Suchergebnisse

Chapter 1: Framing Mexico's Unsustainable and Non-transformative Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with López Obrador -- Chapter 2: People-centered Development: SDG1 in Focus -- Chapter 3: Planet-centered Development: SDG7, SDG9, and SDG15 in Focus -- Chapter 4: Peace-centered Development: SDG16 in Focus -- Chapter 5: Conclusions and Future Research Avenues.

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figure -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Rationale of This Book -- Outline of the Book -- Overview of Main Findings -- On Bias and the Right to Individual Interpretations -- References -- Chapter 2: Mexico from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals: Congruence and Dissonance in Development Compromises -- Introduction -- The Millennium Development Goals -- The Sustainable Development Goals -- Criticisms of the Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals -- Doing Development the Neoliberal Way? -- The "Ticking-the-Box" Problem -- The Need for "Critical Epistemological Awareness" -- Mexico and the Millennium Development Goals 2000-2015 -- Mexico After the Democratic Turn: President Vicente Fox (2000-2006): The Continuation of Neo-liberal Reforms in Economics and Politics -- President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (2006-2012): The "War on Drugs" and Resulting Increases in Insecurity and Poverty -- President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018): The Mexican Moment? Ambitious Reforms, Crisis-Ridden Government -- Monitoring Mexico's Commitment to the MDGs -- The Millennium Development Goals Information System (MDGIS) -- The Specialized Technical Committee on the Information System of the Millennium Development Goals -- How is Mexico Doing? -- The road ahead: Challenges for the implementation of the SDGs -- Final Reflections -- References -- Chapter 3: From MDGs to SDGs: A Transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -- Introduction -- The Legacy of the Millennium Development Goals -- The Discussions That Shaped the 2030 Agenda -- The Secretary General's High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (2012)

ntroductionRebecka Villanueva Ulfgard 1-22 - Mexico from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals: Congruence and dissonance in development compromisesRebecka Villanueva Ulfgard 23-63 - From MDGs to SDGs: A Transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development / Jorge Montano and Sara Luna 64-82 - Mexico's Contributions to Framing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development / Roberto Dondisch and Bibiana Gomez 83-102 - Inclusive Participation in Global Development Governance: Contributions from Mexico's foreign policy / Juan Pablo Prado Lallande and Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard 103-131 - The Image of Mexico Abroad in the Context of the Millennium Development Goals: Lessons for Public Diplomacy/Cesar Villanueva Rivas 132-1626 - Insecurity in Mexico and the 2030 Development Agenda/Abelardo Rodriguez Sumano 163-191 - Sustainable Development Goals on Poverty and Inequality and their Relationship to Social Policy in Mexico / Araceli Damian 192-224 - Migration and the Development Agenda Beyond 2015: A view from Mexico / Javier Urbano 225-247 - Environmental Sustainability in the 2030 Agenda: Is Mexico up to the task? / Simone Lucatello 195-216 - Indigenous Peoples and Mexico's Contributions to the 2030 Agenda / Gustavo Torres Cisneros 217-239 - Resistance by Indigenous Peoples to the Wind Park on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca / Raul Cabrera Amador 240-264

Abstract
This article inquires the charismatic populism of López Obrador (AMLO) and Mexico's return to hyper-presidentialism. Drawing on the literature on populism and hyper-presidentialism it explores the tension between charismatic populist leadership and independent institutions, especially the Supreme Court and the National Electoral Institute serving as a counterbalance to the president's agenda, which aims for institutional 'transformation'. The main argument, that AMLO is defying the integrity and independence of these institutions, is sustained by analyzing a) the Zaldívar Law named after the former Supreme Court President, a last-minute amendment that would extend his term; b) the public consultation on the prosecution of former presidents; c) the recall vote, and d) the electoral reform. The article concludes that AMLO's charismatic populism, his transgression of constitutional constraints to the executive power and use of meta-constitutional powers means a return to hyper-presidentialism, which also raises concerns about Mexico's struggling democracy.

This article focuses on Mexico's struggle with development—reflected in the country's continuing persistent poverty, inequality, lack of inclusion, and social mobility—as Mexico finds itself caught between global compromises (the Millennium Development Goals, 2000‐15; the Sustainable Development Goals, 2015‐30) on one hand and National Development Plans (NDP) on the other. I analyze three consecutive NDP since the transition to democracy in 2000 and look ahead to announced changes in the "Project for the Nation 2018‐24." I also take stock of how international and national organizations have monitored and evaluated these issues. Doing so enables us to identify, problematize, and reflect on where Mexico is heading with this particular struggle. It has produced, I argue, a certain dissonance or even myth concerning development entangled between grand documents mirroring global compromises and a rather bleak reality when transformed into domestic policies for development.

This article provides insight into Mexico's experience with network diplomacy by highlighting the role of the Directorate General for Liaison with Civil Society Organizations within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We take the Directorate as coordination central or a focal point for channeling specific interests on the part of civil‐society organizations to different areas within the ministry dealing with multilateral issues, which facilitates and keeps a track record of growing demands for inclusive diplomacy. Our research takes stock of legal–institutional provisions for the Directorate, and its outreach activities from 2012–2018; it includes a brief examination of its engagement with civil‐society organizations in the design of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We find evidence of an evolution of network diplomacy in Mexico, and the intensification of the role of the Directorate. Meanwhile, the shift toward network diplomacy challenges more traditional understandings of Mexican diplomacy in a wider context of rapid change and proliferation of civil‐society organizations seeking to participate in global governance.

This Special Issue examines the dilemmas of modernity, modernization, and tradition in Mexico from a variety of disciplinary perspectives covering foreign policy, cultural diplomacy and nation image creation, security politics, civil society participation in domestic and foreign policy making, congruence/dissonance in the implementation of global and national development goals, poverty reduction strategies, education reforms and global education models, urban growth, and environmental concerns. The contributors identify and analyze events associated with the concept of disjuncture and how it has produced fragmented and confusing realities. Implicitly or explicitly, each author discusses the "push" and "pull" factors embedded in the forces of tradition and modernity that influence the policy‐making processes and occasionally give rise to disjunctures in specific areas. How do these disjunctures manifest themselves empirically and conceptually? If they seem to be produced and reproduced over and over again, what can be done to break this pattern? These are some of the underlying questions facing Mexico and its current transition in political history.