President Arturo Frondizi’s "One Single World" and the Antarctic Treaty as an example within his vision

Abstract

Frondizi assumed the Argentine presidency in May 1958, and, from the beginning, stated that the implementation of a development model was vital for the country progress. From then on, foreign policy was subordinated to achieving this objective, which is why it was characterized as having a pragmatic orientation, despite the international context that prevailed at the time, the Cold War. For this reason as well, throughout his tenure he maintained diplomatic and commercial relations with different countries, without distinction of ideology, whether capitalist or communist. Frondizi assured that in the future we would find ourselves in a completely globalized, disarmed and denuclearized world, which he called “One Single World”. The Antarctic Treaty can be understood as a sample of such thinking. Argentina became a founder country of the Antarctic regime, whereas the scientific cooperation and peace among countries is one of its distinctive features.