Weapons, Alliances and Funds for War. Peruvian Diplomacy During the Pacific War (1879)

One of the disciplines least examined by Peruvian historiography on the Pacific War (1879-1883) is diplomatic history. In this sense, this article proposes to know the coordination work that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs carried out with the Peruvian diplomatic missions in America and Europe when the war began in 1879 and how diplomacy became a war front. The documentation of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs allows us to know the objectives of the foreign policy developed by the Peruvian Foreign Ministry and shows the importance of information processing and analysis of the international scene.