Three major dynamics are impacting the region: ecological, associated with climate change; commercial, related to the development of new legal and criminal flows; and economic, linked to the exploitation of new resources.

Relations between the leaders of Mexico and the United States are currently at a low point. One key factor is that Trump holds all the cards.

While the old order is dying, the central question of concern in international relations today is the nature of the type of order to come. It is clear that there is no “end of history”, nor is it written that it will be marked by the “clash of civilizations”.