Mexico and the World
Vol. 2, No 3 (Summer 1997)
http://www.profmex.org/mexicoandtheworld/volume2/3summer97/internationalconference.html

ENGLISH VERSION 11-30-97

IXPROFMEX-ANUIES REUNIÓN INTERNACIONAL MEXICO AND THE WORLD December8-13, 1997 Morelia and Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico EDOMICHPROFMEX ANUIES UMSNH CIDEM UCLA IX INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROFMEX Consortium for Research on Mexico (Worldwide Policy Network for MexicoResearch)   ANUIES Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de EducaciónSuperior   Mexico and the World

The Conference focus is onthe rise and role of trade blocs and to introduce scholars from aroundthe world to Mexico and especially to Mexico's role as

- North-South NAFTA bridgefor integration of free trade in the Americas; and

- East-West APEC bridge betweenLatin America and Asia.

Currently investors fromsuch countries as Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Germany, and Spain are investingin Mexican manufacturing industry as well as assembly plants. Mexico isfar ahead of Brazil and Russia in privatization and resolving land andtelephone communications issues. In the meantime, Mexico and Mexicanistsseek to understand the changes in the globalization process as seen fromunique vantage points of experts from around the world.

International experts willexamine the changing context of global networks in communications, trade,commerce, migration, tourism, and ecology. Dialogue and debate will involvewide themes such as currency values as well as specific analysis of theMichoacán case in the globalization process, including labor migrationand investment opportunities.

Participants (including presenters,session presidents, and commentators) will summarize their papers, whichwill not be read but distributed simultaneously to provide background fordiscussion. Papers will be published later in the Conference Proceedings,after revision by the authors taking into account analysis in Morelia andPátzcuaro.

In recent years the Mexicanexperience has been seen with increasing interest by countries who sharesimilar problems and aspirations. Within Mexico, the State of Michoacánhas distinguished itself from other states by developing a system of sharedgovernance under three major political parties. The PRI (the main partyuntil the mid-1990s) holds the governorship, the PAN (the anti-statistopposition) holds political power in the major urban centers of the Stateof Michoacán, and the PRD (which favors state interventionism andwhich recently won the mayorship of Mexico City) governs in the smallertowns and rural areas of Michoacán. The three parties cooperatein governmental activities and work together in the state legislature tooversee planning and budget.

This special Michoacánpolitical situation and the fact that much of the state's economicallyactive population migrates back and forth to the United States (Los Angelesbeing of major importance) has led us to accept the invitation of the Governmentof the State of Michoacán and the Universidad Michoacana de SanNicolás de Hidalgo to hold the IX PROFMEX-ANUIES International Meetingin Morelia and Pátzcuaro. One of our conference goals is to betterunderstand how sub-national regions such as Michoacán are involvedin the globalization process. We are grateful to the Governor VíctorManuel Tinoco Rubí for the opportunity of holding in Michoacánthis International Conference.

PROFMEX is an internationalnon-profit organization with half of its 88 member institutions locatedin Mexico, half in countries around the world, and its presidency hostedat UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). PROFMEX is a policy-researchnetwork that studies the world processes that influence Mexico as wellas Mexico's interactions with the world. Founded in 1982, PROFMEX has expandedto meet the interests of its over 600 individual members by opening representationsin Africa, Asia, Greater Europe, and Russia as well as all the regionsof the Americas. It is approved by the U.S. Treasury Department to receivetax-deductible donations from donors against their income in the USA andMexico under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. PROFMEXpolicy analysis resulted in making this model for donations interactivebetween Mexico and the USA to facilitate the transfer of not-for-private-profitfunds under the Treaty to Prevent Double Taxation that entered into forcein 1994.

ANUIES is a Mexican non-governmentalagency (NGO) that currently groups 112 institutions of higher educationand covers 84% of university enrollment in Mexico. Since its inceptionin 1950, ANUIES has focused on fortifying the educational and researchactivities of Mexican institutions, for which it seeks to enhance relationsabroad as well as domestically.

President: Luis Rubio(Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo)

President: Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda(University of California, Los Angeles)

Introduction: Jaime Alatorre(Mexican Investment Center)

José Chanes Nieto(Secretary of Public Education)

Sergio de la Peña(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Carlos Elizondo Mayer-Serra(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

Toshiki Jinushi (Kobe University)

Sidney Weintraub (Centerfor Strategic & International Studies)

CHALLENGES OFREPORTING ON MEXICO

President: Eugenio O. Valenciano(Universidad de Belgrano)

Introduction: Andrew Crawley(Institute for European-Latin American

Relations, Madrid)

Julio Villarreal (SiderúgicaLázaro Cárdenas Las Truchas)

Antonio J. Cisneros (Centrode Investigaciones Sociales, Bolivia)

Elia Marúm Espinosa(Universidad de Guadalajara)

Heinz Gert Preusse (Universityof Tubingen, Germany)

James Scott (Institute ofRegional Development

and Structural Planning,Berlin)

Ruediger Soltwedel (KielInstitute of World Economics)

TRADE BLOCS AND THE IMPLICATIONSFOR MEXICO AND MICHOACÁN

Salvador GalvánInfante (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo)

Víctor Manuel GonzálezRomero (Universidad de Guadalajara)

Juan Carlos Romero Hicks(Universidad de Guanajuato)

DISCUSSANTS PARTICIPATING IN ALLSESSIONS

Comentaristas Participandoen Todas las Sesiones

Alarcón Saldívar,Alfonso (ITESO)

Almaral Quiroz, Bertha (Universidadde Occidente)

Alvarez, Rodney (University ofCentral Florida)

Ambriz Chávez, Rebeca (ANUIES)

Becíes González,David (UPN)

Blank,David(University of Arizona)

Bortz, Jeffrey (UDLA)

Bravo Mora, José SeverianoL. (UMSMH)

Bretado Velázquez, JavierLeonardo (UJE Durango)

Brown, Lyle C. (Baylor University)

Bruha, Douglas (UCLA)

Burbano López, Galo Armando

(Asociación Colombianade Universidades)

Cabrales Barajas, Felipe (U deG)

Cano Ríos Jesús,Horacio (IT de Morelia)

Carrillo Barrios-Gómez,Enrique

(Ctro de Enseñanza Tec.y Sup.)

Carrillo Pacheco, Marco Antonio(UAQ)

Castellón Fonseca, FranciscoJavier(UA Nayarit)

Castro Cortés, Angel (ITde Aguascalientes)

Castro Lugo, David (U.A. Coahuila)

Cervantes, Dennis (Johns HopkinsUniversity)

Cervera Gontard, Víctor

(Agencia Española De CooperaciónInternacional)

Cohen, Thomas (Catholic University,Washington, DC)

Collins, Norman R. (Ford Foundation)

Colmenares, Francisco (ComisiónFederal de Electricidad)

Contreras Macías, CarlosAlberto (UCLA)

Contreras García, Jesús(IT de Ciudad Guzmán)

Cortés Rocha, Xavier (UNAM)

Cota Yáñez, Rosario(Universidad de Guadalajara)

Cruz Sánchez, Marcelina(UJA de Tabasco)

Cueva De Anda, Guadalupe (U deG)

Dávila Flores, Alejandro(UADEC)

De León Arias, Adrián(U de G)

Druk González, Jesús(UABC)

Duarte Duarte, Nicolas (UANL)

Escárcega Navarro, Oscar(IPN)

Espindola Flores, Silvano (ITAM)

Espinoza Flores, Mario Roberto(IT Pachuca)

Esquerra Mejía, Oscar (UAde Sinaloa)

Figueroa Calles, Miguel Angel(ITESO)

Fimbres Durazo, Norma (UABC)

Galindo Rodríguez, Alfonso(Univ. Anáhuac)

Gamez Frías, Emilia (Ude G)

Gámez Hernández,José Angel(IT de León)

García Camacho, Rogelio(IT Tuxtepec)

García Detjen, Lacides(UJA de Tabasco)

García Ibarra, Carlos Alfonso(IT de Puebla)

Genel García, Ariosto (UAEMor.)

Gómez Sánchez, LuisE. (UNAM)

Grande Carpintero, Enrique

(Agencia Española De CooperaciónInternacional)

Grijalva Larrañga, EdnaAide (UABC en Mexico)

Gutiérrez, Ivan (UCLA)

Gutierrez, Raúl (UNISON)

Hart, John M. (Univ. of Houston)

Hecht, Susana B. (UCLA Schoolof Public Policy)

Hernández Temoltzin, JoséA. (IT de Apizaco)

Herrejón Peredo, Carlos(El Colegio de Michoacán)

Hill, William (Bryant College)

Ibarra Mendívil, JorgeLuis (Univ. de Sonora)

Lagunes Tejada, Angel (Colegiode Postgraduados)

Lara Orozco, Gerardo Marcelino(IT de Zacatepec)

Lazcano Espinoza, Enrique (UAG)

León García, Fernando(Ctro. de Enseñanza Téc. y Sup.)

Llera Pacheco, Francisco (UA deChih.)

Loh, Eudora (UCLA Research Library)

Lomelí Payán, Raúl

(University of California

Office of Relations with Schools)

Lomelí Payán, JoséEric (UCLA Program on Mexico)

López Castañares,Rafael (UA del Edo. de México)

López Lemus, JoséAlfonso(IT Chetumal)

Lownds, Peter (UCLA)

Luján Luján, Roberto(UA de Sinaloa)

Mancinas Casas, Juan Francisco(IT de Saltillo)

Martínez Gómez,Francisco (UAA)

Martínez Morales, Gerardo(U.A. Coahulia)

Maya Conzuelo, Dulce Maria (UAEdo de Mexico)

(Comentaristas Participandoen Todas las Sesiones, Continuación)

McGee, Jr. Henry W. (Seattle University)

Medina Ortega, Marco Antonio (GrupoFRAME)

Mejía, Angeles Augusto(IT de Pachuca)

Mejía Esquerra, Oscar (UAS)

Méndez Lugo, Bernardo

(Consulado General de Méxicoen Atlanta)

Mendoza Castillo, Victor Manuel(UA Chapingo)

Mendoza Cota, José EduardoU.A. (Coahuila)

Middlebrook, Kevin (UCSD)

Morones Díaz, Guillermo(ANUIES)

Noyola, Juan (El Colegio de laFrontera Norte)

Olmos Santamaría, Edgar(U de G)

Ortega Villa, Guadalupe (UABC)

Ortíz Delagado, Héctor(IT Colima)

Padilla Delgado, Héctor(UA de CJ)

Park, Koobyoung (UCLA)

Pérez Aguilar, Carmen Margarita(UPN)

Pérez Méndez, Gastón(IT de Villahermosa)

Pérez-Ayala Andaluz, IsaacRafael (UCLA)

Pescador Hernández, Octavio(UCLA)

Prieto Rozos, Alberto (Univ. dela Habana)

Ramírez Díaz, Francisco(UA Chapingo)

Ranfla, Arturo (UABC)

Rangel Delagado, José Ernesto(U de Colima)

Resendiz Nuñez, Alfonso(ANUIES)

Revuelta Vaquero, Benjamín(Univ. of Essex)

Penny Rich (Bryant College)

Rivera Delgadillo, Virgilio (UAde Zacatecas)

Rivera Domínguez, FranciscoAlberto (UA de Nayarit)

Rocha Pérez, JoséLuis (IT Colima)

Rodríguez Bautista, JuanJorge (U de G)

Rodríguez Sala, MaríaLuisa (UNAM)

Rodríguez y Cruz, JuánJosé (ITQ)

Rojas Pedral, María delas Mercedes (UA Edo de Mexico)

Rosas, Carlos (ANUIES)

Rose, Jennifer J. (Rose y Asociados,Morelia)

Ruvalcaba González, Jesús(IT de Durango)

Ryan, Joseph J. (UCLA)

Saldaña Ibarra, FranciscoRafael (IT de Zacatecas)

Sánchez Casas, Jorge (ValcerEditores)

Sánchez De la Fuente, JoséLuis (UAG)

Sandoval Lara, Miguel (Sec. deGobernación)

Santacruz, Arturo (U de G)

Santana Rodríguez, Miguel(IT de Colima)

Santos Valle, Lorenzo (U de G)

Schantz, Eric (UCLA)

Segovia Peniuniuri, Aída(U de G)

Shadle, Stan (Misericordia College)

Soto Amador, Patricia (UA Morelos)

Stepanek, Paul (Stepanek &Associates)

Suárez Cors, JoséManuel (UNAM)

Tamayo, Jesus (Red de Investigadoresde la Frontera)

Tápia Maldonado, Francisco(IT Hermosillo)

Tocavén, Guillermo (CIDEM)

Toral Aguilar, José Luis(IT de Minatitlán)

Torres Montes de Oca, Abelino(U de G)

Treviño Montemayor, Fernando(IT de Tepic)

Valenzuela Varela, Basília(U de G)

Vargas Aburto, Carlos (Universityof Massachusetts)

Vázquez Mendoza, JoséHugo (UA de Guerrero)

Verduzco Chávez, Basílio(U de G)

Viso Curovich, Fela (UA Hidalgo)

Weiss, Richard (UCLA)

Zúñiga, Víctor(Universidad de Monterrey)

InitialsTitle

CIDEM Centrode Investigación del Desarrollo Económico del Estado de Michoacán

CONACYTConsejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, de México

CUNY CityUniversity of New York

UAM UniversidadAutónoma Metropolitana

UCLA Universityof California, Los Angeles

ITAM InstitutoTecnológico Autónomo de México

ITESM InstitutoTecnológico y Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

SDSU SanDiego State University

UABC UniversidadAutónoma de Baja California

UMSMH UniversidadMichoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

UNAM UniversidadNacional Autónoma de México