Lorenzo Meyer is a historian and political analyst of contemporary Mexico. He is a graduate of El Colegio de México, where he earned a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in international relations, and later did postdoctoral studies in political science at the University of Chicago. From 1970 to 2012 he was a professor and researcher at the Center for International Studies at El Colegio de México, and is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM. Meyer has written several works on the Mexican Revolution and the history of Mexican foreign relations. Among the ten books of his authorship in these areas, are: Mexico and the United States in the oil conflict, (its corrected and enlarged reissue appeared as The roots of oil nationalism in Mexico) His British Majesty against the Mexican Revolution or The cactus and the olive tree: relations between Mexico and Spain in the 20th century. He has also co-authored six books, among them: In the shadow of the Mexican Revolution, written with Héctor Aguilar Camín, Mexico against the United States, co-authored with Josefina Vázquez, or Petróleo y Nación, (1900-1987). Oil policy in Mexico, with Isidro Morales. With Ilán Bizberg, Meyer co-edited the four-volume series entitled: A Contemporary History of Mexico. Transformation and Permanence. It also has more than 120 articles and chapters in journals and academic books, as well as dozens of articles in popular magazines. For his career as a researcher and professor at public and private universities in Mexico, the United States and Spain, he has received several distinctions, including the Scientific Research Award granted by the Mexican Academy of Science as well as the National Science Award. and Arts in the field of History, Social Sciences and Philosophy, 2011. Meyer is Researcher Emeritus of the National System of Researchers and Professor Emeritus of El Colegio de México. As an analyst of the Mexican political system, Lorenzo Meyer has focused his reflection on the authoritarian forms of power and on the democratization processes of the 20th and 21st centuries. For twenty-six years he has been an editorialist in newspapers with national circulation. Currently, his weekly articles appear in the Reforma newspaper and in a dozen local newspapers. He is also a commentator on television (Channel 11, program "Primer Plano") and was on the radio newscast hosted by Carmen Aristegui on MVS. In the field of journalism, Meyer has received two national awards and has already published four books that collect a selection of his editorial work. His latest book is: Our Persistent Tragedy. Authoritarian Democracy in Mexico, published by Random House-Mondadori in 2013. He is currently working on research that seeks to examine the effects of the Cold War on Mexico's internal and external politics.
