Master of Science in Foreign Service

Daniel Sabet is a visiting professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Sabet’s current research focuses on the obstacles to professionalizing Mexico’s municipal police forces. This study explores the reform challenges of policy design, implementation, and institutionalization; the formal and informal rules of police and municipal governance; the negative impact of organized crime; the ambivalent relationship between the police and civil society; and new incentives being created by the federal government. This research agenda emerged out of Sabet’s work coordinating rule of law educational programs for police throughout Latin America as part of the Culture of Lawfulness Project. Sabet’s previous research, which recently has been published as a book entitled Nonprofits and their Networks: Cleaning the Waters along Mexico’s Northern Border, seeks to understand how civil society organizations emerge to address local policy concerns in a political environment that has traditionally favored clientelism. Sabet earned his PhD in political science from Indiana University.