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Taking Stock of Mexico's Security Landscape

The Wilson Center's Mexico Institute invites you to its fifth annual Mexican security review. The forum will provide a careful examination of security challenges in Mexico.

Date & Time

Monday
Feb. 5, 2018
8:30am – 1:00pm ET

Location

6th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

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

 

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