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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483842303321

Autore

Heiberg Morten

Titolo

Spain and the Wider World since 2000 : Foreign Policy and International Diplomacy during the Zapatero Era / / by Morten Heiberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-27343-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 314 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World

Disciplina

940.903

Soggetti

Europe—History—1492-

World history

World politics

Diplomacy

History of Modern Europe

World History, Global and Transnational History

Political History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2: TERROR IN MADRID -- CHAPTER 3: BREAKING THE SHACKLES -- CHAPTER 4: A EUROPEAN HOUSE OF CARDS -- CHAPTER 5: FIDEL AND RAÚL -- CHAPTER 6: THE OTHER COMANDANTE -- CHAPTER 7: STUPID LITTLE ISLAND -- CHAPTER 8: ALLIANCE OR CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS? -- CHAPTER NINE: CAPITALISM HAS DIED -- CONCLUSIONS -- A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ENDNOTE -- SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.-.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers the first comprehensive study of Spanish foreign policy since 2000. Based on privileged access to some of Spain’s most important foreign policy actors – including Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos – the book offers an insider account of how Spanish foreign policy was shaped within the context of international diplomacy. It offers crucial new insights into the foreign policy of the PSOE governments (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, 2004 to 2011). The volume considers the changes on the international stage since the fall of the Berlin Wall in



1989, showing how regional conflicts and tensions affected the policy agendas of the West. To increase security and prosperity at home, the 2004 Spanish socialist government reasoned that they could no longer rely exclusively on unilateral measures, old Cold War alliances or a ‘Spain-first’ approach. Against the backdrop of this changing world, the book explores the concept of ‘effective multilateralism’ put forward by the PSOE, in which Spain abandoned its hitherto unconditional support for the US and instead engaged in a series of multilateral collaborations with regions around the world. Above all, this study seeks to provide a new international history of contemporary Spain, demonstrating how domestic changes intersected with global transformations, and put forward the argument that diplomacy works. .