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Portrait of Mercedes Isabel Botto

Mercedes Isabel Botto

Tenured Professor, National University of Buenos Aires; FLACSO, Argentina
EducationPhD, European University Institute

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Spring 2026

Career Achievements

Mercedes Botto holds a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Sociology from the National University of Buenos Aires (UBA, Argentina) and a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute (EUI, 1999, Florence, Italy). She works as a professor, researcher, and national and international consultant for organizations such as MERCOSUR, INTAL, and UNDP. Her areas of expertise include trade integration processes and, more recently, migration policies and regional migration governance. She is a Tenured Professor (by public competition) in the Political Science program at the University of Buenos Aires and teaches in the Master鈥檚 in International Relations and the PhD program at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO, Argentina). Since 2004, she has been part of the National Researcher Career (CONICET), and since 2018 she has also served鈥攁gain through public competition鈥攁s Director of the Institute for Social Sciences Research of Latin America (IICSAL), a joint center of CONICET & FLACSO.

Relevant Publications

Botto, M. I. (2023). Migraci贸n venezolana y acci贸n colectiva en Argentina (2015-2022) [Venezuelan migration and collective action in Argentina (2015-2022)]. Revista Temas de Antropolog铆a y Arqueolog铆a, (24).

Botto, M. I. (2021). Crisis-induced agenda setting in the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). Journal of International Relations and Development, 24, 821鈥�845. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-021-00239-y

Botto, M. I. (2017). El Mercosur y sus crisis: An谩lisis de interpretaciones sobre el fracaso de la integraci贸n regional sudamericana. Estado & Comunes, Revista de Pol铆ticas y Problemas P煤blicos, 2(5), 155鈥�176.

Botto, M. I. (2016). The role of epistemic communities in the "makability" of MERCOSUR. In The EU and World Regionalism (pp. 171鈥�185). Routledge.

Botto, M. I. (2015). Am茅rica del Sur y la integraci贸n regional: 驴Quo vadis? Los alcances de la cooperaci贸n regional en el MERCOSUR. CONfines de Relaciones Internacionales y Ciencia Pol铆tica, 11(21), 9鈥�38.  

Botto, M. I. (2015). La transnacionalizaci贸n de la educaci贸n superior: 驴Qu茅 papel juegan los nuevos regionalismos en la difusi贸n de estas ideas? El caso del MERCOSUR (1992-2012). Revista Iberoamericana de Educaci贸n Superior, 6(16), 90鈥�109.  

Botto, M. I. (Ed.). (2007). Saber y pol铆tica en Am茅rica Latina: El uso del conocimiento en las negociaciones comerciales internacionales. Prometeo Libros.

Botto, M. I., Delich, V., & Tussie, D. (2003). El nuevo escenario pol铆tico regional y su impacto en la integraci贸n. Nueva Sociedad, (186), 114鈥�127.