Impact of Spain’s democratisation on its multilateral relations

• Authors: Małgorzata Mizerska-Wrotkowska

Abstracts

EN

The objective of this article is to analyse the impact of the Spanish democratic transformation on its multilateral relations. It analyses the strategies of Spanish governments in the transformation era and the process of accession to NATO, the Council of Europe and the European Communities. Source analysis and criticism methods (applied mostly to Spanish- -language texts), as well as comparative analysis were employed for the needs of this article. Based on her research, the author concludes that changes to Spanish foreign policy were evolutionary in nature. Therefore, it took Spain several years to regain the full confidence of its partners. Before any breakthrough changes could occur in the multilateral dimension, Spain needed to normalise its bilateral relations. The democratic elections conducted on the 15th of June 1977 in Spain was the breakthrough without which no accession to any important international organisation could ever happen. As the event clinched the state’s democratisation, it paved the way for Spain to join soon the Council of Europe. The accession process for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was more complex. The Spanish political scene was divided in that matter. Spain’s accession to the European Communities was the longest process. It was subject not only to the state’s democratisation progress but also to economic issues.

Keywords

EN

Spain; democratisation; transformation; foreign policy; multilateral relations; Council of Europe; NATO; European Union

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Reality of Politics
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 45-60

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Mizerska-Wrotkowska

• University of Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/rop201703

Biblioteka Nauki

2031494