This document attempts to measure the global penetration of peripheral realism, a theory of international relations coined in Argentina during the 1980s and 90s. It includes a list of doccuments from several different countries in which the words “peripheral realism” are included in titles...

One important cultural factor that has contributed to inhibiting regional cooperation and integration in Latin America lies in the intense territorial nationalism prevailing in some of its Spanish-speaking countries. This frequently understated phenomenon is an outgrowth of the territorial...

This paper counterpoises Carlos Escudé's 1994, 1995 and 1997 treatment of anthropomorphic metaphors of the state, with Alexander Wendt's 2004 treatment of the same subject. It stresses the need for a historical memory in IR scholarship, suggesting that the lack of an epistemological equivalent...

This document is the paper-format version of the keynote address delivered by its author on August 2, 2009, to the opening session of the Latin American section (AMILAT) of the 15th World Congress of Jewish Studies, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It attempts to understand the long-term...

This document reviews the consequences, for Argentina and South America, of the rise of China as the world's second (and soon to be the first) economy, and as the most important trading partner of the main South American economies, as well as a very major investor therein. It also documents...