Hernández Martínez, David

David Hernández Martínez is a Professor of International Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Further, he is a member of the Taller de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos (TEIM) and the Complutense Research Group on the Maghreb and the Middle East. He has been a researcher at the Real Instituto Elcano, the Middle East Centre, the London School of Economics, UK, and the Department of Political Science and the Department of Arab Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, among others. His main research is on regional dynamics in the Persian Gulf, international relations in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, and Spanish foreign policy towards the Arab and Muslim world.

José Miguel Calvillo Cisneros is the Director of the Research Group: Security, Development and Communication in International Society and a Professor of International Relations and Global History at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has extensive professional experience in the international cooperation sector, having worked for the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), for several NGOs and in the international consultancy sector. His research focuses on international cooperation and humanitarian action, international migration and security and development, with a special focus on the case of Afghanistan.