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This work is part of an institutionalized investigation (Us and the Others in the conformation of National identity in La Revista de Derecho, Historia y Letras), which for several years (2000-2014) we have been carrying out with the research team in the freamwork of the Centro de Estudios Avanzados of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, which has received several financial benefits from the Secretary of Science and Technology of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and is framed within the Teaching and Research incentives program. What we are presenting here is an advance of a development topic of this investigation. The team is made up of researches from different disciplines, therefore it is an interdisciplinary team (History, Langueages, Law and International Relations). Zeballos’s thought belongs to the generation of ’80. It can be consider as one of the most prestigious intellectuals of the time. We will analyze his thought integrated in La Revista de Derecho, Historia y Letras, with the aim of observing the inflluence it had on the Argentine elites of its time, how his position was reflected especially in matters of Argentinian foreing policy and establish their ideological position regarding the problem of Argetine-North American relations. Zeballos builds national identity with all its components (imaginary, myths, etc) in and out of “Argentina”: identifying, internally, the policies developed in different areas by the government and, outward, the assumed position regarding international politics, specifically, with foreign policy with Chile and Brazil and then with the position assumed with respect to the North American "interference" in the region. , a different "Other" arises and the "We" has expanded itself with the incorporation of small Latin American countries in the game of Latin American balance of power. Beginning in 1904, Zeballos observed the transformations that "our brother from the north" is carrying out with Theodore Roosevelt and his "Big Stick".