Current Position
 

Academic Dean of the Department of
International Studies, Instituto
Tecnolsgico Autsnomo de Mixico, ITAM.

January 1991 - present  Professor of International Relations, U.S.-Mexican Relations, U.S. Political Process, and Mexican Foreign Policy, ITAM.

October 1994 - present Research Director, North American Committee. A tri-national organization composed of businessmen, academics, and labor leaders in Mexico, the United States and Canada. Responsibilities include preparing a conference each semester and conducting research projects.

Summer 1997   Visiting Fellow, Georgetown University, Center for Latin American Studies, Washington, D.C.

Summer 1996   Visiting Researcher, Carleton University, Norman Patterson School of International Relations, Ottawa, Canada.
 
August 1989-   Deputy Director, North American December 1990 Desk, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1996            Member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNI in  Spanish).

1986-1989    UNAM Scholarship and Georgetown University Fellowship.

1984-1986    University of Texas Armand Hammer Fellowship.

1984-1986    Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States.

Ph.D. Political Science, 1995.
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Dissertation title: Cooperation in U.S.-Mexican Relations: An Emerging Process of Institutionalization.

M.A. in Public Policy, 1986.
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin.
Thesis title: The Mexican Government's Influence on the Outcome of U.S. Legislation.

B.A. Social Sciences, 1981.
Instituto Tecnolsgico Autsnomo de Mixico (ITAM).
Thesis title: La organizacisn burocratica del Gobierno de la Ciudad de Mixico (The bureucratic organization of the Mexico City government).

Rafael Fernandez de Castro and Robert Pastor, The U.S. Congress, The Controversial Pivot of North America, forthcoming 1998, The Brookings Institution.

Rafael Fernandez de Castro, Msnica Verea and Sidney Weintraub, eds., U.S.-Mexico: The New Agenda, forthcoming 1998, (English edition to be published by Lynne Rienner Publishers; and Spanish to be published by Fondo de Cultura Econsmica).

Rafael Fernandez de Castro, ed., Relating to the Powerful One: How Canada and Mexico view their Relations with the U.S.,  forthcoming 1998, McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada.

"The Mexican Government's Position on Migration: From Non-Engagement to an Active Search for a New Understanding. Is it Worth it?", in Inmigration in U.S.-Mexican Relations, forthcoming 1988 by the Inter-American Dialogue.

Rafael Fernandez de Castro, Francisco Alba, Sidney Weintraub and Manuel Garcma y Griego, "Responses to Migration Issues", Chapter 5 of the Binational Mexico-U.S. Migration Study. Governmental Report published by The Commission for Immigration Reform an

"Perspectivas tesricas en los estudios de la relacisn Mixico-Estados Unidos," (Theoretical Approaches in U.S.-Mexican Relations) in Celia Toro and Olga Pellicer, eds., Polmtica Exterior de Mixico, Enfoques para su Analisis, Mixico: El Colegio de Mixico

Rafael Fernandez de Castro, Dahlia Stein, and William B.P. Robson, "Caractermsticas del Problema, Panorama General sobre Controversias Comerciales en Amirica del Norte", in Beatriz Leycegui, Dahlia Stein, and William B.P. Robson, eds., Comercio a golpe

Rafael Fernandez de Castro, William B.P. Robson, and S. Dahlia Stein, "What's the Fight About? An Overview of Trade Disputes in North America," in Beatriz Leycegui, Dahlia Stein and William B.P.Robson eds., Trading Punches: Trade Remedy Law and Dispute

Rafael Fernandez de Castro y Claudia Franco, eds.,  ?Qui son los Estados Unidos?, (What are the U.S.A.?), Mixico: McGraw-Hill, 1996. Author of the Introduction and one chapter, "Cabildeo Mexicano: Jugando el Juego de Washington con Profesionales", (The

"Theoretical Considerations on U.S.-Mexico Cooperation: NAFTA Parallel Agreements," in Charles Doran, ed., A New North America,  New York, Prager, 1996.

"La Polmtica Exterior ante la Modernizacisn Econsmica Salinista," (Mexican Foreign Policy and Salinas' Economic Reform) in Luis Rubio and Arturo Fernandez, eds., Mixico a la Hora del Cambio,  Mixico: Cal y Arena, 1995.

"La industria siderzrgica mexicana ante el libre comercio en Amirica del Norte," (The Mexican Steel Industry Foreign NAFTA),  in Georgina Kessel, ed., Lo negociado del TLC: un analisis econsmico sobre el impacto sectorial del Tratado Trilateral de Libr

"El impacto en el sector siderzrgico de la integracisn del mercado norteamericano," (The Impact of Economic Integration in North America in the Mexican Steel Industry), in Eduardo Andere y Georgina Kessel, eds., TLC Impacto Sectorial, Mixico: McGraw-Hi

"La importancia del Congreso estadounidense en la relacisn bilateral Mixico-EUA," (The Importance of the U.S. Congress in the U.S.-Mexico Bilateral Relationship), Cuadernos Semestrales del CIDE,  1987.

Migration in the Americas. A chapter for a book on U.S.-Latin American Relations in the 21st Century, edited by Jorge I. Dommnguez and Michael Shifter, The Inter-American Dialogue.

John Kirton, Sanford Gaines, and Rafael Fernandez de Castro, NAFTA's Institutions: Their Environmental Performance and Potential. Report on preparation for the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation.

Testimony before the House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, Washington, D.C., September 17, 1997.

Articles in weekly journals & newspapers in Mexico, including Milenium, Reforma, El Universal, as well as commentary on television and radio including Nexos T.V., Monitor de la Maqana (the radio morning show with the largest rating in Mixico), Radio UN

Regular participation in conferences and forums including the U.S.-Mexican Relations Forum, sponsored by Brookings Institution and the Inter-American Dialogue. This Forum, which meets twice a year, includes a small group on experts on bilateral affairs
Member of the Editorial Board of  Estudios, a quarterly magazine pubhised by ITAM and Revista Mexicana de Polmtica Exterior, published by IMRED.