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. His research focuses on the interests and lawmaking strategies of the Global South in global security governance. He analyzes and compares how developing countries—primarily from Latin America—design norms of humanitarian intervention, nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament mechanisms, and regulations on emerging technologies with security applications. Dr. Rodriguez is an affiliate of Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, where he was a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow and a Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow with funding from the MacArthur Foundation. 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. He was a junior advisor to the Mexican Vice-Minister for Latin American Affairs before joining the Ph.D. program at Hopkins.