Neoliberal Crisis, Social Demands, and Foreign Policy in Kirchnerist Argentina*

Busso, Anabella

doi:10.1590/S0102-8529.2016380100003

Abstract

Traditionally, Argentine foreign policy has been regarded as the domain of the executive, and a laudable expression of realism. Perspectives that include domestic variables as a source of foreign policy have only emerged relatively recently, and have only assumed importance in a redemocratised Argentina in the course of its recurrent economic and political crises in the late 20^th and early 21^st century. This dynamic was particularly marked during and after the crisis of 2001. As a result, Kirchnerist foreign policy was affected by a range of complex domestic factors. The aim of this article is to show how those factors drove the governments of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, without abandoning executive primacy, to prioritise a neodevelopmental economic model, and combine them with an autonomous foreign policy which they believed to be the only way to meet the social demands of those affected by the neoliberal crisis.

Keywords:
Foreign Policy; Public Policy; Crisis; Domestic Constraints; Kirchnerism

[1] Anabella Busso is a researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Argentina. She heads the Research Institute of the School of Political Science and International Relations at the National University of Rosario, and is a professor of international politics and Latin American foreign policy at the same university. She also teaches graduate courses at other institutions in Argentina and abroad. She specialises in Argentine foreign policy, American foreign policy on Latin America, and relations between Argentina and the USA. She is the vice-president of the Argentina Society of Political Analysis

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Neoliberal Crisis, Social Demands, and Foreign Policy in Kirchnerist Argentina*

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