Daniel Weisz Argomedo is a Non-Resident Fellow at Orion Policy Institute. He earned his PhD in Political Science at the University of California Irvine with a focus on International Relations and Comparative Studies. His dissertation focused on the war on drugs and its impact on women’s security in Mexico. He is an associate with the Small Wars Journal and the managing editor for the International Journal of Police Science. He wrote “Climate Change, Drug Traffickers and La Sierra Tarahumara” for the special issue on climate change and global security at the Journal of Strategic Security. He is a lecturer for a variety of departments including criminology, political science and security studies. He is fluent in Spanish, and his research interests and publications include cyberwarfare, climate change, the war on drugs, terrorism, organized crime, women’s security and contemporary Latin American politics and history.
