The Negotiations of Services of Health and Education in Argentina: Between Commercial Liberalization and Technical Cooperation

Authors

  • Mercedes Botto Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Argentina)
  • Juliana Peixoto Batista Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Argentina)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v16n17.2008

Keywords:

international negotiation, health and educational services, public-private relationships.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the Argentine experience on the commercial negotiations of education and health services. Firstly, we closely examine the negotiations' dynamics of these sectors in diverse forums for negotiation, such as the multilateral, the hemispheric, and the interregional and regional ones. In addition, we determine the advances on the matter, identifying the existence of commercial agendas as well as issues regarding cooperation. The authors emphasize on the existing tension between these two agendas—cooperation and liberalization—, that although antagonizing in the rhetoric, they are reciprocally connected in the facts. Finally, the debate at the national level is analyzed, differentiating the contents and the construction of the argentine negotiating position, where nongovernmental actors have played a preponderant role. The primary data sources come from semi-structured interviews to the argentine delegations that participated in the negotiations during 1992 and 2005, official and negotiating position documents, and technical and research studies of the negotiation process.

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Author Biographies

Mercedes Botto, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Argentina)

Mercedes Botto es PhD. in Political and Social Sciences (European University Institute, Italia). Al presente, es investigadora adjunta del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) de Argentina y del Programa de Estudios sobre Instituciones Económicas Internacionales, Área de Relaciones Internacionales, de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), con sede académica en Argentina. Asimismo, dicta cursos de grado y maestría en la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) y FLACSO- Argentina. Autora de los libros: ALCA/Cumbres de las Américas, una nueva relación publico-privada, Editorial Biblos, Buenos Aires, 2003 y de Saber y Política. El uso del conocimiento en las negociaciones comerciales internacionales, Editorial Prometeo, Buenos Aires, 2008.

Juliana Peixoto Batista, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Argentina)

Juliana Peixoto Batista es abogada de la Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brasil. Magíster (c) en Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. En la actualidad es investigadora de PIEI-FLACSO/Argentina en temas de integración, derechos humanos y comercio internacional. Es también docente en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y coordinadora de LATN (Latin American Trade Network). Actualmente es becaria de doctorado de la Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica de Argentina. Entre sus publicaciones puede destacarse: “La relación entre Argentina y Brasil: entre la administración de conflictos y las políticas de cooperación” (con Loza, J.). Revista Estudios, N°18, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, Córdoba, Argentina, otoño 2006.

Published

2008-09-15

How to Cite

Botto, M., & Peixoto Batista, J. (2008). The Negotiations of Services of Health and Education in Argentina: Between Commercial Liberalization and Technical Cooperation. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 16, 17. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v16n17.2008

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