Contact:	Laurie Mellas-Ramirez, 277-5915
April 3, 2002 UNM CONFERENCE EXPLORES NAFTA, AMERICAS INTEGRATION The University of New Mexico Latin American and Iberian Institute will host the day-long conference "Integration in the Americas: Where Do We Go from Here?" at the UNM Law School Moot Courtroom Friday, April 5. The conference is supported by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. UNM students are encouraged to attend. Call 277-6839 to register. Due to space limitations, the event is closed to the public. Participants will review what has been learned from the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and MERCOSUR (Mercado Comun del Cono Sur/Southern Cone Common Market) experiences and identify policy issues that need to be addressed during the FTAA (Free Trade Agreement of the Americas) negotiations as well as how to successfully manage any agreement that is reached. UNM Professor of Political Science Bill Stanley will give the welcome at 8 a.m. followed with presentations by twelve scholars from the United States and Latin America on four panels. They are: 8:15 a.m., Management of monetary, exchange rates and capital market issues, with Geoffrey Bannister, senior economist, International Monetary Fund, Timothy Canova, UNM law professor, Helson Braga, professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and GetulioVargas Foundation, Brazil. Discussant: Donald Coes, UNM professor of economics. 10:30 a.m., Equity and labor market effects of trade liberalization, with Mehrene Larudee, professor of economics, University of Kansas, Raymond Robertson, professor of economics, Macalester College, Pablo Sanguinetti, professor of economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Discussant: Melissa Binder, UNM professor of economics. 1:30 p.m., Integration and Security, with Paulo Mesquita Neto, executive secretary, São Paulo Institute Against Violence, Joseph Nuñez, colonel, Department of National Security and Strategy, U.S. Army War College, Francisco Rojas Aravena, director, FLACSO Chile. Discussant: Mark Peceny, UNM professor of political science. 3:45 p.m., The Politics of Hemispheric Integration, with Frederick Mayer, professor of public policy studies and political science, Duke University, Phil Potter, president, NAFTA Institute, Ken Roberts, UNM professor of political science. Discussant: Gary Springer, president, Hemispheric Resources Politics of integration. ###

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