Revista Política Austral

Presentation of Revista Política Austral, Volume 3, Number 2

Revista Política Austral — 2024-10-31

Presentation of Revista Política Austral, Volume 3, Number 2

Short Discussion on Left and Right in Recent Argentina

Martín D’Alessandro — 2024-10-31

The article discusses an interpretation of Argentine politics in ideological terms, as right and left. It questions the categorization of Peronism as a leftist force and of the coalitions Cambiemos and Juntos por el Cambio as right-wing. This distinction, which emerged from the literature on the “left turn” in Latin America, is not clear-cut and requires further discussion, as does the ideological grouping of all opponents of Peronism within the right-wing camp.

The Importance of Functionalist-Based Approaches to the Study of Regional Integration Processes: Contributions from the Liberal Tradition of International Relations

Aldo Javier López — 2024-10-31

This article seeks to highlight the significance of functionalist approaches to the study of regional integration processes, which constitute an important object of study in International Relations, due to their proliferation since the last decade of the last century and, especially, since the beginning of the new century. The theoretical approaches used for this purpose have initially been framed within the ‘Liberal Tradition of International Relations’, mainly those with functionalist roots. However, there are a number of academic criticisms of the use of these approaches, due to questions of application and validity. However, both Functionalism and its theoretical derivatives, Neo-Functionalism, Neo-Neo-Functionalism and Neo-Institutionalism, have provided important generalizations in the field of Integration Theory and, transitively, in the Theories of International Relations, mainly due to their cumulative nature and their consequent validity to be applied to integrative experiences in different latitudes. These approaches make it possible to explain the reasons why a series of sovereign states decide to found an international organization of a regional economic-commercial nature, as well as to explain the dynamics of the institutions of the established international organization and to study the behavior of the States involved in the process.

State-centric Security and Multidimensional Security: Decline, Rise and Conflict Between Paradigms

Verónica C. Fiuza — 2024-10-31

This paper addresses a policy of greater integration and prominence of the Armed Forces within the international security system of the United Nations Organization and, within the regional framework, the multidimensional security system of the Organization of American States. It attempts a diagnosis of the state of the matter, first basing the analysis on the abandonment of the paradigm of state-centric security in the face of the growing complexity of conflicts and their multidimensional nature, and then attempting a gnoseological approach and scrutiny of the experiences and possibilities of interaction between the international and multidimensional security systems. This, within the framework of a model of reinforced multilateralism in which Argentina gains prominence as a geopolitical actor, within the decision-making processes.

Political Uses of History: Anniversaries and Digital Resources

Verónica Dominguez — 2024-10-31

This article is a first step towards a larger project that aims to describe the political uses of history in schools by analyzing the digital resources offered by the Ministry of Education (Argentina) to teachers and students on Argentine anniversaries on Instagram and on the platform www.educ.ar between 2017 and 2022. It is assumed that there are no naive stories and that school history is a powerful vehicle when it comes to building social representations that create and recreate civic awareness. The presentation aims to outline the background and essential characteristics of the problem, as well as to provide a witness analysis of the civic anniversaries that are evoked in Argentine schools today.

China and Global Financial Governance of the Environment in the 21st Century

Eduardo Codianni — 2024-10-31

The ongoing crises of multiple global systems interact in ways that threaten humanity's prospects. The climate crisis and the financial crisis, two emerging issues on the international agenda of the last wave of globalisation in the 20th century, have spread and intensified to the present day. In this context, China is, in the 21st century, a relevant actor for the financial governance of the environment because of its material dimensions of economic-financial-technological power, because it is one of the largest emitters of GHGs, and because of its progress in the construction of global strategic narratives of its current government administration. This essay proposes to analyse China and the global financial governance of the environment, taking into account its characteristics, narratives and two institutions: the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

The Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) in International and Regional Organizations 2012-2022

Lorena Sarverry — 2024-10-31

The purpose of this research is to characterize, from a comparative perspective, the positions on the Malvinas Question adopted by the administrations of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernández in the multilateral spheres of the UN, the OAS and CELAC, from 2012 to 2022.

The comparison is relevant because since the return of democracy, all Argentinian governments have made enormous efforts to resolve the dispute by peaceful means vis-à-vis with the United Kingdom. At the same time, and in view of the United Kingdom's refusal to sit down to negotiate, our country has uninterruptedly resorted to International and Regional Organizations in the search for support and consensus to put the territorial dispute on the agenda and encourage the resumption of negotiations.

To this end, using the qualitative method of the comparative case study based on documentary research and discourse analysis, we found that oscillations between the different administrations are observed. This is due to the greater or lesser prominence assigned to this foreign policy guideline, their different models of international linkage, the characteristics and leadership styles of the respective presidents and their foreign ministers, and the moments of tension or détente in the bilateral relationship with the United Kingdom.

"¿Y ahora adónde vamos? Nuevos desafíos en el Medio Oriente" by Ornela Fabani & Ignacio Rullansky (comps.)

Said Chaya — 2024-11-25

Bibliographic review of "¿Y ahora adónde vamos? Nuevos desafíos en el Medio Oriente" by Ornela Fabani e Ignacio Rullansky (comps.).