The Foreign Policy of Contemporary Argentina. Between the Search for Autonomy and the Acceptance of Subordination

Abstract

The foreign policy of Latin American countries is debated between two antagonistic positions. The logics of autonomy, on one hand, and the logic of globalism, on the other. Both views are based on a common diagnosis: the weakness of the countries of the region. However, from there they differ in their proposals. While the first presents a confrontational scenario against the powers, the second seeks an adaptive path. This “Latin American pendulum”, resulting in foreign policies oscillating according to the government, is perhaps most radical in Argentina. In this key, the present work analyzes the foreign policy of the governments of Mauricio Macri (2015–2019) and Alberto Fernández (2019–2023), seeking to understand if they put into practice the conceptual ideological foundations that they tried to impose from their actions.