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Carlos Escudé
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Carlos Andrés Escudé Carvajal
10 August 1948 |
| Died | 1 January 2021 (aged 72) Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina |
| Occupation | Political scientist and author |
| Spouse(s) | Mónica La Madrid (died 2020) |
Carlos Andrés Escudé Carvajal (10 August 1948 – 1 January 2021) was an Argentine political scientist and author, who during the 1990s served as special advisor to foreign minister Guido di Tella. As such, he advised on Argentine foreign policy strategy vis-à-vis the Western powers particularly in the wake of the Falklands War.
Biography
Escudé graduated in sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in 1973. In 1977 he matriculated in St. Antony's College, Oxford, transferring to Yale University in 1978 upon receipt of a Fulbright Fellowship. In 1981 he earned his Ph.D. in political science from Yale; in 1984 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship; in 1986 he was decorated with the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins for promoting peace and friendship between Argentina and Chile; in 1996 he received the Konex Award, and in 2003 he was appointed 2003–2004 Ashley Fellow by Trent University (Canada), nominated as "likely the most distinguished political theorist in Latin America". His books have been edited in Argentina, the United States and Italy. His academic articles have also been published in the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, Spain, Israel, Poland and Mexico. He has been visiting professor at Harvard University's Department of Government and at Madrid's Ortega y Gasset Institute, as well as visiting fellow at St. Antony's College (Oxford), University of Augsburg (Germany), Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), UNC (Chapel Hill) and Texas (Austin).
Escudé's academic work is associated with neomodernism and with peripheral realism. These approaches posit an interstate system with two complementary hierarchies that are only partially overlapping.
He converted to Conservative Judaism.
In 2010, Escudé spoke in favour of the Cristina Fernández administration's foreign policy.
He died from COVID-19 in Buenos Aires on 1 January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina. His wife, Mónica La Madrid, had also died from the disease on 1 October 2020.
See also
In Spanish: Carlos Escudé para niños
