ANDRES DE
CASTRO GARCIA

Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and Administration of the National University of Distance Education (UNED). Joined 2020. He has a PhD in International Security, summa cum laude , and an MA in Peace, Security and Defense from the IUGM-UNED, as well as a Juris Doctorate (JD) from the University of Salamanca. He graduated from the National Defense Course from the Higher Center for National Defense Studies (CESEDEN). He began his academic career in Bolivia (2012), and continued it in Chile (2012-16); at first as a researcher at the National Academy of Political and Strategic Studies (ANEPE) of the Ministry of National Defense of the Government of Chile and, later, as an Associate Professor. Later, he obtained a position in Ecuador (2016-2017). Afterwards, between 2017 and 2020, he became an Associate Professor in Iraq during and after the war against DAESH. He was the Head of two departments of Politics and International Relations. Since 2012 he has been a visiting scholar or visiting researcher at various universities: 1) United States: New York University, Georgetown University and the Naval Postgraduate School. 2) In Colombia: Military University of Nueva Granada. 3) Canada: University of Western Ontario. 4) Brazil: Escola Superior de Guerra/ 5) Spain: University of Salamanca, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, the Ortega-Marañón Foundation, the Seville campus of Texas Tech University and the Universidad Pontificia Comillas. 6) Chile: International Studies Institute (IEI), of the University of Chile, the Ibero-American University, the Diplomatic Academy and the Development University (UDD). 7) Bolivia: Universidad Mayor, Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca. 8) Lithuania: Mykolas Romeris University (MRUNI). 9) Mexico: University of the Americas Puebla (UDLAP, Mexico). He has presented at the Majlis al-Nuwwab / Assembly of Deputies of the Kingdom of Morocco and at the South American Defense School (ESUDE) of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). He has supervised seven doctoral theses, several master's theses and dozens of bachelor's thesis at various universities. He has been part of eleven doctoral thesis panels at prestigious institutions in several countries such as UNED, the University of Salamanca, the Universidad Pontificia Comillas and the “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy (MVNIA) of the Serviciul Român de Informații of Romania. He has a relevant academic management experience, having served as the HoD of two departments, the director of a doctoral program, the director of two master's programs and has served as vice director of two PhD programs. In addition to leading three postgraduate courses. He was the deputy director at the General Gutiérrez Mellado Research Center (2022-2024) and the director of the Masters of Peace, Security and Defense of the IUGM-UNED. He has been the director of several research projects at and/or for the National Academy of Strategic Political Studies (ANEPE), the National University of Distance Education (UNED) or the Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid/Ministry of Justice and Security (JenV) of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. He has sixty seven publications, twelve of them indexed in JCR-Clarivate and/or SCOPUS that have been recognized by the Spanish Government for the period 2014-2020 and that have been published in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Greece, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Spain. Some of them co-authored with some of the most renowned authors in Security Studies and International Relations such as professors Cris Matei (PhD King's College London) and Thomas C. Bruneau (PhD University of California, Berkeley).