This article attempts to identify the role played by the Argentine Council for International Relations (Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (CARI)) in the dissemination of neo-liberal ideas and the guidance of certain paradigm shifts that served as a tool for formulating Argentine foreign policy during the Menem government (1989-1999). We see the CARI as a think tank that connects a network of decision-makers, academics and entrepreneurs, and contributes to the plotting of new routes for foreign policy. Through a policy of "revolving doors" for members and through the production of seminars, study groups and publications, the Council influences the country's foreign policy as a domestic force that is part of the structuring and formulating of the latter, with an international political agenda that is reflected in its activities. Our idea is to identify, through analysis of CARI actions around the most significant topics of foreign policy during the period and through its relationship with key actors such as the United States and Great Britain, Council participation - as supported by the Menem administration - in the way Argentine foreign policy unfolded during the period. The change in Argentina's political positions and its new stance regarding voting patterns in international forums, bi-lateral partnerships, support for neo-liberal policies, the defense of Argentine interests in the Arctic, associated with government support and the active role that the CARI played between 1989 and 1999, show that the Council was attentive to the conjuncture at that particular moment and contributed to the dissemination and implementation of changes in the country's foreign policy.
foreign policy; Argentine; think tank; United States; Great Britain; Carlos Menem
