The Antarctic regime formation: from the VI International Geographic Congress, to the Antarctic Treaty signature (1895-1959)

• Grant number: 15/05909-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: July 01, 2015
• End date: April 02, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Rafael Antonio Duarte Villa
• Grantee: Ignacio Javier Cardone
• Host Institution: Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/11227-7 - British science and the forge of Antarctic politics: the links between science and the British Antarctic politics, 1895 and 1961, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This research project analyses the issue of the formation of the Antarctic international regime known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), covering from the VI International Geography Congress in London, 1895, to the signature of the Antarctic Treaty (AT) in Washington, 1959.Based on the lack of systematized and theoretical based studies of International Relations related to Antarctica of that period, this project propose as a research hypothesis that the generation of the agreement included the combination of strategic power dimensions whit economic interests and ideological-cognitive issues, that make the agreement possible. With a qualitative methodology of process tracing, justification for that research could be found in two orders of needs. First, on the lack of in-deep theoretical analyses and the preeminence of realists or liberal explanation on the TA agreement, that marks the necessity of a better understanding of that process. And secondly, the need to comprehend the actual conditions that lead to the conformation of a highly efficient regime, as a way to contribute to current or future institutional designs. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CARDONE, Ignacio Javier. A continent for peace and science: Antarctic science and international politics from the 6th International Geographical Congress to the Antarctic Treaty (1895-1959). 2019. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI) São Paulo.