Year: 1987
Type: article
Abstract: The reason this essay has been delayed for so long is not merely the author's indolence.Although the first flood of books and articles appeared not long after the shooting stopped, an Argentine defeat on the field of battle suggested the eventual publication of memoirs by Argentine participants or semiofficial leaks to professional journalists that would chronicle the Argentine side of the story in fairly convincing detail.This expectation has not been met, although it is rumored in Buenos Aires that both Nicanor Costa Mendez, the Foreign Minister during the war, and Eduardo Roca, Argentine Ambassador to the United Nations during the conflict, are about to publish books dealing with their roles in the episode.Rather than wait any longer, I will promise to file an update on those items if and when they appear in print.More curious is the fact that no scholar in the United States or Europe has yet published a comprehensive account of the episode.We shall have to make do with what we have-and I cannot claim to have read it all, merely everything that was available.To deal coherently with such a vast literature and with such a complex subject, I have found it useful to organize the material sequentially according to components or explanatory elements: the historical background and legal antecedents to the conflict; the denouement of the crisis, with particular attention to the differing perceptions of the principal participants and the context in which decisions were made in 123
Source: Latin American Research Review
Author: Joseph S. Tulchin
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4312374846