Isidro Morales is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal Latin American Policy (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.co...), distributed globally by Wiley, an external fellow of the United States-Mexico Center of the Baker Institute at Rice University, National Emeritus Researcher at CONAHCYT, and professor of International Relations at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. He has been a researcher at El Colegio de México and a professor at the universities of Copenhagen, Hanyang in South Korea, and the Tecnológico de Monterrey. He has been a visiting researcher at the Watson Institute at Brown University and at the Center for North American Studies at American University in Washington. He is the author of books on the Mexican oil industry and Mexico’s geo-economic and geopolitical integration in North America, as well as several specialized articles on trade integration, security, energy and strategic relations in North America, and political theory and international relations, published in Mexico and abroad in specialized journals and books. Among his books are Post NAFTA North America. Reshaping the Economic and Political Governance of a Changing Region (2008), as editor: National Solutions to Trans-Border Problems? The Governance of Security and Risk in a Post-NAFTA North America (2011), and as co-editor: Post-Hegemonic Regionalism in the Americas. Toward a Pacific-Atlantic Divide? (2017). Dr. Morales is a graduate of El Colegio de México and obtained his PhD in International Relations from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.