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Shortly before assuming office in June 1946, Juan Domingo Perón had the outgoing president, General Edelmiro Farrell, sign a highly controversial decree that established the Institute for the Promotion of Foreign Trade (Instituto Argentino para la Promoción del Intercambio). IAPI, as it came to be known as, took control over foreign trade and became one of the major policy tools for the incoming Peronist government.

Shortly before assuming office in June 1946, Juan Domingo Perón had the outgoing president, General Edelmiro Farrell, sign a highly controversial decree that established the Institute for the Promotion of Foreign Trade (Instituto Argentino para la Promoción del Intercambio). IAPI, as it came to be known as, took control over foreign trade and became one of the major policy tools for the incoming Peronist government.

By mid-1940, the Argentine economy seemed to be heading for a major

crisis because many of her traditional export markets had suddenly become

inaccessible. In response, Finance Minister Federico Pinedo and his team

developed a wide range of initiatives. These aimed to overcome the crisis
and
restructure the Argentine economy in order to accommodate it to a changing
and
difficult international environment.This article analyses the nature, successes and failures of these
policies.
It argues that while
Pinedo's initiatives certainly entailed visionary elements
which anticipated major problems
of the Argentine and Latin American development of the post-war era, they
should not be
regarded as some 'golden opportunity' for sound
economic modernisation that was missed only
because Pinedo and his fellow conservatives failed to win political approval
and were later
pushed aside by the rising force of populism.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- In lieu of a preface: Friedrich Katz – an Austrian Obituary / Drekonja-Kornat, Gerhard -- Nelson A. Rockefeller's Office of Inter-American Affairs and the Quest for Pan-American Unity: An Introductory Essay / Cramer, Gisela / Prutsch, Ursula -- Chapter 1. Playing the Cultural Game: The United States and the Nazi Threat to Latin America / Lübken, Uwe -- Chapter 2. "There's Only One America Now": The OIAA Film Programs in the United States / Bender, Pennee -- Chapter 3. Dual-Engined Diplomacy: Walt Disney, Orson Welles, and Pan-American Film Policy during World War II / Benamou, Catherine L. -- Chapter 4. Soft Power: The Art of Diplomacy in US-Mexican Relations, 1940-1946 / Paquette, Catha -- Chapter 5. Fighting for the Soul of the Mexican Press: Axis and Allied Activities during the Second World War / Garza, José Luis Ortiz -- Chapter 6. The Word War at the River Plate: The Office of Inter-American Affairs and the Argentine Airwaves, 1940-46 / Cramer, Gisela -- Chapter 7. Nelson A. Rockefeller's Office of Inter-American Affairs in Brazil / Prutsch, Ursula -- Chapter 8. The OIAA in Central America: The Coordination Committees at Work / Leonard, Thomas M. -- The Editors and Contributors

This paper discusses and criticizes Joseph Nye's account of soft power. First, we set the stage and make some general remarks about the notion of social power. In the main part of this paper we offer a detailed critical discussion of Nye's conception of soft power. We conclude that it is too unclear and confused to be of much analytical use. However, despite this failure, Nye is aiming at explaining an important but also neglected form of social power: the power to influence the will and not just the behavior of other agents. In the last part of this paper we briefly discuss Steven Lukes' alternative view of a "third dimension" of power and end with a sketch of a more promising way to account for this neglected form of power. ; El articulo discute y critica las propuestas de Joseph Nye acerca del poder blando. Primero, abrimos la discusión con unos comentarios generales sobre la noción del poder social. En la parte principal de este artículo, ofrecemos una crítica detallada de la concepción del poder blando propuesta por Nye. Concluimos que esta concepción es demasiado opaca y confusa para tener mucho potencial analítico. Sin embargo, a pesar de tal fracaso conceptual, Nye apunta a aclarar una forma muy importante y desatendida del poder social: el poder de influir sobre la voluntad y no solo el comportamiento de otros actores. En la última sección del articulo discutimos brevemente la concepción alternativa propuesta por Steven Lukes acerca de la "tercera dimensión" del poder, y concluimos con el esbozo de una manera más prometedora de dar cuenta de esta forma desatendida del poder social.