Opening up about his book, “La Cuarta Socialdemocracia,” Agustin Basave will be using the USMEX stage to underscore the manuscript’s coverage of social democracy in Europe and the New Deal in the U.S., as well as the crisis of democratic representation at the time. Join the center as he draws from these developments to reflect on current events such as Brexit, U.S. elections and U.S.-Mexico relations. Agustin Basave is a congressman and the former chairman of the Party of the Democratic Revolution in Mexico. He was a professor and a researcher at the Institute for Social Research at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Basave previously served as an editor for the newspapers Excelsior and Reforma, while also occasionally collaborating with the magazine Nexos and the newspaper El Universal. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oxford.