Berg-Rodriguez, Alexis

Position 
Associate Research Fellow
Nationality 
Spain
At UNU-CRIS 
01/01/2025
Research Interests 

EU – CELAC relationship, comparative regionalism.
European Common Diplomacy and Contemporary diplomacy.
Foreign policy of Mexico with the Americas, the European Union, and South Korea. Gender and Human Rights

Education 

PhD in International Relations. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Master’s Degree in Public International Law and International Relations. Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset Madrid – Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Spain.
Master’s Degree in Economics and International Relations: Geopolitics - Geoeconomics. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

Biographical Statement 

Alexis Berg-Rodríguez is an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS within the Regions and Cities Governance Lab (Re-LAB) Cluster. At UNU-CRIS, Alexis will mainly work in the area of EU-LAC interregionalism and EU-Cuba relations, including on a project on the implications of the Trump Administration for EU - CELAC relations. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS (November - December 2023) and is currently an Assistant Professor of Public International Law and International Relations at the Carlos III University of Madrid.

He received his PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law of Oñati, (Spain); Center for Political and Constitutional Studies in Madrid, (Spain); the Department of International Studies of the Iberoamerican University of Mexico City, (Mexico);  the Ibero-American Institute of Berlin, (Germany); the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, (Norway), and the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE, Mexico). He has taught and lectured at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain); the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Morelia Campus); University of Coimbra, (Portugal); National School of Political and Administrative Studies, (Romania); National University of Colombia, Medellín Campus; and University of the Basque Country (Spain), among others.

He has an extensive list of publications on the foreign policy of the EU and its relationship with Cuba; the Common European diplomacy, EU’s energy security policy and human trafficking for sexual exploitation. His work has been published in academic journals, including Perfiles Latinoamericanos (México), Revista de Estudios internacionales de Chile, Revista de Pensamiento Estratégico y Seguridad CISDE (Spain), Freedom, Security & Justice: European Legal Studies (Italy), Spanish Yearbook of International Law (Spain). He is the author of the book “La UE y Cuba en el siglo XXI: cambios, logros y retos”, published in 2022 by Peter Lang.