Una revisión de los condicionantes de la política exterior latinoamericana: dimensiones de análisis para examinar la relación entre lo “interno” y lo “externo” desde la periferia argentina

Abstract

This article formalizes a scheme of variables for the interpretation and analysis of foreign policy in a peripheral country. It takes up traditions of International Relations (IR) to discuss some of them, and to rescue the importance of critical and historical studies as a source of conceptual reflection. It analyzes, in particular, the so-called domestic determinants of foreign policy, disaggregates them, and then claims the importance of a total history and a more complex interpretation of the boundaries between "internal" and "external". The analytical scheme is related to the following objectives: first, to briefly review the schools of thought that have addressed the issue of the internal determinants of foreign policy. Then, to disaggregate the variables for interpreting internal determinants, but in the light of a clear theory of the state, a critical current and a historical approach to international relations. Thirdly, it is the intention of this study to make the distinction between internal and external factors more complex, taking into account different levels of analysis where both are deeply related.