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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, an academic umbrella body for Latin America.Transnational Institute
In 2005, he signed the

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's Porto Alegre Manifesto. 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 Argentine newspaper. He has called the

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a "terrorist threat to world peace".Atilio Boron
How South America sees the Julian Assange case
''

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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 International José Martí Prize from UNESCO for his contribution to integration of Latin American and Caribbean countries.Laureates of the International UNESCO/José Martí Prize
UNESCO Prizes.

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

Antonio Negri Antonio Negri (; ; 1 August 1933 – 16 December 2023) was an Italian political philosopher known as one of the most prominent theorists of autonomism, as well as for his co-authorship of ''Empire (Hardt and Negri book), Empire'' with Michae ...

'' (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 Academic staff of the University of Buenos Aires