Enrique Desmond Arias
Marxe Chair of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Senior Researcher, Institute of International Relations in Prague
Miroslav Nožina is a senior researcher and Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, Czech Republic. In the past, he worked as a member of the international team of experts at the Observatoire géopolitique des drogues, Paris, a researcher at the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague and a journalist. He focuses mainly on the field of political anthropology and anthropology of crime / cultural criminology. He publishes on the topics of international organized crime, drug crime, and illegal wildlife trade; further social issues in the countries of Mainland Southeast Asia. He is the author and co-author of 17 books with the recent publication Vietnamese Organized Crime in the Czech Republic: Palgrave Macmillan 2020.