Rafael Velazquez-Flores is Professor of International Relations at the School of Economics and International Relations, University of Baja California, Mexico. He has taught International Relations in several Mexican universities at graduate and undergraduate levels. He has been a visiting professor at the Pablo Olavide University in Seville, Spain; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen, Germany; and the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies, The Netherlands. His research interests focus on Mexican foreign policy, U.S.-Mexican relations, and diplomacy. He is past president of the Mexican Association of International Studies. He is president of the Center for Mexican Foreign Policy Studies, a think tank based in Mexico City dedicated to analyzing Mexico’s foreign policy. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.