Between a Populist Rock and a Neoliberal Place: Argentina in Crisis at the Turn of the Century
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2016-05
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University of Delaware
Abstract
This thesis seeks to examine the political and economic dynamics that culminated in
and emerged from the Argentine Great Depression (1998-2002) to analyze the extent
to which Néstor Kirchner’s administrated a “left turn.” In the wake of Latin
America’s lost decade, Carlos Menem endeavored on a project that blended populist
political mechanisms with an orthodox neoliberal project in the 1990s. From this
project arose a deep economic and political crisis at the turn of the century. Néstor
Kirchner’s heterodox project emerged in the context of the post-crisis Pink Tide.
While it constituted a leftward shift, continuities from Menem to Kirchner
demonstrate that it also maintained the neoliberal foundation of the economy.
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international relations, argentina