The chapter examines Chilean diplomatic strategies to manage the recognition of the country’s independence. Through the study of journalistic debate, diplomatic communications and political controversies, the importance of the monarchical alternative during the period 1818–1824 is analysed. This contribution shows the complex articulation of the different spatial scales that the actors of the period considered in their definitions. Indeed, because of Chilean leaders’ position between the Andes and the Pacific, when establishing a strategy to settle the form of government of the new state, they were attentive to how this issue would be resolved in the Río de la Plata and Peru. One of the defining aspects of the Chilean diplomatic position on these issues was to postpone the decision until the neighbouring states had decided on one form of government or the other. Just as the regional policy was important, so was the attempt to insert itself into European diplomacy, for which the Chilean position was thus installed between the revolutionary dilemmas of the Pacific and the Atlantic, showing a position characterised by ambiguity and pragmatism.