Dorian Kantor is a political scientist whose research examines U.S. security policy, international law, and contemporary armed conflict. His work focuses on the strategic and legal dimensions of emerging military technologies — most recently the use of commercial and military drones by state and non-state actors in Ukraine and Latin America — and engages broader questions about U.S. foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere, democratic governance, and executive power.

Kantor completed his doctoral research at Freie Universität Berlin and George Mason University, where he analyzed the expansion of presidential authority in the context of the Global War on Terror. He has held academic positions in the United States, Germany, Colombia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. From 2020 to 2025, he served as Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, where he taught courses on U.S. government, national security, and international law.

His policy work complements his scholarly research. He has advised the Colombian and U.S. Armed Forces on disruptive technologies, border security, and migration, and served as a National Security Fellow at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Dorian Kantor`s latest publications are Contested Skies I: Drone Proliferation and Regulation in Latin America and Contested Skies II: Latin America’s Evolving Criminal Innovation; both published by Florida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy.