Defending polar empire: opposition to India's proposal to raise the ‘Antarctic Question’ at the United Nations in 1956
ABSTRACT This paper examines the international response to India's 1956 proposal to raise the ‘Antarctic Question’ at the United Nations. It focuses in particular on the uneasy alliance that developed between the British Commonwealth and Latin America in opposition to the Indian proposal. Altho...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247407006766 2024-09-09T19:08:02+00:00 Defending polar empire: opposition to India's proposal to raise the ‘Antarctic Question’ at the United Nations in 1956 Howkins, Adrian 2008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247407006766 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247407006766 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 44, issue 1, page 35-44 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 journal-article 2008 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247407006766 2024-06-19T04:03:57Z ABSTRACT This paper examines the international response to India's 1956 proposal to raise the ‘Antarctic Question’ at the United Nations. It focuses in particular on the uneasy alliance that developed between the British Commonwealth and Latin America in opposition to the Indian proposal. Although Great Britain, Argentina, and Chile were bitterly disputing the sovereignty of the Antarctic Peninsula region, they shared a common desire to keep the southern continent off the agenda of the United Nations. This ability to work together for common goals, despite their differences, set an important precedent for the Antarctic Treaty that would be signed in 1959. In this way, opposition to the Indian proposal, more than the proposal itself, played an important role in the history of Antarctica in the 1950s. Latin American opposition to the proposal helped to fragment any ‘anti-imperial’ coalition that might have developed in Antarctica. This fragmentation helps us to place the Antarctic Treaty System into the framework of post-colonial studies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica Polar Record Cambridge University Press Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Argentina Indian The Antarctic Polar Record 44 1 35 44 |
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the international response to India's 1956 proposal to raise the ‘Antarctic Question’ at the United Nations. It focuses in particular on the uneasy alliance that developed between the British Commonwealth and Latin America in opposition to the Indian proposal. Although Great Britain, Argentina, and Chile were bitterly disputing the sovereignty of the Antarctic Peninsula region, they shared a common desire to keep the southern continent off the agenda of the United Nations. This ability to work together for common goals, despite their differences, set an important precedent for the Antarctic Treaty that would be signed in 1959. In this way, opposition to the Indian proposal, more than the proposal itself, played an important role in the history of Antarctica in the 1950s. Latin American opposition to the proposal helped to fragment any ‘anti-imperial’ coalition that might have developed in Antarctica. This fragmentation helps us to place the Antarctic Treaty System into the framework of post-colonial studies. |
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Defending polar empire: opposition to India's proposal to raise the ‘Antarctic Question’ at the United Nations in 1956 |
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