Impact of South-South Cooperation Policies on the Orientation of University Internationalization in Argentina 2007-2015

At the beginning of the XXI century, the confluence of two different, but directly linked, phenomena is observed, in the orientation of internationalization policies in Argentine universities. On the one hand, the progress of the internationalization process of Higher Education in Latin America and, on the other, the shift in regional policy based on prioritizing South-South cooperation ties (SSC). The article aims to describe and analyze how css policies in science, technology and university affect internationalization. I focus on the css policies promoted by the National State in the period 2007-2015 through: the Secretariat for University Policies of the Ministry of Education; the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation; and the Argentine Fund for South-South and Triangular Cooperation (foar), dependent on the Directorate of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship. In this context I discuss the agency-structure relationship in relation to the university internationalization process.