Diplomazia e scienza: la politica antartica del Regno Unito e l’Anno geofisico internazionale, 1955-1959
Journal title MEMORIA E RICERCA
Author/s Mauro Elli
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2008/29 Language Italian
Pages 23 P. 145-167 File size 157 KB
DOI 10.3280/MER2008-029009
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Diplomacy and Science: United Kingdom Anctartical policy and the International Geophysical Year, 1955-1959 - This article is concerned with the relations between diplomacy and science in British Antarctic policy in the run-up and during the International Geophysical Year. Using a variety of unpublished documents, it shows how the comprehensively traditional approach of UK diplomacy mainly concerned with territorial disputes with Argentina and Chile in Antarctica, and prestige was an advantage, in that it allowed Britain to play an original, positive role not hamstrung by the zero-sum view of the cold war prevailing in Washington. Caught between financial difficulties and political imperatives, British diplomacy wished to capitalize on the success of international scientific cooperation in order to both solving the dispute with the South American countries and involving positively the USSR. The eventual result was the Antarctic Treaty, a paradigmatic example of interaction between diplomacy and science, and one of the few non-confrontational outcomes of the early cold war.
Mauro Elli, Diplomazia e scienza: la politica antartica del Regno Unito e l’Anno geofisico internazionale, 1955-1959 in "MEMORIA E RICERCA " 29/2008, pp 145-167, DOI: 10.3280/MER2008-029009