Atilio Borón is an

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sociologist.

Biography

Atilio Borón received a PhD from

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.Luis Fleishman
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, December 6, 2012 He worked as a Professor of Political Science at the

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and at the

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In 2005, he signed the

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. At the

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, he serves as Director of the Latin American Programme of Distance Education for Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a collaborator of the New Politics project. He also serves as director of the Center for European and Latin American Research in Buenos Aires. He also writes a column in a national Argentinian newspaper. He has called the

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a "terrorist threat to world peace".Atilio Boron
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'', 20 August 2012 He has also been critical of

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's systemic racism. He has voiced his disapproval of the American handling of

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. Borón has also condemned Barack Obama for ordering the murder of Muammar Gaddafi. In 2009 he received the

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from UNESCO for his contribution to integration of Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Bibliography

*''The Right and Democracy in Latin America'' (co-edited with Douglas A Chalmers and Maria Do Carmo Campello de Souza, 1992) *''State, Capitalism, and Democracy in Latin America'' (1995) *''Peronismo y Menemismo: Avatares del Populismo En La Argentina'' (1995) *''Tiempos Violentos: Neoliberalismo, Globalizacion y Desigualdad En America Latina'' (1999) *''Tras El Buho de Minerva: Mercado Contra Democracia En El Capitalismo de Fin de Siglo'' (2000) *''The Clasicos En El Debate Latinoamericano'' (2002) *''Estado, Capitalismo y Democracia En America Latina'' (2004) *''Nueva Hegemonia Mundial: Alternativas de Cambio y Movimientos Sociales'' (2004) *''Las Reformas Educativas En Los Paises del Cono Sur'' (2005) *''Empire and Imperialism: A Critical Reading of

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and

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'' (2005) *''Que Hacer?'' (2005) *''La Teoria Marxista Hoy: Problemas y Perspectivas'' (2006) *''Politica y Movimientos Sociales En Un Mundo Hegemonico'' (with Gladys Lechini, 2006) *''Reflexiones Sobre El Poder, El Estado y La Revolucion'' (2007) *''Socialismo Siglo XXI: Hay Vida Despues del Neoliberalismo?'' (2008) *''América Latina en la Geopolítica del Imperialismo'' (2012) *''El hechicero de la tribu. Mario Vargas Llosa y el liberalismo en América Latina'' (Ediciones Akal, S.A., 2019)

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boron, Atilio Harvard University alumni Argentine political scientists Living people 1943 births Argentine expatriates in the United States