Ralph Espach

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About Ralph Espach

Team and project director and senior analyst for US and Latin America relations, political-military affairs, climate change and environmental security, and strategy and policy assessment, monitoring, and evaluation (AME). Innovative data-driven analyses using quantitative and qualitative data to examine real-world systems: factors analysis, systems analysis, social network analysis. Author: Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs.com, The Atlantic, War on the Rocks, and the National Interest. Books:"The Dilemma of Lawlessness: Organized Crime, Violence, Prosperity, and Security along Guatemala's Borders"(Marine Corps University Press);"Globally Sown, Locally Grown: Private Environmental Regimes in Developing Countries"(Palgrave);"The Strategic Dynamics of Inter-American Trade with Vinod Aggarwal and Joseph Tulchin (Stanford Univ.); Latin America in the New International System (Lynne Rienner). Ph.D. in political science, University of California at Berkeley. M.A. from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. B.A. from Columbia University. Speaks Spanish and Portuguese.