Denise Dresser

Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico

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Professor of Political Science at ITAM, the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico and author of El país de uno: reflexiones para entender y cambiar a México (My Country); former visiting fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy at the University of Southern California

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