ABSTRACT
U.S.–Argentine relations experienced significant changes in the second half of 2001. The main causes of this trend can be found in Argentina, although George W. Bush’s government made important contributions to this departure from the path that had been followed during the 1990s. The political and financial crisis in Argentina, which began in December 2001, not only led to the fall of Fernando de la Rúa’s government (1999-2001), but it also ended the foreign policy framework, developed and implemented during the years of Carlos Menem’s presidency (1989-1999) that had promoted a strategy of bandwagoning with Washington.1
