Research Guides: Alternative Dispute Resolution Research: Falkland/Malvinas Islands Dispute

Introduction: Researching the Falkland/Malvinas Islands Dispute

In 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a group of islands held by the U.K. off the Argentinian coast. This resulted in a two-month conflict between these nations, to which U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig attempted to negotiate a peace agreement.

This section of the guide provides information about research resources for the Falkland Islands (known in Argentina as Malvinas) dispute, including reputable internet materials, books, and scholarly articles.

Falkland/Malvinas Islands Dispute: Internet Resources

Falkland/Malvinas Islands Dispute: Books

The Disputed Islands: The Falkland Crisis by Great Britain Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Call Number: Harvard Widener Library F3031 .D57 1982
Falklands: The Secret Plot by Cardoso, Kirschbaum and Van der Kooy; translated by Bernard Ethell
Call Number: Harvard Widener Library F3031.5 .C3713 1987x
The Falklands War: Background, Conflict, Aftermath - an Annotated Bibliography by Andrew Orgill
Call Number: Harvard Widener Library F3031.5.Z99 O74 1993x
The Genesis of the Falklands (Malvinas) Conflict: Argentina, Britain, and the Failed Negotiations of the 1960s by Martín Abel González, Nigel Ashton
Call Number: Law School Library KZ4157 .G69 2013
The Official History of the Falklands Campaign by Lawrence Freedman
Call Number: Harvard Depository F3031.5 .F744 2007
Perspectives on Negotiation: Four Case Studies and Interpretations by Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State
Call Number: Science and International Affairs Library D843 .P4759 1986
More information about the Science and International Affairs Library.
Resolving Development Disputes Through Negotiations by Timothy J. Sullivan
Call Number: Harvard Depository HD1390 .S94 1984
This book includes an extensive discussion of the mediation process used during the Falkland Islands dispute.
Stopping Wars and Making Peace: Studies in International Intervention by Kristen Eichensehr and W. Michael Reisman (editors)
Call Number: Law School Library KZ6374 .S77 2009
Includes this chapter: "War-Stopping Techniques in the Falklands."

Falkland/Malvinas Islands Dispute: Articles

Argentina's Rights to the Falklands/Malvinas Islands (Texas International Law Journal, v. 18 (1983))
Conflict Resolution and the Falkland Islands Invasion (Interfaces, v. 13, 1983)
Effectiveness of the Biased Mediator (Negotiation Journal, v.1 (2007))
Includes a discussion of mediator bias during the Falklands conflict.
The Falkland (Malvinas) Islands: An International Law Analysis of the Dispute Between Argentina and Great Britain (Military Law Review, v. 107 (1985))
Institutions and Cooperation: Sanctions During the Falkland Islands Conflict (International Security, v. 16 (1982))
The Special Relationship: Then and Now (Foreign Affairs, v. 85, 2006)
Article discussing the role of the U.S. in the Falklands dispute by British Falklands historian Lawrence Freedman.
Sovereignty and the Falklands Crisis (International Affairs, v. 59 (1983))
The Sovereignty Dispute over the Falkland Islands (Virginia Journal of International Law, 1982)
This article discusses the historical bases of the Falkland Islands conflict and the diplomatic and military events that led to the resolution of the conflict.
Strategic Choice in Negotiation (American Behavioral Scientist, v. 27 (1983))
Discusses how the "flexible firmness" alternative to explicit problems solving was employed by the British during the Falkland Islands dispute.