Antonio Ortiz-Mena

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Academic Background

  • Bachelor Degree in Political Sociology (UAM-Azcapotzalco) 1986

  • Master of Arts in Area Studies, Major in Economics of Latin American Development (University of London: London School of Economics and Political Science-University College London-Institute of Latin American Studies) 1987

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, Major in International Political Economy (University of California, San Diego) 2001. Ph. D.
    Dissertation: “The Politics of Institutional Choice: International Trade and Dispute Settlement.” Fulbright Scholarship 1993-1997. Dissertation committee members: Prof. Stephan Haggard, Prof. Peter H. Smith, Prof. David A. Lake, Prof. Miles Kahler, Prof. Richard Feinberg. Held Fulbright scholarship for PhD studies.

Areas of Expertise

  • International Institutions

  • Economic Integration,

  • Conflict Resolution and Investment

  • Trade Policy in Latin America

Present Position (s)

  • Profesor/Investigador Titular, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)

Previous Position (s)

  • Mexican Budget and Programming Ministry (SPP), 1987-1988. Advisor to the Deputy Minister for Social and Regional Development and co-coordinator of the UNICEF-SPP research project on the social costs of the macroeconomic economic adjustment program in Mexico 1982-1988.
  • Mexican Fisheries Ministry (SEPESCA), 1989-1991. Advisor to the Minister. Participated in domestic issues (privatization and deregulation of the fisheries sector and relations with fishing cooperatives) and international issues (Mexico-US relations and the tuna embargo).
  • Mexican Ministry of Trade and Industrial Development (SECOFI), NAFTA Negotiation Office, 1991-1993. Director of Relations with Congress and State Governments; member of NAFTA translation team.
  • CIDE, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (www.cide.edu), 1999-present. Chair, International Studies Division. Researcher and Professor of International Political Economy. Research areas: the politics of trade policy of Latin American countries, international institutions and the management of economic relations. Courses taught: Latin America: Economy, Politics, and Society, Introduction to International Relations, International Political Economy, Regional Integration.

Other Activities and Memberships

  • Member of Latin American Trade Network (LATN)

  • Member of the Coordinating Committee, Research Network on Trade in the Americas

  • Member of the International Studies Association

  • Frequent commentator on trade policy issues (television, radio, and printed press).

Academic Experience

  • Asistente de Profesor (de Peter H. Smith), curso "América Latina: Economía, Política y Sociedad" (Universidad de California en San Diego)

  • Profesor Titular, curso "Introducción a las Relaciones Internacionales" (CIDE)

Recent Publications

  • “¿Importa el Tipo de Democracia? El Caso de la Democracia de Consenso y la Distribución del Ingreso.” Política y Gobierno Vol. VII, No. 1, First Semester 2000.
  • “The Political Economy of Regionalism: Current Theorizing and Preliminary Observations on the G-3 FTA.” CIDE-DTEI Working Paper 56-2000.
  • “The Institutional Structure of Financial and Monetary Integration in the Americas.” CIDE-DTEI Working Paper 73-2000 (coauthored with Susan Minushkin).
  • “Apertura Comercial y Reforma Institucional en México (1988-2000): Un Análisis Comparado del TLCAN y el TLCUE”. Foro Internacional, Vol. XLI, No. 4, October-December 2001 (coauthored with Jorge Schiavon).
  • “La Solución de Controversias en el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte: Un Esbozo Sobre su Desempeño y Retos,” Institut für Iberoamerika-Kunde (IIK)-Hamburg Working Paper, 2002.
  • “Dispute Settlement in NAFTA,” in Peter H. Smith and Edward J. Chambers (eds), NAFTA in the New Millennium, University of Alberta Press-University of California Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (2002).
  • “Mexico: A Regional Player in Multilateral Trade Negotiations,” in Miguel Lengyel and Vivianne Ventura Dias (eds), Trade Policy Reform in Latin America, Palgrave U.K. (forthcoming 2003).
  • “The Political Economy of Mexico’s Trade Policy,” in Vinod Aggarwal, Joseph Tulchin and Ralph Espach (eds), Regionalism and Transregionalism in Latin America Stanford University Press-The Woodrow Wilson International Center (forthcoming 2003).
  • “Mexico in the Multilateral Trading System,” chapter for the collection The Kluwer Companion to the World Trade Organization, to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Editor-in-Chief: Patrick F. J. Macrory (forthcoming 2003).
Current Research Projects

  • "Mexico and the World Trade Organization: A Regional Player in Multilateral Trade Negotiations." Project sponsored by Latin American trade Network (www.latn.org.ar).

  • "NAFTA in the Next Millenium: Dispute Settlement and Institutional Evolution." Project in collaboration with the University of California, San Diego and Alberta University (Canadá).

Areas of Interest

  • México – USA Relations

  • Political and Economic Development in Latin America

  • Creation of International Institutions

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