Dr h. c. Wolf Grabendorff was Visiting Professor of International Relations at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador, with a research focus on foreign and security policy in Latin America. He was country representative of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Colombia and Ecuador and programme director in Chile. He is now the editor of the volume Militares y Governabilidad, published in 2021.