Modesto Seara Vázquez

Modesto Seara-Vazquez
Modesto Seara-Vazquez
Rector Oaxaca State University System
Personal details
Born	September 11, 1931; Allariz, Spain
Education	Doctorate in international law
Alma mater	Universidad Central de Madrid (now Universidad Complutense de Madrid); Université de Paris (Sorbone);
Profession	Professor of international law and international relations

Modesto Seara-Vazquez (born in Allariz, Spain, September 11, 1931) is a professor of international law and international relations. For most of his career he worked at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and in the State of Oaxaca as founding rector of the Oaxaca State University System (OSUS). He made important contributions to the fields of international law and international relations. He is considered one of the founding fathers of the Outer Space Treaty because of his writings in the 1950s. He also founded several universities, according to a model of his own design. In Spain he was very active in politics, particularly during the political transition in the 1970s and early 1980s, but also as a student in the early 1950s, when he was a member of socialist organizations.

Academic activities

Since 1961 Modesto Seara Vázquez was a professor of international law and international relations at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he taught international law, international relations, world politics and international organizations. He founded the Department of Graduate Studies and the Center of International Studies at the UNAM School of Political Sciences. He also taught at the UNAM School of Laws from 1961 to 1976, at El Colegio de México in 1967, and was a visiting professor at the University of Utah from 1965 to 1966.

Since 1990 he was rector of the Oaxaca State University System (OSUS) which included Technological University of the Mixteca, Universidad del Mar, Universidad del Istmo, Universidad de la Sierra Sur, Universidad de la Sierra Juárez, Universidad del Papaloapan (Tuxtepec and Loma Bonita), Universidad de la Cañada and Nova Universitas. These follow a model designed by Vázquez and have won national and international recognition for the quality of instruction and research. The planning of the OSUS began at the end of 1988 and the Universidad Tecnologica de la Mixteca was opened at the beginning of 1990. Currently, OSUS is composed by eight universities with fifteen campuses. There are two additional universities built but not yet in operation: Universidad de la Costa (Pinotepa Nacional) and Universidad de Chalcatongo (Chalcatongo).

Education

High school, 1944–1949, at Colegio Labor, Vigo (Galicia)
LLB, Universidad Central (today Complutense), Madrid, 1950–1955
Université de Paris (Sorbone), Doctorate in International Law, 1959.

His doctoral thesis (Études de Droit Interplanetaire) made him one of the pioneers in the field of space law. It would later be translated into Spanish (Mexico, 1961) and English (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1965) and part of it into Russian (Moscow, 1963).

In August 1959 he delivered a paper at the Congress of the International Autronatical Federation in London, "The Functional Reglamentation of Extra-Atmospheric Space". His theory of the functional regulation became the standard theory in space law, adopted by most of the jurists.

Activities in the mass media

At newspaper El Universal he worked on the editorial page in the 1960s and early 1980s, when he conducted the Sunday column "Latin American World".
In newspaper El Sol de Mexico in the 1970s, he wrote the Sunday supplement "The World from the Sun" and worked on the editorial page.
In the newspaper Excélsior in the 1980s he worked on collaborations on the front page.
Occasional collaborations in El Pais, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Madrid daily.
On I3TV of Mexico, in the mid-1970s, he was responsible for institutional relations of the channel, and was director of the documentary Peace and Conflict and international commentator on the Sunday news.

Participation in academic institutions

President of the Mexican Association of International Studies, 1967–1968 and 1982–1993. Honorary president since 1993.
Chairman of the Mexican Association of Political Science, 1982–1979
Head of Division of Graduate Studies, UNAM-FCPS, 1967–1969
Director of International Relations Center, FCPS-UNAM, 1970–1973
Vice-president of Studies Association International (US), 1989–1991
Academic Council of the United Nations System, member since 1988

Collaboration in academic publications

Mexican Yearbook of International Relations, UNAM, 1980–1987 Director-founder.
Ocean Development and International Law, New York, member of editorial board.
Global Governance, member of the editorial board.
Mexican Bulletin of the Center for International Relations, UNAM, 1970–1973 director-founder
International Studies, Complutense, UCM, Madrid, member of the scientific council

Books

Derecho Internacional Público, 24th.Ed., México, 2012
La Sociedad Internacional Amorfa, UMAR/UNAM, México/Huatulco, 2011^[1] (editor)
Un Nuevo Modelo de Universidad. Universidades para el desarrollo. 2nd. Ed., Huajuapan 2010^[2]
A New Model of University. Universities for Development. Versión actualizada de la 1st. Edición en español, Huajuapan), 2010^[3]
La Organización de Naciones Unidas a los cincuenta años, México, 1995 (editor)
La Hora Decisiva, 3rd.Ed., México, 1995^[4]
Una Nueva Carta para las Naciones Unidas, Huajuapan de León, 1993^[5]
A New Charter for the United Nations, (Versión inglesa ampliada y actualizada), Huajuapan, 2004^[6]
Tratado General de la Organización Internacional, 2nd.Ed. 1st.Reimpr. México, 1985^[7]
Política Exterior de México, 3rd.Ed. México, 1985^[8]
Derecho y Política en el Espacio Cósmico, 2a.Ed., México, 1982^[9]
Mekishiko No-Gaikoseisaku (versión japonesa, modificada de La Política Exterior de México); Ed. Koyosobo, Kyoto, 1980.^[10]
Del Congreso de Viena a la Paz de Versalles, 2nd.Ed., México, 1980
La Paz Precaria. De Versalles a Danzig, 2nd.Ed., México, 1980
El Socialismo en España, México, 1980^[11]
La Sociedad Democrática, México, 1978^[12]
Paz y Conflicto en la Sociedad Internacional, México, 1969 ^[13]
Cosmic International Law, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1965^[14]
Introducción al Derecho Internacional Cósmico, México, 1961^[15]
Etudes de Droit Interplanetaire, Tesis doct. mimeogr. Paris, 1959

Recognitions

Decoration of Aguila Azteca, Mexican Government, 1976
Castelao Medal, Xunta de Galicia, 2011
National Research Professor Emeritus, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT, English: National Council of Science and Technology), 1997
Honorary Engineer in Forestry, Madrid Polytechnical University, 2009
Medal Donají, by the City of Oaxaca de Juárez, 2008
Medal José López Alavez, by the City Council of Huajuapan de León, 1999
Medal Antonio de León, by the City Council of Huajuapan de León, 1998
Gold Medal to the Academic Merit, National University of Mexico (UNAM), 2011
Torres Bodet Prize, to the Internationalist of the Year, University of the Americas, Puebla, 1986
Distinction "Gallego Universal", by the Organization Sexta Provincia, 2011
Gold Key of the City Council of Tijuana, 1987
Citizen of Merit 2009, Consejo Estatal de Participación Ciudadana de Oaxaca A.C.
Award "Huaxuacac" 2004, from the Oaxacan Bar Association (Barra Oaxaqueña de Abogados y Pasantes de Derecho Independientes A.C.)
Honorary President of the Mexican Association of International Studies, since 1993
Award to the Educational and Cultural Merit, Huatulco, 2005

Eponymous

Plaza Modesto Seara, in the City of Allariz, since September 11, 2011

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