Foreign Policy and Regional Integration in Argentina: A Long and Winding Road
Argentinean economic and (particularly) foreign policies are often described as erratic. Indeed, the appointment of more than 50 ministers of foreign affairs between the mid-1940s and the late 1980s surely contributes to that view.1 Pundits explain this ‘erratic’ positioning as a fluctuation between contradictory poles, such as ‘Western alignment’ or the formulation of populist nationalist and non-alignment policies (Vacs, 2003, p. 289). What is erratic is, of course, a relative matter, both concerning variables of reference and in the (inevitable) comparison with other countries. However, with regard to regional integration there seems to be an established opinion that the ‘erratic pattern’ is less prominent. In fact, in this area, many pundits seem to agree that pro-integration polices have been an anomaly, even during periods when the lines of action were distanced from Western powers. Argentinean foreign policy had a more autonomous positions vis-a-vis big powers.
The Challenge of Cooperation: Argentina and Brazil, 1939–1955
Abstract This article analyses the variables shaping economic relations between Argentina and Brazil in the 1939–5 5 period, namely changes in the international economy, bilateral trade, the industrial structure and domestic politics. It is argued that although rivalry prevailed in most of the period this was qualified by the interest of Argentina and Brazil in securing the gains from trade and in enhancing their position in the international system. The balance of these contending forces was a pattern of limited or restrained cooperation. If significant trade concessions were offered, their institutional framework remained unstable and fragile. This was reflected in the uncertainty that plagued bilateral trade and in the failure of more ambitious initiatives aimed at economic integration, as those proposed in the Pinedo Plan and in the economic union agreements of 1953–54.
Latin America, Economic Imperialism, and the State: The Political Economy of the External Connection from Independence to the Present
Part 1 The debate: dependency and the historian - further objections dependency revisited the hegemonic form of the political - a thesis. Part 2 The aftermath of independence: the transition from colonialism in Colombia, 1819-1875 protectionism and industrialization in Mexico, 1821-1854 - the case of Puebla economic policy and growth in Chile from independence to the war of the Pacific. Part 3 The classical age of imperialism: the state and business practice in Argentina, 1862-1914 railways and industrialization - Argentina and Brazil, 1870-1930 external forces and the transformation of Peruvian coastal agriculture 1880-1929 British imperialism in Uruguay - the public utility companies an the batllista state, 1900-1930. Part 4 The era of disputed hegemony: the political economy of revolutionary Mexico, 1900-1940 external disequilibrium and internal industrialization - Chile, 1914-1935 politics and the economy of the Dominican Republic, 1890-1930 dependency, historiography and objections to the Roca pack Anglo-Brazilian economic relations and the consolidation of American pre-eminence in Brazil, 1930-1945. Part 5 The new order: the US, the Cold War and Peron Latin America and the new international division of labour - a critique of some recent views state, multinationals and the working class in Brazil and Mexico foreign finance and capital accumulation in Latin America - a critical approach a reappraisal of the role or primary exports in Latin America transnational corporations, comparative advantage and food security in Latin America.