Rationalities of war and peace. Argentina-Chile, 1977-1984

Authors

  • Freddy Timmermann Profesor Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez y Universidad Andrés Bello

Abstract

The present work analyzes the contextual elements that determined the diverse rationalities of the civil and military elites involved in the conflict of the Beagle. At the same time, the form in which these authoritarian regimes operated when they militarily occupied their respective countries; that is to say, when it sustained their political systems and their capacities of conflict negotiation, constituting the violence in the device of basic power, though nonexclusive. Also, it analyzes the fundamental role the Catholic Church exerted when the manipulation of this virtual war was journeyed or was constituted in war

Keywords:

Militarism, Mediation, Feudal-military State, Civic- military Elites, Doctrine of National Security