STILL TO Come THIS Week
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Monday, April 8 // 3–4:30 pm (ET)
Mexican Presidential Candidates will participate in the first debate of the 2024 election cycle on Sunday, April 7th. To analyze and discuss the proposals put forward by each candidate and their visions for Mexico, the Mexico Institute will host representatives and/or members of Congress from all three presidential campaigns.
Join the Mexico Institute on Monday, April 8th from 3:00pm-4:30pm EST via Zoom for this informative and exciting discussion. This event will be held in Spanish with English interpretation available.
Monday, April 8 // 4–5:30 pm (ET)
In this Washington History Seminar, the historian of political thought Samuel Moyn argues that the liberal intellectuals of the Cold War era—among them Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Karl Popper, Judith Shklar, and Lionel Trilling—transformed liberalism but left a disastrous legacy for our time. Moyn outlines how Cold War liberals redefined the ideals of their movement and renounced the moral core of the Enlightenment for a more dangerous philosophy: preserving individual liberty at all costs. In denouncing this stance, as well as the recent nostalgia for Cold War liberalism as a means to counter illiberal values, Moyn presents a timely call for a new emancipatory and egalitarian liberal philosophy—a path to undoing the damage of the Cold War and to ensuring the survival of liberalism.
Tuesday, April 9 // 9:30–10:15 am (ET)
What role does, and should, the private sector play in geopolitical affairs? The private sector and market-based solutions have the power to drive economic growth and innovation, but they also have the potential to influence geopolitics at large, including advancing democracy and human rights. The nexus between governments and the private sector could assist in lifting lives, providing opportunity, and achieving a prosperous future.
Join us for this conversation between former President of Colombia Ivan Duque and Executive Chairman of the Libra Group George Logothetis on the power of the private sector and its connection to foreign affairs, especially dealing with economic challenges and opportunities in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Tuesday, April 9 // 11:30 am–12:30 pm (ET)
Mexico is home to some of the hemisphere’s largest, most sophisticated and violent organized criminal groups. These organizations have drawn from Mexico’s history of smuggling and close proximity to the United States, the world’s largest economy, to grow into a regional threat.
Sergio Aguayo is the head of a research project by El Colegio de México and the Mexican Senate to compare the approaches to combating organized crime of seven Mexican presidents (from Miguel De la Madrid to Andrés Manuel López Obrador). In this event, he will discuss his book titled Siete Presidentes y el Crimen Organizado (1982-2023) which is set to publish in 2025.
Thursday, April 11 // 11:00 am–12:00 pm (ET)
As the full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues into its third year, Ukraine is grappling with multiple identities on a global level, marking its path towards Europe, anti-colonial resistance, and deeper underlying decolonial processes while fighting Russia's war on its territory. In this discussion, panelists will examine the ways in which Ukraine can embrace its European political and cultural orientation while confronting its own colonial past and fostering new disentangled discourses.
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