Trade, security, and the U.S.-Mexico relationship
Past Event
Introductory remarks
Introductory remarks
Panel 1: U.S.-Mexico relations - Ambassadors' perspectives
Panel 2: U.S.-Mexico trade and economics
Panel 3: U.S.-Mexico security and border issues
With the transition to the Trump administration, the relationship between the United States and Mexico is shifting. Particularly in the wake of the news of President Trump’s intention to reopen NAFTA negotiations, the trade relationship is being reexamined. His desire to erect a physical barrier along the border raises important questions about security, and implications for immigration policies. These developments all have the potential to impact both countries’ economies as well as their political and social fabrics.
On May 25, Brookings’s new Mexico Initiative convened panels of politicians, diplomats, and policy experts to engage in a half-day discussion that examined the economic, security, and border challenges facing the U.S.-Mexico relationship and the implications for relations moving forward.
Agenda
Welcome
Introductory remarks
Gerónimo Gutiérrez
Ambassador of Mexico to the United States
Panel 1: U.S.-Mexico relations - Ambassadors' perspectives
Martin S. Indyk
Former Brookings Expert
Distinguished Fellow - The Council on Foreign Relations
Arturo Sarukhan
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Latin America Initiative
Former Ambassador of Mexico to the United States
Earl Anthony “Tony” Wayne
Public Policy Fellow and Advisory Board Co-Chair - Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
Former Ambassador of the United States to Mexico
Panel 2: U.S.-Mexico trade and economics
Mireya Solís
Director - Center for East Asia Policy Studies
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies
Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies
Dany Bahar
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development
Associate Professor of Practice of International and Public Affairs - Brown University
Gary Hufbauer
Reginald Jones Senior Fellow - Peterson Institute for International Economics
Antonio Ortiz Mena
Senior Advisor - Albright Stonebridge Group
Panel 3: U.S.-Mexico security and border issues
Vanda Felbab-Brown
Director - Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors
Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
Doris Meissner
Senior Fellow - Migration Policy Institute
Former Commissioner of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
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