https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MakAyVQVWxg
On Contemporary Populism, edited by its co-editors: Prof. Javier Bonilla Saus, academic coordinator of the Department of International Studies and professor of Political and Social Sciences at the school, and Pedro Isern, professor in the Department of International Studies at the school.
The book explores the mechanisms that have allowed populism to operate within regimes that, in many cases, could have developed into democracies in the full sense of the word.
Other speakers included:
- Dr. Sergio Abreu, president of the Uruguayan Center for International Relations. He served as a senator elected by the National Party. He served as Minister of Industry, Energy, and Mining (2000–2002). He served as Foreign Minister of the Republic (1993–1995). Columnist for the newspaper El País.
- Dr. José Pedro Rilla, professor of Contemporary History (Grade 5) at the University of the Republic. Dean of the Faculty of Culture at CLAEH. Coordinator of the Master’s Program in Contemporary History and editor of the journal Cuadernos del CLAEH.
- Dr. Ernesto Talvi, executive director of the Center for Studies on Economic and Social Reality (CERES). Founding member of the Latin American Committee on Financial Affairs. Visiting professor at Columbia University. He served as senior advisor on global and regional macroeconomic and financial issues in the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).