Space activities on the periphery: an aproach from Argentina´s foreign policy

BLINDER, DANIEL

Buenos Aires

Congreso; 4S and Esocite; 2014

4S and Esocite

The present work it is an advance of my doctoral research, which analyzes the relationship between the Condor II missile and the foreign policy during President Menem administration, in which the politic was the destruction of this dual use purposed project, and the transformation of it in a civil space policy, trough the creation of the National Space Agency (CONAE). The causes of the finalization of the Condor and the creation of the CONAE were a conjunction of factors involving versions and explanations about it, given by the main characters. This article constitutes a brief of those explanations, giving some light to such events, and new interpretations. The sources hereby quoted have been protected by pseudonym owing the solicitation of the sources, and because some of them are government employees.