This issue of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior, compiled in collaboration with the Mexican Association of International Studies (Asociación Mexicana de Estudios Internacionales, AMEI) and the Center for the Teaching and Analysis of Mexican Foreign Policy (Centro de Enseñanza y Análisis sobre la Política Exterior de México, CESPEM), and coordinated by Rafael Velázquez Flores and Ruth Zavala Hernández, prompts us to reflect on the current state of the environment, while highlighting the importance of environmental diplomacy as a valuable tool to slow climate change and guarantee a sustainable planet for generations to come.

This issue of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior explores the participation of Mexico in the OECD and of the OECD in Mexico, with contributions from OECD and Mexican government officials, as well as academics specializing in the subject. This volume highlights the role of Mexico as a bridge with Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as that of the OECD as a catalyst for information, studies, statistics and recommendations for the design and implementation of better public policies. The specific topic of joint work on development cooperation and gender equality is also addressed, together with the different areas on which both the Permanent Delegation of Mexico to the OECD and the OECD Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean act as channels of communication between the Government of Mexico and the Organization.

To properly understand the relevance and impact of health regulation, it is necessary to study the different efforts that have been carried out in distinct latitudes, just like the multilateral cooperation in the subject. This is how it emerges the idea of this issue of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior, which is the result of a fruitful collaboration between COFEPRIS and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Matías Romero Institute. Its aim is to publicize different aspects of the health regulation in Mexico and Latin America to, from a humanistic perspective, build relations, extend the national interest in public health, encourage regional cooperation and promote science and innovation between the countries of the region. 

The articles included on this issue of Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior, elaborated in collaboration with the Mexican chapter of PECC, are a significant contribution to identify, analize and enhance the possibilities of a greater collaboration and integration with the Asia-Pacific region which offers huge and multiple opportunities to represent about 30% of the population, trade and the global economy. 

This issue of Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior addresses Mexico's participation in the United Nations Security Council during the period 2021-2022. It highlights Mexico's presidency in the Council, describing flagship events, conducted deliberations, controversies, and adopted resolutions. Articles on Council agenda topics are also included: pandemics, food security, and climate change; non-proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons; the fragile situation in Mali and the Sahel; the women, peace, and security agenda; U.N. missions in Colombia and Haiti; the humanitarian crisis in Syria; resolutions on the Middle East; the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia; peacekeeping personnel and mental health; and the issue of veto and Security Council reform.

The Matías Romero Institute dedicates the issue 126th issue of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior to reflection on the scope of Mexico’s participation in the Group of Twenty. This exceptional publication will give students, academics, diplomats and Mexican society in general greater insight into the challenges Mexico and the G20 face year-in, year-out as they strive to foster dialogue, cooperation and consensus between our countries. The G20 has and will continue to be a premier forum for Mexican foreign policy.

It is in the current context of these challenges and the questions raised by today’s international  scenario that issue 125 of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior (RMPE) has been conceived as a space for expounding critical assessments and reflections, all documented and based on strategic criteria, on the importance and efficacy of multilateralism, not just today, but over the next 15 years—a crucial period in which we will have reached the deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda that were agreed to by developed and lesser-developed countries alike to combat climate change, address migration and ensure human security, among other priority issues.

In this essentially pragmatic, forward-looking exercise in analysis that constitutes this issue of the RMPE, strategic thinking is the guiding principle underpinning the various topics analyzed. Following brief overviews, the authors turn their attention to the future in a series of articles grounded on specific factors and the actual installed capacity of multilateral organizations and their member States.

Mexico and the United States are celebrating 200 years of diplomatic relations. At the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs we have prepared a program of celebrations that is, above all, a space for plural reflection. The bicentennial is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ask ourselves what lessons we should learn from the past, what is the current state of the relationship, and which path going forward will strengthen our binational ties, consolidate North America as a region globally, and advance the interests of Mexico abroad. This commemorative issue of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior is a clear example of this exercise in critical discussion throughout our shared history.

In more general terms, the objective of MONDIACULT 2022 is to discuss cultural policies in the current context, including how the cultural sector has adapted to the digital transformation, its contribution to social and economic development and climate action, and the cross-cutting nature of culture as a facilitator of resilience, wellbeing and prosperity, while defining the outlook for the cultural sector in the coming decade and guiding the future undertakings of UNESCO in the sphere of culture. The final declaration approved by member States will have the status of a UNESCO normative instrument that acts as a compass for the establishment of commitments by member countries and new cooperation models vis-à-vis the global cultural policies of the future. The connection between culture and development in particular needs to be revised in light of past MONDIACULT debates and in the interests of consistency, to ensure our cultural policies reflect the times we live in and take into account the notion of culture as a global public good. We need to rethink culture and sustainability and this is a unique opportunity to put culture at the center of public policy, on a par with health and employment, with a view to changing paradigms and repositioning culture at the heart of our modern world.

The articles included in this issue of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior (RMPE) aim to identify the complex relationships between social movements, political parties, elections, governmental actions, the performance of legislatures and democratic governance and processes of co-evolution. In particular, they analyse the relations between social movements, political parties, protests and elections in Latin America, and include specific analyses of the political processes in Bolivia, Chile and Honduras, as well as including other analyses of Brazil, Colombia, and the Chicanx struggle in the party and electoral environment of the United States (of pop­ulations with Latin American roots). We hope that reading them will help to understand the political processes in the region and their significance from the standpoint of democracy.

This issue aims to showcase the experiences and strategies of various diplomatic academies to transform and adapt their academic programmes and educational and training tasks to the demands of new issues, contexts and challenges of the international agenda, as well as to the needs, vision and priorities of the foreign policy of their respective countries.

Issue 120 of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior (RMPE) is dedicated to reflecting on what it means to carry out a feminist foreign policy and on feminisms and their role in the contemporary world. The experts share their analysis on fundamental issues, such as feminist theories and international relations, the security demands of Mexican women, the importance of going beyond discursive exercises, the possibilities that open up in the face of this change in the diplomatic paradigm. Mexico and the complexity of maintaining coherence between government ideology and practice towards vulnerable groups.