Argentina Flirts with Venezuela: An Analysis of Interest-Based Pragmatism during the Kirchner Era

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Backx, Ralph (2016)

Argentina Flirts with Venezuela: An Analysis of Interest-Based Pragmatism during the Kirchner Era

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

In 2003, Argentina took an apparent left turn, and a power couple, Néstor Kirchner and his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, ruled the country from 2003 until the final month of 2015. This work is interested in looking at the reorientation of Argentine foreign policy during the Kirchner administrations from alignment with Washington to enhanced friendship with Chávez’ Venezuela. It attempts to answer the following research questions: “What are the main reasons for Argentina’s close relations with Venezuela from 2003 to 2015?”, “in how far can the deepening of this relationship be explained and understood by Argentina’s domestic economic and political factors?”, and, lastly, “to what extent has pragmatism shaped Argentina’s rapprochement with Venezuela?”

Pragmatism

Néstor Kirchner

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

The Latin American Left

Author: Backx, Ralph

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation: Latin America

Supervisors: Solheim, Havar

ECTS Credits: 15

Language: en

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Argentina Flirts with Venezuela: An Analysis of Interest-Based Pragmatism during the Kirchner Era