Francisco Rodriguez-Jimenez is a professor at the University of Extremadura, Spain, and a member of the Global Studies-USAL project. He is currently directing a research project called US Public Diplomacy Strategies in Latin America. He coedited the following books: “US Public Diplomacy and Democratization in Spain,” “El Portugal salazarista frente a la democracia,” “Estrategias de Diplomacia Cultural,” and “Mujeres universitarias en España y América Latina.” Rodriguez-Jimenez has served as an international reviewer for the European Research Agency, and he writes regularly for El Mundo. He received his PhD in 2009 from the University of Salamanca in Spain, before working as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard and a Fulbright scholar at George Washington University.