Los Rostros del Otro

When professors Pío García, Felipe Medina Gutiérrez and Diana Cure gave me the honorable invitation to write the prologue to this work, my first reaction was doubt, since I am not an expert on the subject discussed here and I do not usually write about it. that I do not know with defensible depth. There are, however, aspects of this book that I would like to highlight from my perspective as director of the Center for Research and Special Projects - CIPE, of the Faculty of Finance, Government and International Relations. These are issues that the peer evaluators themselves highlighted in his judicious work.On the one hand, I want to highlight the novelty of the research on a region in which the great conflicts of the 21st century converge, which has not received due academic treatment in the Latin American sphere. As one of the consulted experts states, "work has been done from Mexico, Argentina and Brazil; however, the bibliography in Spanish is minimal, so presenting a work from the Colombian perception is innovative, and addresses gaps. academics."

Second, I want to highlight the variety of approaches, and the places and physical and epistemological origins of the work of the different analysts who write here, not Eurocentric, but Latin American and global. The reader will find historical, anthropological, sociological approaches, or from the discipline of international relations, all immersed in dialogue with each other, without attachment to dogmatic guidelines. As one of the evaluators states, the reader will find that "many sociopolitical problems of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa are experienced in the countries of Latin America and it is a door for us to be scribes of social, political and economic events." ; hence the relevance of this work."