THE EXTENDED ARGENTINE NEUTRALITY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A PERSPECTIVE OF THE MATERIAL CAUSES

• Autor(a) principal: Lins, Fernanda
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Estudos Internacionais (REI)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.uepb.edu.br/REI/article/view/1517
• topic: Argentina; Neutralidade; Segunda Guerra Mundial; Política Externa; Argentina; Neutrality; Second World War; Foreign Policy

This article aims to analyze the material motivations that justified the continuity of the neutrality policy by the Argentine state during the Second World War. In this purpose, the Argentine-United States confrontational relations are essential to comprehend the way the South American country reacted to the continuing strains engaged by the USA since the Pearl Harbor attack, when the United Sates declared war to the Axis and since then orchestrated the event into a rhetoric of Pan-Americanism, largely imbued with the hegemonic American project for the Americas region. Besides a reaction to this project perpetrated by the USA government, the internal elements are crucial to address the decision for the neutrality, especially thetraditional Argentine diplomacy in relation to European conflicts, and the agendas debated in Argentina by social movements during the First World War and the Spanish Civil War, issues that emerged again in the Second World War. From these approaches of the reasons to the Argentine neutrality —internal and external —, this text pretends to collaborate with an analysis, by a bibliographical review, that applies perspectives of different actors and their material interests.