Status
Assistant Professor
Contact
acsotoma@nps.edu
Research Interests
Civil-military relations; Latin America; Peacekeeping operations; Comparative foreign policy; International organizations |
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Biography
Arturo C. Sotomayor joined the National Security Affairs Department in January of 2009. His areas of interest include civil-military relations in Latin America; UN peacekeeping participation by South American countries; Latin American comparative foreign policy; and international organizations. He is currently working on a book manuscript on Latin American engagement in UN-sponsored peace operations, and is doing research on border dispute settlement in the Western Hemisphere.
He has authored and co-authored numerous articles and contributed chapters to co-edited volumes in English and Spanish. He is co-editor, with Gustavo Vega, of El mundo desde México: Ensayos de Política Internacional (El Colegio de Mexico, 2008.) His work has been published in Security Studies, Hemisphere, Latin American Politics and Society, Foro Internacional, Politica y Gobierno, Foreign Affairs América Latina, and Revista de Ciencia Política.
In 2007, Sotomayor and Mónica Serrano founded the COLMEX-CIDE Mexico Security Study Group, a Ford Foundation research project focused on stimulating an informed reflection and analysis on the themes of national and international security, and to contribute to the public debate on security in Mexico.
Sotomayor earned his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 2004 and his B.A. degree in international relations from the Technological Autonomous Institute of Mexico (ITAM) in 1997. He was assistant professor in International Relations and Latin American Politics at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City for three years before joining NPS. He held a post-doctoral fellowship position at Tulane University’s Center for Interamerican and Policy Research in New Orleans in 2008 and was a public policy scholar in the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, in Washington DC. He has been a recipient of several fellowships, including a Fulbright-Garcia Robles doctoral studies grant, Ford and MacArthur Foundation fellowships, and an Institute for the Study of World Politics fellowship grant, and an Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Dissertation Award.
Recent Publications
- “Why Some States Participate in UN Peace Missions While Others Do Not?” An Analysis of Civil-Military Relations and Its Effects on Latin America’s Contributions to Peacekeeping Operations, in Security Studies 19, No. 1 (January 2010): 160-195.
- “Latin America’s Middle Powers in the United Nations: Brazil and Mexico in Comparative Perspective,” Journal of International Peacekeeping 16, No. 3 (June 2009): 364-378.
- “Foros a la carta o difusión de políticas,” Pensamiento Propio (Argentina) 14, No. 29 (January-June 2009): 127-152.
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