Dr Markus Hochmüller
I am a Researcher at the Global Security Programme’s CONPEACE initiative, where I lead the unit on security governance. I am also the Co-PI of the project ‘Colombian Lessons? Assessing the Practical and Normative Consequences of Latin American South-South Security Cooperation’. I teach criminology at Hertford College Oxford’s Visiting Student Programme and I am an Affiliate Member of the Latin American Centre, where I co-direct the project ‘The Comeback of the Latin American Armed Forces’.
I hold a PhD in political science from Freie Universität Berlin, where I have been a Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre 700 – ‘Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood’ and a Lecturer in Latin American Politics at the Institute for Latin American Studies. My research focuses on security and development in Latin America with an emphasis on peace -and state-building, security sector reform, policing, and border governance. I have conducted fieldwork in Central America, Colombia, the US, Israel, and Spain, and have taught courses to undergraduate and graduate students in the area of International Relations, Criminology, Security Studies, and Latin American Politics.
“Experts, Elites, and the Making of Safe Cities in Guatemala.” In: Carlos A. Pérez Ricart and Carlos Solar (eds.), Crime, Violence, and Justice in Latin America: Themes and Trends. Abingdon: Routledge (forthcoming).
“Men of Honour or Traitors of la Patria? Corruption in the Armed Forces in Latin America” (with Carlos Solar). In: Carlos Solar (ed.), Governing the Military: The Armed Forces and Democracy in Chile. Manchester: Manchester University Press (forthcoming).
“The Frontier City, Or: What Defines the Urban Condition in Contested Border Areas?” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Emergent Conversation 13 ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime, 31 August 2021.
“Why Police Reform Won't Do the Trick in Colombia.” The Oxford University Politics Blog, 24 June, 2021.
“COVID-19 in Colombia’s Borderlands and the Western Hemisphere: Adding Instability to a Double Crisis”. In: Journal of Latin American Geography, 19/3, 280-288 (with Annette Idler), 2020.
“Venezuelan migrants face crime, conflict and coronavirus at Colombia’s closed border.” The Conversation (with Annette Idler), 5 June, 2020.
“From Regime Protection to Urban Resilience? Assessing Continuity and Change in Transnational Security Governance Rationales in Guatemala”. In: Geoforum 84, 389-400 (with Markus-Michael Müller), 2017.
“Countering Criminal Insurgencies: Fighting Gangs and Building Resilient Communities in Post-War Guatemala”. In: Louise W. Moe and Markus-Michael Müller (eds.), Reconfiguring Intervention: Complexity, Resilience and the “Local Turn” in Counterinsurgent Warfare. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 163-186 (with Markus-Michael Müller), 2017.
“Locating Guatemala in Global Counterinsurgency”. In: Globalizations 13/1, 94-109 (with Markus-Michael Müller), 2016.
“Encountering Knowledge Production: The International Crisis Group and the Making of Mexico’s Security Crisis”. In: Third World Quarterly 35/4, 705-722 (with Markus-Michael Müller), 2014.
Dr Markus Hochmüller
I am a Researcher at the Global Security Programme’s CONPEACE initiative, where I lead the unit on security governance. I am also the Co-PI of the project ‘Colombian Lessons? Assessing the Practical and Normative Consequences of Latin American South-South Security Cooperation’. I teach criminology at Hertford College Oxford’s Visiting Student Programme and I am an Affiliate Member of the Latin American Centre, where I co-direct the project ‘The Comeback of the Latin American Armed Forces’.
I hold a PhD in political science from Freie Universität Berlin, where I have been a Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre 700 – ‘Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood’ and a Lecturer in Latin American Politics at the Institute for Latin American Studies. My research focuses on security and development in Latin America with an emphasis on peace -and state-building, security sector reform, policing, and border governance. I have conducted fieldwork in Central America, Colombia, the US, Israel, and Spain, and have taught courses to undergraduate and graduate students in the area of International Relations, Criminology, Security Studies, and Latin American Politics.
“Experts, Elites, and the Making of Safe Cities in Guatemala.” In: Carlos A. Pérez Ricart and Carlos Solar (eds.), Crime, Violence, and Justice in Latin America: Themes and Trends. Abingdon: Routledge (forthcoming).
“Men of Honour or Traitors of la Patria? Corruption in the Armed Forces in Latin America” (with Carlos Solar). In: Carlos Solar (ed.), Governing the Military: The Armed Forces and Democracy in Chile. Manchester: Manchester University Press (forthcoming).
“The Frontier City, Or: What Defines the Urban Condition in Contested Border Areas?” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Emergent Conversation 13 ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime, 31 August 2021.
“Why Police Reform Won't Do the Trick in Colombia.” The Oxford University Politics Blog, 24 June, 2021.
“COVID-19 in Colombia’s Borderlands and the Western Hemisphere: Adding Instability to a Double Crisis”. In: Journal of Latin American Geography, 19/3, 280-288 (with Annette Idler), 2020.
“Venezuelan migrants face crime, conflict and coronavirus at Colombia’s closed border.” The Conversation (with Annette Idler), 5 June, 2020.
“From Regime Protection to Urban Resilience? Assessing Continuity and Change in Transnational Security Governance Rationales in Guatemala”. In: Geoforum 84, 389-400 (with Markus-Michael Müller), 2017.
“Countering Criminal Insurgencies: Fighting Gangs and Building Resilient Communities in Post-War Guatemala”. In: Louise W. Moe and Markus-Michael Müller (eds.), Reconfiguring Intervention: Complexity, Resilience and the “Local Turn” in Counterinsurgent Warfare. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 163-186 (with Markus-Michael Müller), 2017.
“Locating Guatemala in Global Counterinsurgency”. In: Globalizations 13/1, 94-109 (with Markus-Michael Müller), 2016.
“Encountering Knowledge Production: The International Crisis Group and the Making of Mexico’s Security Crisis”. In: Third World Quarterly 35/4, 705-722 (with Markus-Michael Müller), 2014.