BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: SUSANNE GRATIUS Susanne

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: SUSANNE GRATIUS
Susanne Gratius is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the
Autonomous
University
of
Madrid
and
Associate
Fellow
at
FRIDE.
She was senior researcher at FRIDE from 2005 to 2013 and associate professor for
international relations at the Complutense University of Madrid. Prior to joining FRIDE, she
worked as a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
in Berlin and at the Ibero-American Studies Institute (IIK, now GIGA) in Hamburg. Until
1999, she was coordinator at the European-Latin American Relations Institute (IRELA),
Madrid. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hamburg and the
Complutense University of Madrid.
Her research focuses on EU-Latin American relations, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, and
emerging powers. Amongst her latest publications are ‘El triángulo atlántico: arquitecturas
multilaterales y reajuste de poder entre nuevas y viejas potencias’, in: Pensamiento
Iberoamericano 8, 2011/1, pp. 3-23; (with José Antonio Sanahuja), ‘Europa y América
Latina: entre el olvido y la renovación’, in: Política Exterior 135, May-June 2010, pp. 122136; ‘La política de la Unión Europea en el triángulo Cuba, EE.UU., España’, in: Temas 6263 (Cuba-United States), 2010; (with Thomas Legler), ‘Latin America is different:
transatlantic discord on how to promote democracy in “problematic countries” ’, in: A.
Magen, T. Risse y M. McFaul (eds.), Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law: American
and European Strategies, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2009, pp. 185-216.