Name: Jorge Castañeda

Tel: 52+55+55400850

Date of Birth: May 24, 1953

Place of birth: Mexico City.

Professional Career:

Professor, Graduate School, Dept. of Economics, National Autonomous

University of Mexico (UNAM), 1978-1982.

Political Adviser, Central American and Caribbean Affairs, Mexican

Government, 1980-1982

Professor, Graduate School, Dept. of Political Science, National

Autonomous University of Mexico, 1982- 2004

Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,

Washington DC, 1985-87.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing

Grant Recipient, 1989-1991.

Visiting Professor, Dept. of Political Science-Institute of International

Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1990-1992.

Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International

Affairs, Princeton University, 1992-1995.

Montgomery Fellow/Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, Spring 1995.

Global Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, New York University, 1997-

Regular Columnist for Reforma (Mexico City), El País (Madrid), Newsweek International, The New York Times Feature Syndicate, and Project Syndicate.

Foreign Mister of Mexico 2000 – 2003

Member of the Board, Human Rights Watch, 2003-

Member of the Board, OLPC, 2008-

Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008-

International Member of the American Philosophical Society, 2008-

Academic Degrees:

Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, 1973.

Licence de Philosophie (B.A.), Université de Paris-1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne), 1975.

Maîtrise en Sciences Sociales (M.A.), Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes,

Paris, 1975.

Maîtrise de Philosophie (M.A.), Université de Paris-1, 1976.

Doctorat de Troisième Cycle (Ph.D.) en Histoire Economique, Université de Paris-1, 1978.

Publications:

Books

El Economismo Dependentista (with Enrique Hett), Siglo XXI Editores,

Mexico City, 1978.

Nicaragua: Contradicciones en la Revolucion, Tiempo Extra Editores,

Mexico City, 1980.

La Renovacion del PCM (with Enrique Semo, Pedro Lopez) Ediciones Acere, Mexico City, 1981.

Los Ultimos Capitalismos, Ediciones Era, Mexico City, 1981.

México: El Futuro en Juego, Joaquín Mortíz/Planeta Editores, Mexico City, 1987.

Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico (with Robert Pastor), Alfred A. Knopf, New York (1988).

La casa por la ventana, Cal y Arena, Mexico City, 1993.

Utopia Unarmed. The Latin American Left after the Cold War

Alfred A. Knopf, New York (1993) (also published Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and France).

Sorpresas te da la vida, México 1994, Aguilar, Mexico City 1994.

The Mexican Shock, New Press, New York, 1995.

Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara, Alfred A. Knopf, New

York, 1997 (also published throughout Latin America, and in Spain, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and France).

Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen,

Alfaguara, (Mexico City, 1999. The New Press, New York, 2000)

Somos Muchos: Ideas para el mañana, Planeta Editores, Mexico City, 2004.

La diferencia: Radiografía de un sexenio (with Rubén Aguilar), Random House Mondadori, Mexico City, 2007.

Ex-Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants, The New Press, New York, 2007.

Leftovers: Tales of the Latin American Left (with Marco A. Morales), Routledge, New York, 2008.

¿Y México por qué no? (with Manuel Rodríguez Woog), Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, 2008.

El narco: la guerra fallida (with Rubén Aguilar), Punto de Lectura, Mexico City, 2009.

Un Futuro para México (with Héctor Aguilar Camín), Punto de Lectura, Mexico City, 2009

Chapters in books

Preface, in Calling All Heroes, A Manual for Taking Power, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Plover Press, Kaneohe, Hawaii, 1990.

The Paradox of Tolerance and Dedemocratization, in The California-Mexico Connection, Abraham F.Lowenthal y Katrina Burgess (ed.) Stanford University Press, Palo Alto 1993.

Latin America and the End of the Cold War: An Essay in Frustration, in Beyond the Cold War.

New Dimensions in International Relations, Geir Lundestad y Odd Arne Westad (ed.), Scandinavian University Press, Oslo, 1993.