Profile
Roberto Zepeda has a doctorate in political and social sciences with a specialization in international relations, a master’s in North American Studies, and a bachelor’s in communications sciences. He is currently a fulltime researcher at CISAN. He has published and edited books in publishing houses in Mexico, the United States, and the United Kingdom, as well as articles in national and international academic journals.
He has been an associate professor at the University of Sheffield Department of Politics as well as its Department of Hispanic Studies. He has also given classes in international relations at different universities in Mexico.
He did a post-doctoral stay at the UNAM Institute of Social Research.
His lines of research focus on the study of sub-national government relations in North America, with an interdisciplinary approach.
He is a member of the Mexican Association of International Studies (AMEI), the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), and the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS). He has also belonged to the National System of Researchers (SNI), Level 1, since January 2014.
Position:
Regional and Interregional Studies Area and Coordinator of Academic Areas
Research Areas
Recent Publications
Barrón, Juan Carlos; Zepeda, Roberto; Calderón, Jorge; Ballesteros, Carlos (2026), América del Norte en el nuevo orden mundial: Desglobalización y conflictos geopolíticos, CISAN, UNAM.
Tigau, Camelia; Alejo, Antonio; Zepeda, Roberto (2026), Diplomacia de las movilidades humanas. Perspectivas alternativas, activismo y comunicación responsable en las Américas, Europa y Asia. CISAN UNAM.
Ballesteros, Carlos; Barrón, Juan Carlos; Zepeda, Roberto (coord.) (2024), Un cambio de época. América del Norte y la intervención rusa en Ucrania. Geopolítica y nuevas dinámicas de la globalización, CISAN UNAM.
Zepeda, Roberto; Calderón, Jorge; Juan Carlos Barrón y Brenda Calderón (coord.) (2021), Integración Económica y Política Comercial en América del Norte. Su impacto en la Hacienda Pública de México, CISAN-UNAM.
Dávalos, Elisa; Roberto Zepeda y Marco Gómez (coord.) (2020), El Acuerdo de Comercio México-Estados Unidos-Canadá: ¿Integración o desintegración? Transformaciones Recientes en América del Norte, México: UNAM.
Zepeda, Roberto (2021), “Canada-Mexico Economic Relations During the NAFTA Era”, Beezley, William (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, Oxford University Press.
Zepeda, Roberto (2019), Dinámicas subnacionales en América del Norte. México, CISAN-UNAM.
Zepeda, Roberto y Jorge Virchez (2019), “The role of subnational actors in North America during the NAFTA renegotiation”, Geography Notebooks, 2(2019) 2: 87-102. ISSN 2611-7207.
Zepeda, Roberto (2018), “Transborder Paradiplomacy and Global Problems”, Voices of Mexico, no. 107, pp. 103-107.
Zepeda, Roberto (2018), “La paradiplomacia de las provincias canadienses: los casos de Quebec, Alberta y Columbia Británica”, Revista de Relaciones Internacionales de la UNAM, núm. 130, enero- abril, pp. 53-77.
