Author: Miguel Angel Latouche

Dr. Miguel Latouche has been guest professor at Rostock University, Germany, since 2020 under the auspices of the Philipp Schwartz-Initiative/ Humboldt Foundation. Until June 2020 he was Associated Professor at the Central University of Venezuela, Caracas. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Muno has been Chair of Comparative Politics at Rostock University, Rostock, since 2018. He studied Political Science, Ethnology and Public Law at the University of Mainz and the Central University of Venezuela, Caracas. His research topics include Latin American Politics, Populism and North South Relations. Alexandra Gericke has been assistant lecturer at the Chair for Comparative Politics at the University of Rostock, Germany, since 2017. Her research interests include politics, conflicts and peace processes in Colombia and guerrilla groups in Latin America. She is a Ph D candidate, working on insurgent group-to-party transitions in the course of peace processes, concentrating above all on the case of Colombia.