Itaipu's Forgotten History
The 1965 Brazil-Paraguay Border Crisis and the New Geopolitics of the Southern Cone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3473437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob Blanc (0000-0002-9095-9551, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 383-409 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022216x17000049 |
| OpenAlex | W2600132256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article chronicles the fifteen-month border conflict between the military regimes of Brazil and Paraguay that occurred between March of 1965 and June of 1966 - a stand-off that paved the way for the Itaipu project that would become the largest dam in the world. In the context of the 1960s Cold War, both governments saw a large-scale dam on the Paraná River as a means to catalyse industrialisation and strengthen the political legitimacy of their respective authoritarian regimes. Yet the border crisis was not a stand-off between equal powers. Brazil was the much stronger force, and, with the backing of the United States, the Brazilian dictatorship brought Paraguay firmly under its sphere of influence while also marginalising neighbouring Argentina. The border question at Guaíra served as a springboard for Brazil's rising power, and subsequently transformed the geopolitical landscape of the Southern Cone
Archaeology · Authoritarianism · Cold war · Context (archaeology) · Democracy · Development economics · Dictatorship · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Geopolitics · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Indigenous Studies in Latin America · Latin American Cultural Politics · Law
The Itaipu industrial complex
The Negotiation of Itaipu’s Annex C in the Paraguayan Press
Negociação do Anexo C de Itaipu na Imprensa Paraguaia
Las Ambigüedades Autoritarias Y La Masculinidad Estéril De La “Trilogía Del Monoteísmo Del Poder” De Augusto Roa Bastos
In search of the good dam
Infrastructure as a diplomatic tool
The politics of military rule in Brazil, 1964-85
Latin America’s Cold War
State and Opposition in Military Brazil
Brazil and the Quiet Intervention, 1964
Cold Warriors and Coups d'Etat
Petroleum Pitfalls
Modernization as Ideology
The United States, Brazil, and the Cold War, 1945-1960
The Argentine Factor in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Foreign Policy Strategy
Requiem for Revolution
Brazilian Colonization of the Eastern Border Region of Paraguay
Man and Land in Paraguay
Surveillance and State Violence in Stroessner's Paraguay
Enclaves of inequality
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |