National Interest/National Honor: The Diplomacy of the Falklands Crisis

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Assesses the three failed peacemaking attempts during the Falklands crisis of 1982. The author examines the reasons for the failures in negotiations and offers several case studies in negotiating and third party mediation of international conflict. Using the Falklands crisis as an example, he examines the unique political context of the territorial crisis; what the Third World insists is the ongoing process of "decolonization," the global spread of sophisticated military technologies and the world arms bazaar. These changes in turn have led to new norms and new means of establishing territory and sovereignty, according to Kinney. He offers a study of British representational democracy, politics, defense, world view, Argentine history and politics as well as the lack of political and diplomatic imagination of both parties at the source of the conflict.

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DOUGLAS KINNEY is a foreign affairs specialist with interests in risk assessment and negotiation. Mr. Kinney was the recipient of a a Una Chapman Cox Fellowship, served as an Associate of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, and has taught negotiation at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service.