Los diplomáticos y el comercio de exportación argentino durante la Primera Guerra Mundial

Abstract

– In this paper, we analyze the role of the Argentine diplomats in promoting exports during First World War in order to contrast it with their behavior along the previous period. We start with a summary of Argentine export performance, both in products and destinations. Then, we divide the study over diplomacy in three aspects: communication, action and prediction. The empirical evidence on which we based our study is particularly the unpublished documentation of Diplomatic and Consular Series, found in Argentine Foreign Affairs Ministry Archive. “La acción, un tanto restringida de las funciones de los Consulados, debería ampliarse, haciéndose de ellos el vehículo natural para todo aquello que tenga una faz comercial”.1