Eduardo Pastrana Buelvas

Doctor of Law from the University of Leipzig-Germany, lawyer from the Universidad Santiago de Cali-Colombia (USC). He was rector and director of research at USC. He is a tenured professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá (PUJB), attached to the Department of International Relations of the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations. He is a Senior Researcher at MINCIENCIAS. He is Visiting Professor at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Leipzig-Germany. He has been Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany; the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg; and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea. He is a consultant for the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation of Colombia (KAS). He is a visiting professor at the University of Leipzig and Rostock in Germany. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities de Castilla la Mancha in Spain, del Valle and USC in Colombia. He has published numerous books and articles on issues of International Relations, International Law, Military Historical Memory and National Security and Defense. He is a member of the think tank Regional Coordinator of Economic and Social Research (CRIES), in which he is part of the Academic Honour Committee; the International Studies Association (ISA); the Latin American Studies Association (LASA); the International Political Science Association (IPSA); and the Latin American Association of Political Science (ALACIP).