Jesús Rojas Venzor

Jesús E. Rojas Venzor is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at UC San Diego. His research interests lie at the intersection of international relations and forced migration. His current work focuses on the emergence of security cooperation on migration between democratic and non-democratic states amid domestic polarization. By incorporating newly collected data on cooperation arrangements on migration, he examines foreign policy co-optation driven by right-wing populist parties in Western democracies. In other projects, he investigates the characteristics, prevalence, and outcomes of such arrangements. He is particularly interested in how democratic erosion and populist-driven foreign policy can foster dangerous co-dependencies among states. Jesús holds a B.S. in political science: data analytics and an M.A. in political science from UC San Diego. He is an active member of UC San Diego’s Race and Ethnic Politics Lab, a recipient of the San Diego and Cota Robles Fellowship, and a junior scholar at the Carnegie International Policy Scholar Consortium and Network.