International Perspectives on the Falklands Conflict

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.

• conflict
• crisis
• death
• Defence
• defence policy
• diplomacy
• intelligence
• nature
• perception
• public opinion
• Rogers
• war
• work

• University of Keele, UK

  Alex Danchev

Policies and ethics