Raúl Guillermo Benítez Manaut
Professor Benítez has been a full-time tenured researcher at CISAN since September 2000 in the Area of Strategic Studies. Also, is President of the NGO Colectivo de Análisis de Seguridad con Democracia.
He studied his doctorate in Latin American studies at the UNAM; his masters in economics and international policy at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) and his bachelors in sociology at the UNAM.
His research centers on strategic problems; compared peace processes; international, hemispheric, and national security; foreign policy; and civilian-military relations.
His individual research project is entitled “National Security and Armed Forces in Mexico at the End of the Century”.
Currently, he is SIS Visiting Professor, CNAS Senior Fellow in Washington, at American University, Washington, D.C. He was awarded first place for the José Simeón Cañas Central American University Prize in San Salvador in 1987, and the UNAM National University Distinction for Young Academics in 1989.
He was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York, from January to May 2001. He has been an invited lecturer at the campuses of the Latin American Social Sciences Center (FLACSO) in Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires; Mexico City; Quito; San José, Costa Rica; Guatemala; and San Salvador.
He has given lectures at the Tokyo Institute for Development Studies; the Chinese Institute for International Strategic Studies of Beijing; the University for Peace in San José, Costa Rica; the University of El Salvador; the University of Valencia; the University of Georgetown; the American University; and George Washington University.
Among his publications is the book La teoría militar y la guerra civil en El Salvador (San Salvador: UCA Editores, 1989) and Mexico and the New Challenges of Hemispheric Security (Washington, D.C., Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson Internacional Center for Scholars, 2004).. He co-authored the books La paz en Centroamérica. Expediente de documentos fundamentales (Mexico City: CIICH, UNAM, 1989); Chiapas. El desafío de la paz (Mexico City: ITAM/GEMAP/Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2000); México-Centroamérica. Desafíos a inicios del siglo XXI (Mexico City: ITAM, 2001); and Chiapas: Interpretaciones sobre la negociación y la paz (Mexico City: CISAN, UNAM/Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2003); El rompecabezas. Conformando la seguridad hemisférica en el siglo XXI (Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros-Universidad de Boloña, 2006); Atlas de la seguridad y la defensa de México 2009 (México, Casede, 2009); Crimen organizado e Iniciativa Mérida en las relaciones México-Estados Unidos (México, Casede, 2010) and Seguridad y defensa en América del Norte: nuevos dilemas geopolíticos (San Salvador, Fundación Guillermo Manuel Ungo/Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson Internacional Center for Scholars, 2010).
His recent books and articles are in www.seguridadcondemocracia.org
Proyectos Individuales
“Seguridad y geopolítica en América del Norte” y “Seguridad nacional y fuerzas armadas en México a fin de siglo”.
Proyectos Colectivos
“Creating Community in the Americas and Central America” en colaboración con el Woodrow Wilson Center y la Fundación “Guillermo Manuel Ungo” de El Salvador.
Seguridad y defensa en América del Norte: nuevos dilemas geopolíticos
Raúl Benítez Manaut, coord., San Salvador, Woodrow Wilson Center/Fundación Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 2010. ISBN : 978-99923-29-31-3
Crimen organizado e Iniciativa Mérida en las relaciones México-Estados Unidos
Raúl Benítez Manaut, coord., México, Casede, 2010. ISBN: 978-607-95380-1-9
Atlas de la seguridad y la defensa de México
Raúl Benítez Manaut, Abelardo Rodríguez Sumano y Armando Rodríguez Luna, coords., México, Casede, 2009. ISBN: 607-953-8008, 978-607-953-800-2
El rompecabezas. Conformando la seguridad hemisférica en el siglo XXI
Joseph Tulchin, Raúl Benítez Manaut y Rut Diamint, Buenos Aires, Prometeo Libros, 2006. ISBN: 987-228-260-9
