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Heerdt tot Eversberg, Robert Paul Victor Louis van (2018)

The Political Race to the South: Chile's Geopolitical Antarctic Strategy Compared to the Strategy of Argentina and Great Britain

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

chapter 1 aims to provide an academic framework through which the Antarctic geopolitical strategies can be understood. Building upon the academic contextualization of the first chapter, chapter 2 explores the conditions of the current geopolitical strategies of Chile, Argentina and Great Britain. Insights into the potential of the region, its legal regime, and its uncertain political future, provide an understanding of the circumstances in which Antarctic strategy has been formed. In Chapter 3, the official geopolitical strategies of Chile and its direct territorial rivals in Antarctica are scrutinized and finally compared using the previously established conditions. By following this structure, I aim to provide the academic scholarship with a framework for future geopolitical research on how these countries have changed their strategies in the run up to 2048 and for future comparisons with the strategies of other claimant, non-claimant, or third party states

Author

Heerdt tot Eversberg, Robert Paul Victor Louis van

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Latin America

Supervisors

Valdivia Rivera, Soledad

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en