Democratic Spain: Reshaping External Relations in a Changing World / Edition 1

by Richard Gillespie, Fernando Rodrigo, Jonathan Story

Overview

Since the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of the European Union and Nato have been keys to Spain's new prominence, although the country has also tried to build on its traditional "special relationships" with Latin America and the Arab world. This is the first thorough study of democratic Spain's re-emergence on the international scene.
By focusing on the relationship between external relations and domestic policy the book makes an important contribution to the literature on democratisation, as well as showing how Spanish foreign policy evolved between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s.
While the book focuses on democratic Spain, its revisionist view of democratic transitions is of more general relevance. Democratization is seen as an integral process involving related, though not simultaneous changes in domestic policy and external relations. Only with the transformation of her external relations did Spain's new democracy finally become consolidated.
This book will be required reading for students of Spanish politics and will also be useful to those interested in the process of democratization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415113250
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/14/1995
Series:	Routledge Research in European Public Policy
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Richard Gillespie, Fernando Rodrigo, Jonathan Story

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables, List of contributors, Series editor’s preface, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, 1 Introduction: Definitions and perspectives, 2 Spain’s external relations 1898–1975, 3 Spain’s external relations redefined: 1975–89, 4 Western alignment: Spain’s security policy, 5 Spain in the world economy, 6 Spain in the European Community, 7 European political cooperation: The upgrading of Spanish foreign policy, 8 The autonomous communities and external relations, 9 Spain and Latin America, 10 Spain and the Maghreb: Towards a regional policy?, 11 Spain in the post-cold war world, 12 Perspectives on the reshaping of external relations, Appendix: Decision-making in Spanish external affairs, Bibliography, Index