Professor and researcher at the Department of Political Studies at CUCSH, Universidad de Guadalajara. Member of the SNI, level II, and teacher with a desirable profile from the Ministry of Public Education. Guest Professor at the Universities of Cologne and the Free University of Berlin, Germany; National of Rosario, Buenos Aires and El Salvador, Argentina; Alcala, Spain; Miami and San Diego, United States; Leiden, the Netherlands, and Warsaw, Poland, as well as the Inter-American Defense College, Washington, D.C., the Center for Superior Naval Studies in Mexico, the National Defense College in Honduras, and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in Italy. Recipient of the William J. Perry Award for Excellence in Defense and Security Education in the individual category, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University, Washington, D.C.