Capítulo 4. Política espacial argentina: rupturas y continuidades (1989-2012)

Blinder, Daniel

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“…As a result, the United States began pressuring to stop the project. And so it was, but not because it renounced national sovereignty, but due to budget restrictions that hyperinflation caused (Blinder, 2022, pp. 331, 408).…”

Section: Otrag and Cóndormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As the case of nuclear development, the state diplomacy of the central powers, intellectuals and dozens of prestigious think tanks of the West have written articles demonizing the acquisition of technology from countries like Argentina and Zaire. They have treated the OTRAG as a case of German colonialism (Kalamiya, 1979), and the Cóndor as a representative case of untrustworthy countries (Blinder, 2022). An example is the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that, explaining the benefits of an international regime, shows Argentina, naming this country on a par with North Korea—which reinforces the image of danger, published: Yet, the MTCR is not without success stories, like that of Argentina’s Cóndor ballistic missile (…).…”

Section: Strategic Technologies and International Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The alleged security issues against such developments were about technological hegemony and avoiding competition. Bringing the discussion to the present, as it was in the East-West confrontation, global powers constrain technology development of semi-peripheral states for monopoly and status quo reasons (Blinder, 2015(Blinder, , 2022. I posit the following questions: How were OTRAG and the Cóndor constructed as threats on the Media?…”

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The Press and the Intelligence Community: The Construction of OTRAG and Cóndor as Global Threats

Blinder

2024

International Studies

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This article studies the way the US government through the Central Intelligence Agency, the Washington Post and the New York Times approached in tandem the development of rockets in Argentina and in two African countries (Zaire and Libya) during the last stretch of the Cold War. A qualitative analysis is carried out from primary government and journalistic sources, looking at how the media acted alongside the government and the intelligence community, providing the same information and a very similar interpretation of the facts, building common sense and a geopolitical imaginary. This is a geopolitical analysis of the construction of imagery of the dangerous identity of the OTRAG and the Cóndor II in the 1970s and 1980s. The conclusions show that both cases were construed as a geopolitical identity on non-core countries that ended in pressures, the projects be terminated, managing to build a sense by which the economic and political interests of the United States were projected hegemonically as universal interests.

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Section: Otrag and Cóndormentioning

confidence: 99%