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Argentina's post-crisis political economy was viewed as part of the emergence of a post-neoliberal governance and the rise of New Left governments in Latin America in the past decade that marked a renewal of state activism in economy and poverty reduction. Using the concept of new developmentalism' described by Bresser-Pereira, this article offers a more nuanced approach to post-neoliberalism in Argentina. It argues that the post-neoliberal project or neo-developmentalism in Argentina does not mark a distinct departure from neoliberalism. Instead, it embodies a hybrid and complex process that maintains the core elements of economic liberalism. This article aims to contribute to the debates on post-neoliberalism and the New Left in Latin America.

This article explores the nature of the political economy of Argentina's trade policies towards Mercado Cormin del Sur (Mercosur - the Southern Common Market) after the financial crisis of 2001/2002 and analyses to what extent they constitute a robust potential for development. In the past decade, scholars of Latin America have argued that the reactivation of national and regional developmental goals in this region have resulted in the development of a new political, economic and social agenda for regional integration because open regionalism had failed to respond to the challenges of stable growth. Although the existing literature on regionalism has explored the internal and political dynamics of the recent efforts to cooperate in the region, there has not yet been adequate attention given to the link between regionalist projects and processes of globalisation. By using the analytical tools of the literature on new regionalism, this article argues that there is a need to go beyond stark distinctions between domestic and external dynamics of regionalist projects. The main argument of this article suggests that Argentina's developmental efforts were restricted by divergent understandings of Mercosur and development priorities; and asymmetries of production that prevailed among the bloc's members in the context of a more globalised and liberalised world economy.