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International Perspectives on the Falklands Conflict

A Matter of Life and Death

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Alex Danchev

    1. University of Keele, UK

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: A Matter of Life and Death

    • Alex Danchev
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Policy Relevance of the Falklands/Malvinas Past

    • Peter Beck
    Pages 12-46

  4. The Malvinas as a Factor in Argentine Politics

    • Peter Calvert
    Pages 47-66

  5. The Chilean Falklands Factor

    • Felipe Sanfuentes
    Pages 67-84

  6. The Role of the Falkland Lobby, 1968–1990

    • Clive Ellerby
    Pages 85-108

  7. International and Inter-Agency Misperceptions in the Conflict

    • Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse
    Pages 109-126

  8. The Franks Report: a Chronicle of Unripe Time

    • Alex Danchev
    Pages 127-152

  9. Intelligence Warning of the Occupation of the Falklands: Some Organisational Issues

    • Michael Herman
    Pages 153-163

  10. The Falklands War and the Concept of Escalation

    • Lawrence Freedman
    Pages 164-190

  11. The Falklands War and British Defence Policy

    • Paul Rogers
    Pages 191-202

  12. Anglo-American Relations and the Falklands Conflict

    • Christoph Bluth
    Pages 203-223

  13. The Nature of Anglo-Argentine Diplomacy, 1980–1990

    • Guillermo Makin
    Pages 224-237

  14. Public Attitudes and the Future of the Islands

    • Felipe Noguera, Peter Willetts
    Pages 238-267

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 268-277
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This is a collection of important new work on the Falklands Conflict by the leading authorities in the field, British and Argentine. The themes of the volume are defence and diplomacy, and the problematic relationship between them. The authors investigate aspects of the conflict from the relevance of Falklands/Malvinas past, through the diplomatic and military crisis of 1982, to shifts in public opinion in both countries. Contributors include Peter Beck, Peter Calvert, Lawrence Freedman, Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse, Guillermo Makin and Paul Rogers.

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  • University of Keele, UK

    Alex Danchev

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