Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-82 Foreign Policy, Corporations and Social Movements /

• Main Author: Livingstone, Grace (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
• Subjects: Latin America-History.; Great Britain-History.; World politics.; Social history.; International relations.; Latin American History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Political History.; Social History.; Foreign Policy.

This book explores the links between the British government and the dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-82, using newly-opened British archives. It gives the most complete picture to date of British arms sales, military visits and diplomatic links with the Argentine and Chilean military regim...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Making Friends with the Junta
• 2. Chile: 1973 to 1982
• 3. Welcoming Pinochet's Coup (1973 to 1974)
• 4. Ethical Foreign Policy? Labour versus the Foreign Office (1974 to 1979)
• 5. Tea with a Dictator: Mrs Thatcher and the General (1979 to 1982)
• 6. Chile: Conclusion
• 7. Argentina: From 1976 until the Invasion of the Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982
• 8. Business as Usual: Arming the Junta (1976 to 1979)
• 9. Oil, the Islands and the Falklands Lobby (1976 to 1979)
• 10. Befriending 'Common or Garden' Dictators (1979 to 2 April 1982)
• 11. Antarctica, Oil and Leaseback: Britain's Strategic Interests in the Falklands (1979 2 April 1982)
• 12. Conclusion.