Between integration and threatening proximity: the Geopolítica magazine’s editorial position on the Beagle conflict between Argentina and Chile (1975-1983)

Authors

  • Cristian Andrés Di Renzo INHUS-CONICET/UNMDP. GEHiGue

Keywords:

Border conflict, Latin American integration, Threatening neighbourhood, Argentina and Chile, Beagle

Abstract

Throughout the 20th century, bilateral crises between Argentina and Chile led to the adoption of strategies that ranged between confrontation and cooperation. Civilian and military intellectuals devoted to the study of ongoing border conflicts or the exploitation of natural resources in border areas were not oblivious to this situation and developed different theoretical approaches and pragmatic proposals in their writings in order to devise solutions to these problems. This paper focuses on the analysis of the intellectual works of civilian and military authors published in the Geopolítica magazine between 1975-1983. Through a methodological approach combining quantitative and qualitative source analysis, the different authors published in this magazine as well as their works will be examined, taking the border conflict over the Beagle Channel between Argentina and Chile as a case study. It is alleged that, except for the most critical moments, Geopolítica advocates for an integrationist alternative as a feasible solution to the South American issues. However, this magazine also gave room to other positions that moved away from the intended profile, clearly positioned in the plane of confrontation. Such would be the case of the intellectuals who aligned themselves with the nationalist-territorialist-irredentist current which promoted the idea of "threatening proximity" in the course of the Beagle conflict. Their intellectual works in this period were aimed at developing or reinforcing a series of geopolitical conceptions intended, on the one hand, to warn about the behavior of Argentina's neighboring countries in foreign policy matters and, on the other hand, to have an impact on the decision-making process. Such works appeared both in printed format and specialized journals. For this reason, the time frame included in this paper covers the magazine’s early years, passing through the most critical period in their bilateral relations up to the "democratic opening" process in Argentina.

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  • Cristian Andrés Di Renzo, INHUS-CONICET/UNMDP. GEHiGue

    Cristian Di Renzo es investigador en la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

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Published

2023-06-27

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Vol. 12 No. 24 (2023): Guerra y derecho en América Latina: entre las disposiciones y las prácticas; entre la excepción y la norma (siglo XIX)

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Between integration and threatening proximity: the Geopolítica magazine’s editorial position on the Beagle conflict between Argentina and Chile (1975-1983). (2023). Revista Universitaria De Historia Militar, 12(24), 268-287. https://mail.ruhm.es/index.php/RUHM/article/view/844

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