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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| 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 |
| 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. |
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