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A second misperception about Argentine-Brazilian relations concerns the supposed turn to improved relations following the settlement of the Itaipú dam conflict in 1979. In this respect, discussion hinges on one main general question: whether or not one single event, no matter how salient, can reverse the political, economic, legal and cultural legacy of many decades. The 1979 Tripartite Agreement that solved the quarrel over the use of water resources between Argentina and Brazil can certainly be regarded as the starting point of a new course of relations between the two countries. But it cannot, on its own, be regarded as decisive, unless one accepts that the dispute over the dam of Itaipú was the one and only significant reason for friction between Argentina and Brazil, so that, once this was eliminated, no further obstacle remained for the development of friendly and cooperative relations. If, on the contrary, one takes the view that the reasons for friction were many and complex, then it may be more appropriate to say that the agreement on the use of the river Paraná, rather than prompting a new course in Argentine-Brazilian relations, was the first manifestation of it, and that a 'long turn approach' has to be preferred to a 'turning point vision'.The argument proceeds in three sections. The first outlines the diplomatic steps that led to the signature of the Tripartite Agreement. In particular, it asks whether deeper reasons (other than the desire to solve the quarrel over the water resources) at the national, regional, and international level, contributed to the ArgentineBrazilian rapprochement. The second describes the significance of the presidential
A second misperception about Argentine-Brazilian relations concerns the supposed turn to improved relations following the settlement of the Itaipú dam conflict in 1979. In this respect, discussion hinges on one main general question: whether or not one single event, no matter how salient, can reverse the political, economic, legal and cultural legacy of many decades. The 1979 Tripartite Agreement that solved the quarrel over the use of water resources between Argentina and Brazil can certainly be regarded as the starting point of a new course of relations between the two countries. But it cannot, on its own, be regarded as decisive, unless one accepts that the dispute over the dam of Itaipú was the one and only significant reason for friction between Argentina and Brazil, so that, once this was eliminated, no further obstacle remained for the development of friendly and cooperative relations. If, on the contrary, one takes the view that the reasons for friction were many and complex, then it may be more appropriate to say that the agreement on the use of the river Paraná, rather than prompting a new course in Argentine-Brazilian relations, was the first manifestation of it, and that a 'long turn approach' has to be preferred to a 'turning point vision'.The argument proceeds in three sections. The first outlines the diplomatic steps that led to the signature of the Tripartite Agreement. In particular, it asks whether deeper reasons (other than the desire to solve the quarrel over the water resources) at the national, regional, and international level, contributed to the ArgentineBrazilian rapprochement. The second describes the significance of the presidential
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