Workshop: “Latin America: Explaining its Strategies and External Alliances II,” Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico, 2007
Date: January 17-18, 2007
Venue: Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico
Organizers: Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México | Fundación Grupo Vidanta | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Objectives
Present the preliminary results of the research assignments and verify their progress. Discuss major conclusions and findings in order to refine and enrich the revised versions to be presented during the International Seminar to be held in Mexico DF on April 17 and 18, 2007.
Exchange ideas on the policy recommendations emerging from this stage of the research.
Program
Wednesday, January 17
Words of welcome and presentation of the workshop
Roberto Russell
Domestic Politics and External Alliances
Carlos Pérez Llana
The Role of Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela in Latin America: is there a Leader?
Guadalupe González, Maria Regina Soares de Lima y Ana María Sanjuán.
Comments: Jorge Lanzaro
Relations with the United States
David Ayón y Juan Gabriel Tokatlian
Comments: Cristina Eguizabal
The Role of Extra-Regional Players
a. Europe. Wolf Grabendorff
b. China/Asia. Riordan Roett
Economic Integration Latin America
a. The case of South America. Pedro da Motta Veiga
b. The case of Northern Latin America. Jaime Zabludovsky
Thursday, January 18
The Security Agenda
a. South America. Monica Hirst
b. Northern Latin America. Arturo Sotomayor
New Factors in Latin America’s Foreign Policy (Part one)
a. Energy. Ricardo Sennes
b. Competitiveness . Luis Miguel Castilla
New factors in Latin America’s Foreign Policy (Part two)
c. Poverty and Inequality. Luis Maira
Closing Comments
José Miguel Insulza
Celso Lafer
Closing Recommendations
Cynthia Arnson
Rafael Fernández de Castro
Roberto Russell
Participants
Abraham Lowenthal (Estados Unidos)
Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California (USC). President Emeritus and Senior Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
Ana María Sanjuán (Venezuela)
Director of the Center for Peace and Human Rights of the Central University of Venezuela, Caracas.
Arturo Sotomayor (México)
Full-time professor at the International Studies Division of the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE).
Cristina Eguizabal (Costa Rica)
Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC), Florida International University.
Cynthia Arnson (Estados Unidos)
Director of the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
David Ayón (México)
Associate researcher at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego.
Luis Miguel Castilla (Perú)
Head of Public Policies and Competitiveness and Chief Economist of the Corporación Andina de Fomento.
Jorge Domínguez (Estados Unidos)
PhD, Harvard University. Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and Clarence Dillon.
Rafael Fernández de Castro (México)
Founder, head and professor-researcher of the Department of International Studies of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Director of Foreign Affairs en Español magazine.
Guadalupe González (México)
Researcher and professor at the International Studies Division, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE).
Monica Hirst (Brasil)
Director of the Department of Studies on Security, Torcuato Di Tella University. Coordinator of the project “State Crisis, International Governance and Security,” Torcuato Di Tella University/ Ford Foundation.
Jorge Lanzaro (Uruguay)
Director of the Political Science Institute of the Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
José Miguel Insulza (Chile)
Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Luis Herrera (México)
Director General of Grupo COPPAN, S.C. and Advisor on International Affairs to the Director General of the Center for Research and National Security (CISEN).
Celso Lafer (Brasil)
Senior lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and the General Theory of Law, University of Sao Paulo Law School, Brazil.
Luis Maira (Chile)
Former Minister of Social Development and Chilean Ambassador to Mexico. Current Chilean Ambassador to Argentina.
Pedro da Motta Veiga (Brasil)
Director of the Center for Studies on Integration and Development (CINDES) and partner-director of EcoStrat Consultores. Regional consultant to the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development (COSUDE).
Carlos Pérez Llana (Argentina)
Vice-Rector for Development and International Relations, Universidad Siglo XXI, Córdoba, Argentina.
Riordan Roett (Estados Unidos)
Director of the Western Hemisphere Program, SAIS, The Johns Hopkins University.
Ricardo Sennes (Brasil)
Partner and Director of Prospectiva consulting firm and Professor of International Relations at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Sao Paulo (PUC-SP).
Maria Regina Soares (Brasil)
Full-time professor at the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas of Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ), Candido Mendes University (UCAM).
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.
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).
