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The Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI) is an Argentine forum for debate on international relations and Argentine foreign policy.
It is a non-governmental, non-profit, and non-partisan academic institution, founded on June 15, 1978, by the ambassador and former Foreign Minister of the Argentine Republic, Carlos Manuel Muñiz (1922-2007). CARI is a think tank whose main goal is to encourage the analysis and scientific dissemination of international affairs and their impact on Argentina, from a national perspective. To achieve this, it has thirty-one study commissions that focus on specific topics or regions with the purpose of producing documents, creating discussion spaces, and organizing open forums for the community with public figures and specialists within each research field.
Comissions
[edit]Institutes
[edit]- Institute of International Law
- Institute of International Security and Strategic Affairs
Committees
[edit]- Euroasiatic Affairs
- Latinamerican Affairs
- African Affairs
- European Affairs
- Asian Affairs
- Antartic Affairs
- Malvinas, Georgias and Sandwich del Sur
- United States
- Middle East
- Foreign Affairs and Armed Forces
- Agricultural Affairs
- Energy Affairs
- Nuclear Affairs
- Culture
- International Organizations and G20
- Internationalization of Cities
- Provinces
- Transnational Organized Crime y Terrorism
- International Economics
- Digital Policies and Cyberspace
- International Corporative Affairs
- Environmental Studies and Human Development
- Labour Affairs
Working Groups
[edit]- Youth Group
- Communication and Foreign Policy
- International Affairs of Outer Space
- Global Scenarios
- Cooperation for Development
- Argentina´s Insertion in the World
Publicaciones y programas
[edit]Since its founding, CARI has published books, collections, series, testimonies, opinion articles, and other periodic analyses of international affairs. Among these titles are the fifteen-volume work General History of Foreign Relations of the Argentine Republic (1998-2003), directed by Carlos Escudé and Andrés Cisneros; the twelve-volume collection Malvinas, Georgias y Sandwich del Sur. Argentine Diplomacy at the United Nations (1983-2021); and the biographical series Los Académicos (1988-2022). In December 2024, it launched the journal Global Affairs, published annually in Spanish and English. It also produces fifteen newsletters issued bimonthly or semestrally.
In 2024, it launched initiatives to foster connections between companies and officials through the Public-Private Diplomacy Program, for which it signed a cooperation agreement with the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Worship, under the leadership of former Foreign Minister Diana Mondino. Additionally, meetings were held with national deputies and senators at CARI as part of the Legislative Diplomacy Program.
Estructura y financiamiento
[edit]The direction and administration of the Argentine Council for International Relations are managed by an Executive Committee composed of a president, vice president, secretary-general, treasurer, and between twelve and sixteen council members. The Executive Committee is elected by the council members by simple majority of votes present, with a term of three years, renewable. Additionally, each study commission is headed by a director and a coordinator.
CARI is financially sustained through the monthly contributions of its members, as well as by institutional support from other public and private organizations. Among its main sponsors are the Argentine energy company Pan American Energy and the Andean Development Corporation (CAF - Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean).
Presidents
[edit]Carlos Manuel Muñiz
[edit]Ambassador Carlos Manuel Muñiz founded CARI in June 1978, with the main goal of promoting the analysis of international issues from a national perspective. He served as ambassador to Bolivia, Brazil, the United States, and the United Nations (UN). Between 1962 and 1963, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Worship during the presidency of José María Guido. Under his initiative, the Institute of Foreign Service of the Nation (ISEN) was established to train the Argentine diplomatic corps. During his tenure as Argentine ambassador to the United States in the early seventies, Muñiz observed the academic work of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) regarding the country's outward projection. That experience motivated him to establish a similar organization in Argentina, aimed at bringing together various local intellectual currents to research international agenda issues (CARI: Historical overview, 2005). Among the founding members are diplomats, military officers, politicians, and businesspeople (Merke and Pauselli, 2015).
He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Worship of the Argentine Republic from 1999 to 2001. Previously, he was a representative to international credit organizations and a national deputy for the Federal Capital (1995-1996). Between 1986 and 1989, he held various positions in the Ministry of Defense. As an academic, he was a professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Buenos Aires, coordinator of the postgraduate Economics program at the University of El Salvador, and a professor at the University of Belgrano. He also lectured in seminars and conferences organized by academic centers and universities in Argentina and abroad, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Sorbonne in Paris. Additionally, he was a member of the Academic Council of the National Defense School and a member of the Academic Council of the Argentine Industry Union.
He is a sociologist and served as president of CARI from 2020 to 2023. He has been Governor, Deputy, and Senator for the Province of Mendoza. From 2003 to 2007, he was the Argentine Ambassador to the United States. Additionally, he served as Secretary of Foreign Relations for the Justicialist Party from 1987 to 1991.
Francisco de Santibañes
[edit]He is the author of the books La Argentina y el mundo (Edicon, 2016), La rebelión de las naciones, La Argentina después de la tormenta (Vértice de Ideas, 2021), and Estrategia argentina (Austral Ediciones, 2023). He has written for various specialized publications such as Survival, Armed Forces and Society, and Horizons. He has given presentations at institutions like Chatham House, the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). He served as a professor at Universidad Austral and was a global fellow at the Wilson Center for International Scholars. He holds a master's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS and has pursued doctoral studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College London.
CARI in the world
[edit]CARI is part of the global network of think tanks called the Council of Councils, an initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) that connects leading think tanks worldwide dedicated to international relations and foreign policy. Additionally, it is a member of the Network of Think Tanks of the Americas (CEPAS), an alliance involving think tanks from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and the United States.
In 2018, CARI chaired the G20’s Think 20 (T20), the affinitive group linked to the G20 that brings together think tanks from around the world, alongside the Public Policy Implementation Center for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC).
Since 2024, the institution has been participating in the Munich Security Conference (MSC), an annual forum that brings together decision-makers and opinion leaders from around the world on international security issues.
Honors and awards
[edit]- Messenger of Peace Award conferred by the then Secretary-General of the United Nations, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, in 1989. //www.perfil.com/noticias/columnistas/el-cari-cumple-40-anos.phtml
- Konex award 1998: Institutions - Community - Companies / Special mention https://www.fundacionkonex.org/b2236-cari-consejo-argentino-para-las-relaciones-internacionales
- The Argentine Council for International Relations was recognized as the leading institution in Latin America and Argentina according to the Global Go To Think Tank Index Survey, a ranking produced by the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
Biography
[edit]- Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (2005). Ana María Ramírez (ed.). CARI: reseña histórica (in Spanish) (Primera ed.). Buenos Aires, Argentina. ISBN 9879979397.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Merke, F. y Pauselli, G. (2015). "In the shadow of the state: Think tanks and foreign policy in Latin America.". International Journal. 70 (4): 613–628. doi:10.1177/0020702015594595. hdl:11336/70459.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ""El CARI, en la cima del ranking de los think tank de la región"" (web) (in Spanish). 30 January 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
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