Taking Stock of Mexico's Security Landscape
The Wilson Center's Mexico Institute invites you to attend its fifth annual Mexican security review. The forum will provide a careful examination of security challenges in Mexico, featuring presentations from leading policy analysts, including David Shirk, Viridiana Rios, Matthew Ingram, and others. Of particular interest will be a review of 2017 and a discussion of trends in 2018, including establishing new bonds in U.S.-Mexico military-to-military relations and strengthening the rule of law in Mexico. We will also be launching a new book The Missing Reform: Strengthening the Rule of Law in Mexico, which analyzes the concrete obstacles that Mexico faces to implement the rule of law and provides a series of short reflections from leading Mexican and U.S. analysts on recommendations for strengthening the rule of law in Mexico. We hope you will be able to join us for this informative event.
Agenda
8:30am Arrival and Registration
8:45am Opening Remarks
Duncan Wood, Director, Mexico Institute, Wilson Center
9:00am Building New Bonds in U.S.-Mexico Military-to-Military Relations
Craig Deare, College of International Security Affairs, NDU
Rebecca Bill Chavez, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Gerardo Rodríguez Sánchez Lara, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico
Iñigo Guevara, Director at Jane’s Aerospace, Defense and Security, and Mexico Institute Global Fellow
Moderator: Duncan Wood, Director, Mexico Institute, WIlson Center
10:30am Keynote Address
Mariclaire Acosta, Comité de Participación Ciudadana del Sistema Nacional Anticorrupción
11:00am Coffee Break
11:15am-1:00pm The Missing Reform: Strengthening the Rule of Law in Mexico
Viridiana Rios, Mexico Institute Global Fellow
Matthew Ingram, SUNY-Albany
David Shirk, USD, Justice in Mexico Project
Enrique Betancourt, Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, Chemonics
Moderator: Eric L. Olson, Mexico Institute, Wilson Center
Event Sponsors
Speakers
Columnist, El Pais; Instructor of US-Mexico politics at Harvard Summer School
Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of San Diego; Director, "Justice in Mexico" Project
Introduction
Moderator
Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives, Seattle International Foundation
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Mexico Institute
The Mexico Institute seeks to improve understanding, communication, and cooperation between Mexico and the United States by promoting original research, encouraging public discussion, and proposing policy options for enhancing the bilateral relationship. A binational Advisory Board, chaired by Luis Téllez and Earl Anthony Wayne, oversees the work of the Mexico Institute. Read more