In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and former Foreign Minister of Mexico, Jorge Castañeda Gutman, discuss opportunities to promote peace and prosperity as well as prevailing foreign perceptions of the United States in the Western Hemisphere and beyond.
H.R. McMaster in conversation with Jorge Castañeda Gutman on Wednesday, June 23 at 9:00am PT.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Jorge Castañeda Gutman was Foreign Minister of Mexico from 2000 to 2003. He is a renowned public intellectual, political scientist, and prolific writer, with an interest in Mexican and Latin American politics, comparative politics and US-Mexican and U.S.-Latin American relations. He is the Global Distinguished Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, where has taught since 1997 and previously taught at Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM), Princeton University, and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Castañeda is the author of more than more than 15 books, his most recent is America Through Foreign Eyes (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is a regular columnist for Revista Nexos, the Spanish daily El País and The New York Times. Dr. Castañeda received a B. A. from Princeton University and a B. A. from Universite de Paris-I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), an M. A. from the École Pratique de Hautes Etudes, and his Ph. D. in Economic History from the University of Paris-I.
H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He was the 25th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018.
Battlegrounds provides a needed forum with leaders from key countries to share their assessment of problem sets and opportunities that have implications for U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy. Each episode features H.R. McMaster in a one-on-one conversation with a senior foreign government leader to allow Americans and partners abroad to understand how the past produced the present and how we might work together to secure a peaceful and prosperous future. “Listening and learning from those who have deep knowledge of our most crucial challenges is the first step in crafting the policies we need to secure peace and prosperity for future generations.”
