International Seminar “Latin America: Integration or Fragmentation?” Mexico City, 2007

Date: April 16-17, 2007

Venue: Foro Universal del Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, Ciudad de México, México.

Organizers: Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México | Fundación Grupo Vidanta | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The seminar gathered together internationally prominent personalities from the worlds of politics, literature and academia, in two days of intensive debate and reflection on Latin America’s position in the world. Over 1.500 persons attended.

Participants

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.

Raúl Benitez Manaut (México)

Full-time researcher at the Center for Research on North America (CISAN), UNAM.

Roberto Bouzas (Argentina)

Academic Director of the Master’s in International Relations and Negotiations (Universidad de San Andrés-FLACSO-Universidad de Barcelona). Head researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET).

Luis Miguel Castilla (Perú)

Head of Public Policies & 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.

Cristina Eguizabal (Costa Rica)

Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC), Florida International University.

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)

Professor-researcher at the International Studies Division of the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE).

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).

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.

Eric Hobsbawm (Gran Bretaña)

Professor Emeritus of Social and Economic History, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Celso Lafer (Brasil)

Senior lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and the General Theory of Law, University of Sao Paulo Law School, Brazil.

Francisco Leal Buitrago (Colombia)

Honorary professor at the National University of Colombia and the University of Los Andes.

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.

Luis Maira (Chile)

Former Minister of Social Development and Chilean Ambassador to Mexico. Current Chilean Ambassador to Argentina.

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.

Roberto Russell (Argentina)

Director of the Master’s in International Studies, Torcuato Di Tella University, and President of the Grupo Vidanta Foundation.

Ana María Sanjuán (Venezuela)

Director of the Center for Peace and Human Rights, Universidad Central de Caracas.

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).

Arturo Sotomayor (México)

Profesor de tiempo completo en la División de Estudios Internacionales del Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE).

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.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Writer, PhD in Philosophy and Letters, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Jaime Zabludovsky (México)

Former Mexican Ambassador to the European Union, Deputy Chief Negotiator during the NAFTA negotiations.

Program

Tuesday, April 17

Opening remarks

Arturo Fernández Pérez (Rector del Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)

Latin America: Unity and Dispersion

Mario Vargas Llosa.

Session 1: United States and Latin America: Between Ideology and Pragmatism

Jorge I. Domínguez (Harvard University, Estados Unidos)

Francis Fukuyama (Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Estados Unidos)

Comments: Monica Hirst (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina)

Moderator: Cynthia Arnson (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Estados Unidos)

Session 2: Europe and China: Potential Allies?

Wolf Grabendorff (Fundación Friedrich Ebert, Alemania)

Riordan Roett (Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Estados Unidos)

Comments: Emilio Lozoya (World Economic Forum, México)

Moderator: Ana Covarrubias (El Colegio de México, México)

European Union Foreign Policy

Javier Solana

European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Session 3: Domestic Models, Foreign Alliances and Regional lLeadership

Carlos Pérez Llana (Torcuato Di Tella and Siglo XXI Universities, Argentina)

Ana María Sanjuán (Universidad Central, Venezuela)

Comments: Celso Lafer (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)

Moderator: Guadalupe González (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), Mexico)

After the XXth Century: A World in Transition

Eric Hobsbawm

Comments: Enrique Krauze (Letras Libres, México)

Wednesday, April 18

Session 4: Mexico in the Americas: ¿Between the Economic North and the Political South?

Porfirio Muñoz Ledo (Centro Latinoamericano de la Globalidad, México)

Jaime Zabludovsky (IQOM, México)

Comments: Roberto Bouzas (Universidad de San Andrés/CONICET, Argentina), Abraham Lowenthal (University of Southern California, Estados Unidos), Juan Gabriel Tokatlian (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina)

Moderator: Rossana Fuentes-Berain (El Universal/ITAM, México)

Conference: Social Factors Conditioning the International Potential of Latin America

José Miguel Insulza

Secretary General of the Organization of American States

Interviewer: Sergio Sarmiento (TV Azteca, México)

Session 5: Migration in the Western Hemisphere

Mariclaire Acosta (Director of the Department for the Promotion of Governance, OAS)

Amalia García (Governor of Zacatecas State, Mexico)

Flor María Rigoni (Casa del Migrante "Albergue Belén", Mexico)

Moderator: Rafael Fernández de Castro (ITAM/Foreign Affairs en Español, México)

Session 6: Poverty and Inequality: the Social Gap

Pamela Cox (World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean)

Nora Lustig (Director of the Poverty Group of the United Nations Development Program)

Luis Maira (Chilean Ambassador to Argentina)

Comments: Rolando Cordera (UNAM, México)

Moderator: Juan Ignacio Zavala (Editorial Santillana, México)

Integration and Fragmentation in Latin America

Ricardo Lagos

Former president of Chile

Presenter: Javier Treviño (COMEXI, México)

Closing Remarks

Cynthia Arnson, Director of the Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Roberto Russell, President of the Grupo Vidanta Foundation and Director of the Master’s in International Studies, Torcuato Di Tella University.

Rafael Fernández de Castro,Head of the Department of International Studies of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Director of Foreign Affairs en Español magazine.

Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico City's Major.