Between the Cold War and the Global South: Argentina and Third World Solidarity in the Falklands/Malvinas Crisis

This article looks at Argentine attempts to mobilize the Third World support by framing the Falklands/Malvinas War as a North-South conflict. Despite fundamental ideological divisions, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Non-Aligned Movement offered support to Argentina, while the NATO...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Krepp, Stella Paresa
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2017
Country:Brasil
Institution:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repository:Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro)
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/65362
Online Access:https://periodicos.fgv.br/reh/article/view/65362
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Malvinas
Global South Atlantic
Third World
Argentina.
Atlántico Sur Global
Tercer Mundo
Atlântico Sul Global
Terceiro Mundo
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Summary:This article looks at Argentine attempts to mobilize the Third World support by framing the Falklands/Malvinas War as a North-South conflict. Despite fundamental ideological divisions, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Non-Aligned Movement offered support to Argentina, while the NATO powers – the European Economic Community (EEC) and the United States − backed Great Britain. The Falklands/Malvinas was thus a conflict where nationalist agendas linked up with global narratives of decolonization and the Global South.