This significant contribution to the literature of international
politics and diplomacy assesses the three failed peacemaking
attempts during the Falklands crisis of 1982. Douglas Kinney
examines the reasons for the failures in negotiations and offers
several distinct but interrelated 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.
Unchecked, they promise more brushfire wars like the approximately
200 the world has experienced in the peace prevailing since World
War II.
"National Interest/National Honor" delineates the major stages
in the diplomacy of the Falklands crisis, including the bilateral
negotiations and General Assembly resolutions, third-party and
Security Council preventative diplomacy, a settlement by Peru, and
extended negotiations under the auspices of the Secretary General
of the U.N. Kinney assesses British and Argentine diplomacy in
terms of each country's national interest and honor. 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. This book sets the Falklands War in the context of
the many conflicts since World War II, and warns that such wars
will likely increase as states seem to feel less and less reticence
in resorting to violence in disputes over territory.
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