Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Online appendices
- 1 Leaders
- 2 Why and when do leaders fight?
- 3 International conflict and the fate of leaders
- 4 The fate of leaders and incentives to fight
- 5 Case studies: Central America 1840???1918
- 6 Conclusions
- Appendix A Data and measurement
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - The fate of leaders and incentives to fight
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Online appendices
- 1 Leaders
- 2 Why and when do leaders fight?
- 3 International conflict and the fate of leaders
- 4 The fate of leaders and incentives to fight
- 5 Case studies: Central America 1840???1918
- 6 Conclusions
- Appendix A Data and measurement
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduction
On April 2, 1982, the Argentinian armed forces invaded and occupied the Falklands Islands, a small archipelago 250 nautical miles off the coast of Argentina. The islands were, and still are, sovereign territory of Great Britain, one of the many territorial legacies of the British maritime empire. Argentinians call the islands Malvinas and claim them – in the words of their Constitution – as “integral part of the National territory [whose] recovery and the full exercise of sovereignty (…) are a permanent and unrelinquished goal of the Argentine people.” The attack occurred at a time when Argentina had been undergoing a period of economic decline and domestic strife, with mounting inflation, repeated economic contractions and mass unrest (Dabat and Lorenzano, 1984; Pion-Berlin, 1985; Oakes, 2006; Fravel, 2010). Only three days before the invasion, on March 30, fifteen thousand people took to the streets to demonstrate against the ruling military junta under the slogans of “Peace, Bread, and Work”, and “The Military Dictatorship Is Near Its End” (Dabat and Lorenzano, 1984, 75; Fravel, 2010, 321).
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- Leaders and International Conflict , pp. 91 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011