BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA: THE END OF THE OFFICIAL CORDIALITY FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF LOGICS OF ANARCHY

• Main Authors: Ariane Costa dos Santos, Thiago Moreira de Souza Rodrigues
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Marinha do Brasil, Escola de Guerra Naval 2017-08-01
• Series: Revista da Escola de Guerra Naval
• Subjects: brazil; argentina; bilateral relations; 1980s; cultures of anarchy
• Online Access: https://revista.egn.mar.mil.br/index.php/revistadaegn/article/view/561/pdf

This article aims to analyze the bilateral relations between Brazil and Argentina in the transition from the 1970s to the 1980s, a period marked by a paradigm shift in the relations between both neighbors, which had traditionally been characterized by an official cordiality, with intermittent periods of cooperation and conflict. In this perspective, we seek to analyze, in the light of Alexander Wendt’s theory (1999), and based on the Wendtian concept of cultures of anarchy, the paradigm shift observed in this bilateral relationship, which carried important implications for the two greatest economies in South America during the 20th century.