Félix E. Martín, Ph.D., is associate professor in the Department of Politics & International Relations at Florida International University.
Professor Martín holds Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in political science from Columbia University. He also holds an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago. He earned his B.A. in economics and political science at Saint Peter's College.
His areas of expertise include international relations theory, security and peace studies, and international political economy. He is a specialist in the security and political economy of Latin America and Southern Europe. His research interests expand from the theories of international relations, strategic culture, strategic interactions, peace studies, management of international life, the political economy of healthcare services on a global scale, to the management and resolution of the tragedy of the commons. He spent the 2000–01 academic year in Madrid, Spain, at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares as a senior lecturer and researcher with a Fulbright fellowship. He was a visiting scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University (2015–16).
Dr. Martín authored the book Militarist Peace in South America: Conditions for War and Peace (2006); coauthored Russia and Latin America: From Nation-State to Society of States (2013); and coedited Latin America's Quest for Globalization: The Role of Spanish Firms (2005). His academic articles have been published in Revista Quórum, Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, Foro Internacional, Economica, Delaware Review of Latin American Studies, Peace Research Journal, Canadian Journal of Peace Studies, and The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations.
Dr. Martín is currently working on the notion of "dis-development," its theoretical underpinnings, and its manifestations in selected Latin American economies. Also, he continues to work on a longer-term project on a cross-national comparative analysis of the militarist peace hypothesis and its effects on the causes of war and peace in peripheral world regions. His book Dis-development
in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Socio-economic and Political Regression will be published in 2025. In addition, his coedited volume, Routledge Handbook of Latin American International Political Economy, is under contract for 2025.