Panel discussion: Argentina: analysing the results of the General Elections

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The UCL Institute of Americas is delighted to announce this event featuring post-election commentary by Ana Margheritis (University of Southampton), Celia Szusterman (The Institute for Statecraft) and Francisco Panizza (London School of Economics). The speakers will also answer questions from the audience.

The outcome of the 2015 general elections in Argentina to be held on 25th October will decide the composition of the legislative bodies and the new president if no run-off round is necessary. With the current president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, constitutionally barred from running again, and the results of the primaries in August, the scenario is still disputed between the main political coalitions. The Institute of Americas will take stock of the results of this election and the domestic and international implications of these results. The event will take the form of a round-table discussion and cover the political climate, and prospects for the country and the region among other matters.

Ana Margheritis (University of Southampton) - Ana Margheritis is Reader in International Relations and member of the Centre of Citizenship, Globalization and Governance at the University of Southampton. Previously she was Assistant Professor of International Relations and Latin American Politics at University of Florida. She is the author of Argentina's Foreign Policy. Domestic Politics and Democracy Promotion in the Americas (2010); Ajuste y reforma en Argentina, 1989-1995: La economía política de las privatizaciones (1999), and volume XI of Historia de Las Relaciones Exteriores de la República Argentina, 1943-1989 (within a series of fifteen volumes, with Carlos Escudé et al., 1998).

Celia Szusterman (The Institute for Statecraft) - Celia Szusterman is the director of the Latin America Programme at the Institute for Statecraft. She was principal lecturer in Spanish and Latin American studies at the University of Westminster; is a senior member of St Antony's College, Oxford; associate fellow of the UCL Institute of the Americas; and a trustee of the UK board of Pro-Mujer. From 1999-2001 Celia was Director of the Argentine Studies Programme at St Antony's College and she is also a Trustee of APARU, the Association of Argentine Professionals in the UK. Her publications include Frondizi and the Politics of Developmentalism in Argentina, 1955-62 (Macmillan/University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993), revised as Frondizi o la política del desconcierto (Emecé Argentina, 1996); and "'Que se Vayan Todos!' The Struggle for Democratic Party Politics in Contemporary Argentina", in Paul Webb & Stephen White, eds., Party Politics in New Democracies [Oxford University Press, 2007]).

Francisco Panizza (London School of Economics) - Francisco Panizza is professor of comparative and Latin American politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-editor of the Routledge book series Conceptualising Comparative Politics. He is the author of Contemporary Latin America: Development and Democracy Beyond the Washington Consensus (Zed 2009), co-author of The Triumpth of Politics: The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador (Polity 2011), editor of Populism and the Mirror of Democracy (Verso 2005) and co-editor of Moments of Truth: The Politics of Financial Crises in Comparative Perspective (Routledge 2013).