Abstract

GONZALEZ RIESLE, Álvaro. Peru-Chile: mutual images. liber. [online]. 2014, vol.20, n.1, pp.13-28. ISSN 1729-4827.

The contents of blogs relating to mutual images between Peru and Chile were analyzed from the approaches about Expansionism - Revanchism of Elizondo, and The images on the mirror of Scott, included the date of the presentation (January 16^th, 2008) by Peru of the demand before the International Court of Justice at the Hague for the solution of the border dispute with Chile until March 30^th, 2011. There have been intense and varied manifestations of mutual hostility that support the validity of Expansionism-Revanchism dynamics in the mutual images between Chile and Peru in the analyzed blogs. At the same time, it was detected content corresponding to integrationist attitudes between the two countries. The results underlie the utility of the approach of The Images on the Mirror as an instrument for the analysis of content of blogs which carriers’ messages of hostility and integration between the two countries. A Psychosocial binational strategy is proposed to: 1) deactivate the Expansionism-Revanchism dynamics that can contribute to produce catastrophic consequences for present and future generations of both countries and (2) promote border integration between Tacna (Peru) and Arica (Chile).

Keywords : International perception; images on the mirror.

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