Malvinas and Gibraltar as National Causes

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the validity of the Malvinas Question and the Gibraltar Question as national causes. In this regard, the presence of the issue in the society of the States involved will be analyzed, considering the manifestations of the community and its associations and the measurements of public opinion in those countries.

The construction of the question will be analyzed in the form of a cause associated with the consolidation of the idea of nation based on the lost territorial integrity, both in Argentina and in Spain, as Sovereignty Claiming States (ERS), pointing out how this characterization is linked with the permanence of the issue in the countries, which will be addressed based on public opinion but incorporating the presence and appreciation by the community in broad terms, including civil society associations as articulators of that assessment.