ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a historical review of Argentina’s various configurations of the political right. Although this overview doesn’t claim to be an exhaustive account of every ideological variant, it does, however, offer a typology which delineates three models of the Argentine political right. This typology is intended to explore how each of these categories understands Argentina in relation to its neighbours and within projects of a regional nature. To this end, the chapter characterises each of the three types identified, highlighting their proposals and ideologies, as well as their political implementation, to construct a historical line of argument that identifies the features which configure the three rights: a conservative, Hispanist one; a more liberal, pro-United States (US) one; and a neo-patriotic, anti-system one. Moreover, the chapter contrasts the similarities and differences between these three Argentine rights in their understanding of regionalism and the preferred regionalism model for managing Argentina’s insertion.
