Lisdey Espinoza Pedraza

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Lisdey Espinoza Pedraza is a politics and international relations tutor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She gained her Bachelor's in International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City and her MA in International Relations and World Order at the University of Leicester, England. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She holds an advanced certificate in Terrorism and Political Violence from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has spoken at numerous international conferences and has written on topics such as democracy, migration, European politics, Contemporary Mexican Politics and the Middle East. Her research interests include: Democratisation processes, governance and theories of the state, contemporary Mexican politics, Latin American politics, Russian politics, political parties, international relations theories, and contemporary USA-Latin America foreign policy.

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Mexico and COVID-19: Is the President Ready?

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Neoliberalism Does not Kill Women, Short-sightedness Does

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The power of symbolism: Mexico’s Foreign Policy

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Mexico First?

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AMLO’s Failed State

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Back to an Authoritarian Past? Elections in Baja California

On the 2nd of June2019 Mexico held local elections that proved to be a successful referendum on the incumbent president’s popularity. These elections were the first...

From Popular Representation to International Isolationism: AMLO’s First Seven Months in Power

It will soon be a year since the July 2018  Mexican presidential elections that saw Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as the new head of the Executive....

Trump’s New Wall? Mexico’s Southern Border

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Can the 2018 Elections Truly Reshape Mexico?

On Sunday July 1st Mexican voters headed to the polling stations oh what has been the largest election in Mexican contemporary history: Over 3400...

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