Workshop “Latin America: Explaining its Strategies and External Alliances,” Washington, D.C., 2006
Date: 15 de mayo de 2006
Venue: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Organizers: Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México | Fundación Grupo Vidanta | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Objectives
Gather together a group of high level experts to exchange opinions and ideas on the status and perspectives of Latin American international relations with the purpose of defining guidelines for the work on the subject.
Generate preeminent thinking on the position of Latin America within the international system, the main opportunities and challenges the world order of the first decade of the 21st century poses to the region, and the status of and trends in intraregional relations.
Participants
Cynthia J. Arnson (Estados Unidos)
Director of the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Raúl Benítez Manaut (México)
PhD in Latin American Studies (UNAM). Master’s in Economics and International Policy, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE). Permanent full-time researcher at CISAN, UNAM.
Lilian Bobea (Rep. Dominicana)
Researcher at FLACSO, Dominican Republic, and member of the Creating Communities project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Gino Costa Santoalla (Perú)
Minister and Deputy Minister of Home Affairs (2001-2003). Past President of the National Penitentiary Institute and Associate Defense Counsel for Human Rights and the Handicapped, Defensoría del Pueblo, Peru.
Pedro Da Motta Veiga (Brasil)
PhD in Economics, l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, París, France. Former Cabinet Chief, National Bank of Economic and Social Development. Consultant to the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) and Partner-Director of EcoStrat.
Luigi R. Einaudi (Estados Unidos)
Former Assistant Secretary General of the OAS and United States special envoy in the peace talks between Ecuador y Peru.
Rafael Fernández de Castro (México)
Founder, head and professor-researcher of the Department of International Studies at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Director of Foreign Affairs en Español magazine.
Gustavo Fernández (Bolivia)
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship, Presidential Minister and Minister Secretary General for Integration. Former Ambassador to Brazil and Consul General in Chile.
Wolf Grabendorff (Alemania)
Former Director of the Cooperation Program in Regional Security of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES, Santiago, Chile). Former Founding Director of the Institute for European-Latin American Relations (IRELA).
Luis Maira (Chile)
Former Minister of Social Development and Chilean Ambassador to Mexico. Current Chilean Ambassador to Argentina.
Cynthia McClintock (Estados Unidos)
Professor of Political Science and International Relations, George Washington University. Past President of the Latin American Studies Association.
Rodrigo Pardo (Colombia)
Former Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Colombian Ambassador to Venezuela and France, Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Los Andes and Director General of El Tiempo newspaper.
Carlos Pérez Llana (Argentina)
Former Argentine Ambassador to France. Current Vice-Rector for Development and International Relations, Universidad Siglo XXI, Córdoba, Argentina.
Riordan Roett (Estados Unidos)
PhD in Political Science, Columbia University. Director of the Western Hemisphere Program and Sarita and Don Johnson Professor in SAIS, The Johns Hopkins University.
Roberto Russell (Argentina)
President of the Grupo Vidanta Foundation and Director of the Master’s in International Studies, Torcuato Di Tella University.
Ana María Sanjuán (Venezuela)
PhD in Political Science and Director of the Center for Peace and Human Rights, Universidad Central de Caracas.
Michael Shifter (Estados Unidos)
Vice President of Inter-American Dialogue and Adjunct Professor of Latin American Politics at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian (Argentina)
Former Director of the Departments of Political Science and International Relations, and current Professor of International Relations at the Universidad de San Andrés.
Jaime Zabludovsky (México)
Former Mexican Ambassador to the European Union, Deputy Chief Negotiator during the NAFTA negotiations.
Program
May 15
Workshop presentation
Cynthia J. Arnson
Roberto Russell
Latin America: Domestic Politics and External Alliances
Luis Maira
Carlos Pérez Llana
Latin America vis a vis the United States: opposition or accommodation?
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian
Rodrigo Pardo
Ana María Sanjuan
The Role of the Extra-Regional Players: New Grounds for Regional Political and Economic Autonomy?
Wolf Grabendorff
Riordan Roett
The place of Latin America in the Foreign Policy of the Countries of the Region: Political, Economic and Security Aspects
Raúl Benítez Manaus
Gustavo Fernández
Latin American Integration in the Global Economy: the Impact of Heterogeneity and Regional Implications.
Pedro Da Motta Veiga
Jaime Zabludovsky
Conclusions and Proposals for Future Research
Roberto Russell
Rafael Fernández de Castro
Cynthia Arnson
