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A Delicate Balance: Confrontation and Cooperation between Argentina and the United States in the 1980s

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Aldo C. Vacs
Aldo C. Vacs*
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Department of Government, Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs (NY)
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The relations between Argentina and the United States have been characterized by long periods of distrust and mutual hostility alternating with relatively brief intervals of rapprochement and collaboration. This pattern of habitual antagonism followed by sporadic reconciliation has turned the Argentine-US relationship into a peculiar case of rivalry in the interamerican scene. However, there has never been a period such as the one between 1980 and 1989, in which the bilateral relations fluctuated so widely between conflict and harmony.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , Winter 1989 , pp. 23 - 60
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Copyright © University of Miami 1989

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