Full-time professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Colima. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences with an emphasis in the area of International Relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is currently working on international cooperation for development, particularly the case of Japan. Researcher level I of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). She was a JICA scholar in 1995, visiting professor at the Universities of Waseda and Tsukuba working on international cooperation for development and civil society. On the subject of Japanese cooperation she has written articles, book chapters and presented papers in several forums. Her most recent publications are: "Solidarity and interests in international development cooperation: the cases of China and Japan in Africa", published in Foro Internacional de El Colegio de México in 2021; "Japan: An experience in the world of international development cooperation", chapter published in the collective work "Theory and practice of international development cooperation: a perspective from Mexico" published by CGECID in 2020 and the article "Japanese development cooperation. The State of Guanajuato in Mexico, where public and private sector objectives meet", published in the Argentine journal of Public Administration and Society of the National University of Cordoba in 2020.
Three decades after the birth of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, profound changes have been observed in the international economic system. Today, this intergovernmental forum faces major challenges in implementing its ambitious agenda in the areas of economic liberalization, trade facilitation and cooperation among member countries. Readers of this book will find in it a detailed diagnosis of its evolution and achievements, but also of the problems it faces in the present "crisis of multilateralism", triggered by the neo-protectionist policies of the United States. In order to achieve this objective, leading national researchers from public and private higher education institutions, most of which are members of the Mexican Consortium of APEC Study Centers, were invited to participate under the leadership of the APEC Study Center located within the University Program for Asian and African Studies (PUEAA) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
This book has three axes of transversal analysis. The first one addresses the experience of economic development in Japan, which went from a model of sustained high growth to a pattern of lower performance, but with a great internationalization of its productive schemes and capital flows.
The second vector analyses the foreign policy responses that the Japanese government has had to the changes in the commercial and financial architecture in the Asia-Pacific, especially to the rise of China as an economic power but also to the emerging schemes for the search for a comprehensive regional economic liberalization process, which the first step, undoubtedly, is represented by the 12-country negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (better known by its acronym TPP).
The third and last one focuses on taking a balance of the initiative called "Abenomics" presented by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as a mechanism to deal with the long cycle of low growth and attend the emerging challenges of Japanese society. The ten co-authors who participate in the work converge on the idea of reflecting on how Japan has gone through and faced the hasty changes within the contemporary international economy –now more globalized– in the last seven decades that have witnessed the deepest and intense transformations that the world has undergone since the modern era.
In this sense, it is clear that for the Japanese government, both the Abenomics and the TPP possibly represent the most viable responses, but not the only ones to gradually restore economic health and contain the erosion of the social welfare pact to which the Japanese people were able to enjoy in the post-war period. That is the great challenge that the Shinzō Abe government faces at the domestic and international levels.