latin American Affairs.