Introduction

Abstract

After months of intense collaborative work, it’s a privilege to proudly present the first Number of the Mexican Yearbook of Global Affairs (el Anuario Mexicano de Asuntos Globales or AMAG); a publication of the Isidro Fabela Institute for International Studies at la Universidad del Mar (UMAR), Campus Huatulco, Oaxaca, on the southern Pacific coast of Mexico. In general, as an academic work, this yearbook has aimed to offer a concise analysis of the events, dynamics and international processes that we consider most significant on the world stage (due to the impact they have on current national and local realities). In particular, perhaps the yearbook’s most essential principle is inclusion. Given the world’s complexity, characterized by different languages, visions, philosophies and positions on the reality that we observe and experience, we also aimed to create a social-scientific forum where (without compromising on academic rigor) we include plural perspectives of interpretation and analysis from International Studies and other related disciplines. Our aim is to publish contributions from different latitudes that offer the added value of coming from direct observations of multiple environments. This explains and gives meaning to the fact that works from any country and in any language are welcome.