Dr. Francisco Salvador Barroso Cortés is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Programs at the Higher Institute of Political and Administrative Sciences of the School of Law and Political Sciences at Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon. He holds a Ph.D., in Political Science with specialization in the field of Security and Defense studies.

Dr. Barroso has an extensive experience in teaching and researching at the international level. He delivers graduate courses on geopolitics, strategy security, defense and diplomacy in the master programs organized by the Higher Institute of Political and Administrative Sciences.  He runs regular workshops and supervises master theses.  His areas of focus include security and defense policies, critical geopolitics, geostrategy, insurgency, para-diplomacy, foreign policy analysis, political violence, and the transformation of the military and security fields.

Dr. Barroso is the author of several peer reviewed papers and chapters in books on the geopolitics of Lebanon and the Middle East.  His latest contributions include, “Lebanon Confronts Partition Fears: Has Consociationalism benefitted minorities?,” Contemporary Review of the Middle East, (2018) (co-authored); “The Contribution of “Critical Geopolitics in the Understanding of the Lebanese Sociopolitical Labyrinth,” European Scientific Journal, (2014); and “El Ejército libanés ante el reto de la consolidación,” IEEE.ES—Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos, (2018, in Spanish).

Dr. Barroso is fluent in Spanish and English and has working knowledge of French as well as Arabic. Francisco is now Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political and Administrative Sciences of the School of Law and Political Sciences at the Université du Saint-Esprit Kaslik (USEK) in Lebanon.