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Juan Gabriel Tokatlián

Juan Gabriel Tokatlián is professor of international relations at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. He was awarded a PhD by the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. He was co-founder (1982) and director (1987-94) of the Centro de Estudios Internacionales (CEI) at the Universidad de los Andes, associate professor (1995-98) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and senior researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales (IEPRI) (all in Bogotá). Juan Gabriel Tokatlián has published extensively on Colombian and Argentinean foreign policies; on US-Latin American relations; on drug trafficking, organised violence and terrorism in the Americas; and on global politics and dynamics. His most recent book is La guerra contra las drogas en el mundo andino, Buenos Aires, Editorial del Zorzal (2009).

Research areas: Armed violence and conflict in fragile settings

Publications

Organised crime, illicit drugs and state vulnerability: Juan Gabriel Tokatlián 25 April 2011
The growing power of criminal networks over the international drug economy exposes the failure of the prohibitionist approach to illicit narcotics. But what is the alternative? Juan Gabriel Tokatlián presents the conclusions of a workshop of international experts held in Oslo in October 2010 which explored better ways forward. more