Since 1983, Argentina adopted a high profile in the provision of three regional public goods: interstate security, democracy and human rights. However, Argentina has made different institutional choices, between the OAS, Unasur and Mercosur, depending on the public good in question. Argentina has therefore contributed to the institutional creation to cooperate in the security are; has practiced institutional selection to promote democracy and has made institutional use to promote human rights. What factors explain this variation in the institutional choice of Argentina? This paper examines Argentina's institutional choices for the provision of three regional public goods, namely interstate security, democracy and human rights. The study focuses on recent institutional choice (from 2003 onwards) and contrasts with the immediate past (the decade of the 1990s) and longest (since the creation of the OAS), to identify changes and continuities in Argentina's institutional choices.
Argentina; Foreign Policy; Institutional Investment; OAS; Unasur; Mercosur
