Post Arbitration Maps
During the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (1976-1983) and based on concepts of territorial nationalism and geopolitics Argentine geographs sustained the possession of the islands as a vital issue and called on to a march to the south in order to follow some kind of Argentine Manifest Destiny:
- "Classical geopolitics of the late nineteenth century, the crudest biological metaphors of geographic determinism, militarism, the principles of the Doctrina de la Seguridad Nacional and the corporative nationalism can be noted, concealed, subtly or in plain language in the manifests, conferences and statements of the geographers".
The Beagle conflict, the Falklands dispute and the question of the use of the Rio de la Plata Basin became through the works of the geographs topics of popular interests and opinion.
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