Under the Western Sign: Argentina’s Relations with the Middle East during Mauricio Macri’s Government

Abstract

This chapter aims at analyzing the Alianza Cambiemos government?sForeign Policy toward the Middle East from 2015 to 2019 guided by twomain arguments. First, we assert that it was mediated by its relationshipwith the United States (US) and mainly focused on economic and securityissues. Second, it entailed a process of identity/otherness constitutionbased on keeping a distance from a Southern identity and, instead, participatingin a Western one. In developing these arguments, we will also pay attention to continuitiesand discontinuities between Cambiemos and Kirchnerist governments.