A little more than two years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has put the health systems of almost all countries and also most of the productive processes of global capitalism in check, in addition to making evident in all its dimensions the precarious social reality of the majorities, the conflict in Ukraine has been added too, a turning point that outlines a geopolitical and geostrategic reconfiguration and envisions a new international order where the poles of power of the 21st century seek to reposition themselves as preponderant actors, such as the United States, Russia, China or the European Union. We are probably at the decline stage of the post-Cold War world order, in which the market economy and liberal democracy predominated as the two main pillars' undisputed rise of the model represented by globalization.

The multiplicity of actors and their growing interdependence contrasts with the voices and processes that announce the end of globalization as we have known it up to now. The enormous challenges on a planetary scale, such as environmental problems, the possibility of escalation of open armed conflicts, the exacerbation of violence, the fragility of institutions, the growing vulnerability of all forms of life and of a large part of societies, the dizzying increase in the mobility of millions of millions of people, and the growing number of people living in the world's poorest countries, the vertiginous increase in the mobility of millions of people seeking refuge in other latitudes due to local and regional conflicts that threaten to become global conflagrations, as well as the immense challenges due to the food and health crisis, keep world peace at permanent risk and confront us with an immediate future full of uncertainty.

The three countries that make up North America are immersed in this situation, key players with their own particular interests and internal problems that complicate the integration processes by placing national security above financial and commercial interests, which leave us wondering: How does the current energy supply crisis affect each of the three countries? How will Russia's isolation by the West affect the functioning of value chains in the world economy? What role will the North American region play in the scenario of a new international order? What are the expectations in the various fields of the social sciences and humanities in the post-pandemic world?

To answer these and other questions, discuss and analyze diverse topics that encompass a wide range of approaches from a multi- and interdisciplinary perspective, the Center for research on North America (CISAN-UNAM) through the North Americanists Network (REDAN) calls for participation in our Second Biannual North American Studies Congress: Is globalization in crisis?

OBJECTIVES

• Promote the interaction among specialists in different aspects relevant to the North American region and encourage the participation of young people who are venturing into the research of new thematic lines in our field of studies in the context of post-pandemic scenarios.
• Discuss about the current crisis regarding globalization and the possible directions that regional integration processes could take from a comparative perspective, taking into account the European, Asian and South American experiences, etc., to contrast them with the North American regional context.
• Analyze Mexico's relations with the United States and Canada as trade partners, in terms of cooperation, as well as recent socio-cultural manifestations in the North American region.
• Identify which are the emerging social processes and how they are manifested in the current information society, as well as the policies that prevail in the trilateral relationship within the T-MEC
• Contribute to the research, teaching and innovation agendas, as well as to the creation of new projects and lines of research for North American studies, congruent with the current situation of the post-pandemic world and facing the globalization crisis.