This paper analyses how the Cold War influenced the discourses on basic research and on Science and Technology Policies (STPs) of some leaders of the Argentine research community. It explores two key intersections to study the Cold War: the first between politics and policies; the second between the global and the regional/national. The basic assumption is that, just as there was no one Cold War, specific regional and national traits lent specific meanings to basic research. In dialogue with the literature on Latin American history of STPs, on Cold War and on the conceptual history of science, the paper identifies three discursive configurations around S&T: the first refers to the semi-peripheral scientific context; the second is associated with the ‘democracy-totalitarianism’ dichotomy, and the third is linked to the ‘development-dependence’ dichotomy. Finally, the paper also traces some connections between these discourses and the institutional models proposed by different key actors of the research community to implement STPs.

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阿根廷的科学、政治/政策和冷战：从 1950 年代和 60 年代的概念到制度模型

本文分析了冷战如何影响阿根廷研究界一些领导人关于基础研究和科技政策 (STP) 的论述。它探讨了研究冷战的两个关键交叉点：第一个是政治与政策之间的交叉；第二个介于全球和区域/国家之间。基本假设是，正如没有冷战一样，特定的地区和国家特征赋予基础研究特定的意义。在与拉丁美洲 STP 史、冷战和科学概念史文献的对话中，本文确定了围绕 S&T 的三种话语结构：第一种是指半外围科学背景；第二个与“民主-极权主义”二分法有关，第三个与“发展依赖”二分法有关。最后，本文还追溯了这些话语与研究界不同主要参与者为实施 STP 提出的制度模型之间的一些联系。