The European Economic Community’s sanctions against Argentine during the Falklands war 1982

Ivan Primachenko

Postgraduate student of Modern and Contemporary History of Foreign Countries historical faculty Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University

UDС 94(327)“XX”

DOI: http://doi.org/10.17721/2524-048X.2015.01.77-91

The article reviews the imposing and the renewal of the European Economic Community’s sanctions against Argentine during the Falklands war and leading  role of Great Britain in this process. The analysis of documents, which have became available to researchers just recently, allows making attempt to take a fresh look of this weakly illuminated in historiography aspect of the Falklands issue, offer its periodization and to identify the main factors that led to successful sanctions lobbying by UK.

Keywords

Falklands war, Falkland islands, United Kingdom, Argentina, sanctions, economy.

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