Marie-Christine Doran (English, French and Spanish)
Full Professor, School of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Director, Observatory on Violence, Criminalization and Democracy.
Professor Doran's research focuses on South America including democracy and governance, violence, justice and human rights and political legitimacy.
"The Nobel Prize being awarded to Maria Corina Machado is very good news for the fight against dictatorship in Venezuela. But we cannot ignore the fact that Machado supports and has called for a U.S. military invasion of Venezuela and that she favors the European alliance of far-right parties alongside the Spanish extremist party Vox, the Austrian far right and other parties that favour authoritarianism, such as Javier Milei in Argentina. So, unfortunately, her image as a model of democracy is questionable."