Origin, rise and fall of peripheral realism

Abstract

The objective of this article is to outline the main features of the theoretical work of Carlos Escudé and what his place has been in the studies of Argentine international relations.
Throughout the work we will explore, through a qualitative methodology, the origins of his thought in the eighties in the heat of the debates with Mario Rapoport and Roberto Russell, in which our author outlined the first traces of Peripheral Realism during the first crisis disciplinary paradigm.
In a second nucleus we will explore his theoretical proposal that constituted the central nucleus of the new paradigmatic moment during the nineties. And finally, from the beginning of the new millennium, we will see the new disciplinary crisis that affected his theoretical proposals with the loss of the central place he occupied in the field of Argentine Foreign Policy and his attempts to reverse that situation.