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Paz Consuelo Márquez-Padilla García, Ph.D.

Professor Márquez-Padilla received her doctorate in political science with a specialization in international relations from the UNAM, and her master’s in sociology from Tulane University and in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is a member of the Globality Studies Area. She works on issues related to federalism, democracy, neo-conservatism, and international justice.

She is a professor and thesis advisor at the UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences. She is a Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers.

She is author of Justicia Internacional. Ideas y reflexiones (International Justice: Ideas and Reflexions) (México: CISAN, 2014) and with Leon Bieber co-authored Regionalismo y federalismo (Regionalism and Federalism) (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2004); and , together with Julián Castro Rea, she compiled El nuevo federalismo en América del Norte (The New Federalism in North America) (Mexico City: CISAN-UNAM, 2000); outstanding among her articles is “Viejas y nuevas discusiones en torno al federalismo” (Old and New Discussions on Federalism) in Desde el sur. Visiones de Estados Unidos y Canadá desde América Latina a principios del siglo XXI (From the South. Visions of the United States and Canada from Latin America at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century), a publication she coordinated. She has also published Globalización y democracia. El contexto internacional (Globalization and democracy. The International Context) as part of the series “Cuadernos de América del Norte,” no. 15 (Mexico City: CISAN-UNAM, 2009); and "Conflicto y cooperación en las relaciones internacionales" (Conflict and Cooperation in International Relations) in Norteamérica. Revista Académica,CISAN-UNAM, year 6, no. 2 (July-December 2011).

She was director of the CISAN from August 1997 to August 2001, and of the magazine Voices of Mexico from August 1995 to August 2001.

She was awarded the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 2007, and in 2014, the APAUNAM Award for Merit. A work of hers on modern democracy in the lexicon of cooperation will soon be published by the UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences.

She is currently the editor-in-chief of Norteamérica, Revista Académica.

Main lines of research:

    ● Pensamiento Político Estadounidense




paz@unam.mx

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