Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973–82

Grace Livingstone is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, UK, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She is also a journalist and has reported for the BBC World Service, the Guardian, the Observer and the Independent. She is the author of Inside Colombia: Drugs, Democracy and War and America’s Backyard: the United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror.

• 1. Introduction: Making Friends with the Junta.- 2. Chile: 1973 to 1982.- 3. Welcoming Pinochet’s Coup (1973 to 1974).- 4. Ethical Foreign Policy?  Labour versus the Foreign Office (1974 to 1979).- 5. Tea with a Dictator: Mrs Thatcher and the General (1979 to 1982).- 6. Chile: Conclusion.-  7. Argentina: From 1976 until the Invasion of the Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982.- 8. Business as Usual: Arming the Junta (1976 to 1979).- 9.  Oil, the Islands and the Falklands Lobby (1976 to 1979).- 10.  Befriending ‘Common or Garden’ Dictators (1979 to 2 April 1982).- 11. Antarctica, Oil and Leaseback: Britain’s Strategic Interests in the Falklands (1979 2 April 1982).- 12. Conclusion.

“Grace Livingstone's book should be read by everyone who takes an interest in foreign policy and international affairs. It is a gem which demonstrates not only the need for changes in the way that foreign policy is formulated but also for a more open and democratic system of recruiting Foreign Office and diplomatic personnel ...” (Stan Newens, Spokesman, Issue 141, 2019) “The work is, I believe, unique in undertaking an in-depth examination of the role of the state during this important period for international relations, because no-one to date has undertaken such a holistic and intelligently perceptive approach to examining government policy, bringing in issues of class, economics, the role played by solidarity pressure groups and trade unions and structural factors. … There is so much of value in this book. … A vital contribution to our historical understanding of how the state works.” (Morning Star, morningstaronline.co.uk, October, 2018)