Trajectory of Argentinian international insertion in India and Southeast Asia

Abstract

Since the establishment of diplomatic relations until well into the twentyfirst century, contacts between India and Southeast Asia with Argentina were sporadic, discontinuous and grounded on a weak commercial relationship. Argentina’s foreign policy in this period was characterized for answering to two different orientations: on one side, the autonomist, and on the other, the alignment with the hegemonic power. The objective of this work has been to analyze, under the concepts of autonomy and diversification, Argentina’s foreign policy towards its current economic partners in Southeast Asia and India, since the establishment of their relations until the end of the Cold War (1989). We concluded that the foreign policy towards these states was influenced by different internal and external determinants, and this led that this policy had limited modifications and it was characterized by the maintenance of stable, but inactive links, with the exception of some sporadic initiatives of rapprochement implemented by Argentina.