President of the Vidanta Foundation
PhD in International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Master of Social Sciences with specialization in Political Science, Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Buenos Aires. Graduate in International Relations, Department of Social Sciences, University of Salvador, Buenos Aires. Lawyer, Department of Law and Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires.
Director of the Master's Program in International Studies at the Torcuato Di Tella University. Former Director of Academic Affairs, National Foreign Service Institute, Ministry of Foreign Relations. Professor of the Theory of International Relations, Torcuato Di Tella University. Member of the Editorial Board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica.
Konex 2006 Humanities Award in Political Science.
Former Professor of International Relations and Argentine Foreign Policy at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of San Andrés and at FLACSO/Argentina. Research Scholar, Fulbright Program, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (1980). Latin American Visiting Scholar, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, U.K. (1981). Visiting Professor, University of Beijing, China (1984). Visiting Professor, Department of Latin American Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (1988). Visiting Researcher, Institute of European-Latin American Relations (IELAR), Madrid, Spain (1998). Visiting Professor, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Chair, University of Salamanca, Spain (1999). Visiting Professor, Ortega and Gasset University Research Institute, Spain (2001-2).
Former consultant and researcher on the subjects of university education and international relations with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP); the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); the Organization of American States (OAS); the Institute for European-Latin American Relations (IELAR); the Minister of Education of Chile; and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the National Commission for University Evaluation and Accreditation (CONEAU), and the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina.
He has delivered lectures and participated as speaker at numerous academic meetings in Latin America, the United States, Europe, Africa, Russia, Japan, China, Australia and New Zealand.
He is the author of several books and has published over 150 articles in specialized books and magazines in Argentina and abroad, on the theory of international relations, Latin American international relations and Argentine foreign policy.
His most recent published works are: "La política internacional (1945-1983)," in Academia Nacional de la Historia. Nueva Historia de la Nación Argentina, Volume VIII, Planeta, Buenos Aires, 2001; co-author with Monica Hirst, El Mercosur y los cambios en el sistema político internacional, Fundación OSDE, Buenos Aires, 2001; co-author with Deborah Norden, The United States and Argentina: Changing Relations in a Changing World, Routledge, New York-London, 2002; "U.S. Policy toward Latin America: A view from the South," in Riordan Roett and Guadalupe Paz (eds.), Latin America in a Changing Global Environment, Lynne Rienner , 2003; co-author with Juan Tokatlian of "De la autonomía antagónica a la autonomía relacional: Una mirada teórica desde el Cono Sur,"Perfiles Latinoamericanos, FLACSO/Mexico, No. 21, 2002, and "El lugar del Brasil en la política exterior argentina," Fondo de Cultura Económica, Buenos Aires, 2003; "Política exterior y veinte años de democracia: Un primer balance," in Marcos Novaro y Vicente Palermo (Eds.), La historia reciente. Argentina en democracia, Editorial Edhasa,Buenos Aires, 2004; co-author with Monica Hirst, Carlos Perez Llana and Juan Tokatlian of Imperio, estados e instituciones. La política internacional en los comienzos del siglo XXI, Altamira, Buenos Aires, 2004; "América Latina para Estados Unidos:¿especial, desdeñable, codiciada o perdida?" Nueva Sociedad, No. 206, November/December 2006; "Resistencia y cooperación: opciones estratégicas de América Latina frente a Estados Unidos," in Ricardo Lagos (Ed..) América Latina: ¿integración o fragmentación?, Edhasa, Buenos Aires, 2008; co-author with Juan Gabriel Tokatlian. His last book is Roberto Russell (editor), Argentina 1910-2010: Balance del siglo, Taurus, Buenos Aires, 2010.