Bridging tumultuous waters:

Macri’s foreign policy (2015-2018)

Abstract

In the 2015 election campaign, Mauricio Macri advocated substantive changes in Argentina’s relations with the world, a clear slogan that a great "change in the external" would accompany the strong "change in the internal" of the domestic sphere posed by the Cambiemos coalition. Nearing the end of the three-year term of office, it is pertinent to ask the following questions regarding Argentina's foreign policy during the government of Mauricio Macri: What have been the systemic determinants of foreign policy in recent years? What were the premises with which the government of Cambiemos made its first steps in foreign policy? What internal priorities marked the external objectives? What type of political leadership does Macri represent? These are some of the questions to be explored concisely in this paper, also taking the dominant agenda items and the figures of Argentinean diplomacy as the edges of the discussion.