Marcial A. G. Suarez holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Fluminense Federal University (Universidade Federal Fluminense – UFF), in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. He is a former research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School (2006-2007) and was a senior fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre for Conviviality and Inequality in Latin America (MECILA) in São Paulo (2024). His research focuses on violence and its dynamics from a comparative perspective, with a particular interest in modes of criminal governance in Latin America. He has edited the books Power Dynamics and Regional Security in Latin America (2017, Palgrave Macmillan), Brazil in the Contemporary Political Context: Challenges and Perspectives (2021), and International Politics in the Americas: Challenges and Tensions (2022), the latter two published by the Fluminense Federal University Press. Marcial Suarez coordinates the International Politics Analysis Group at the Fluminense Federal University, focusing on issues related to the study of violence in its various forms and at different levels, whether local, national, or international.

• Latin America
• Transnational Organized Crime Organizations
• Criminal Governance
• Borders
• Local Communities