Schenoni, LL;
Braniff, S;
Battaglino, J;
(2021)
Was the Falklands crisis a war of distraction? A reinterpretation of the Argentine decline through prospective theory.
America Latina Hoy
, 89
pp. 127-153.
10.14201/alh.27259.
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Abstract
How do we explain the Falklands War? In this article we revisit this episode through a counterfactual analysis using recently declassified documents. These sources cast additional doubt over the diversionary war and miscalculation theses. The evidence suggest that long-term power dynamics and psychological biases affecting the members of the Argentine military Junta better explain the decisions that led to the war.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Was the Falklands crisis a war of distraction? A reinterpretation of the Argentine decline through prospective theory |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14201/alh.27259 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14201/alh.27259 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the cc by-nc-nd license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Malvinas/Falklands; prospect theory; counterfactual analysis; war |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10144092 |
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