Books by Carlos Sanz
This book explores the reciprocal relationships between transitions and democratization processes... more This book explores the reciprocal relationships between transitions and democratization processes in Spain and the countries of Latin America, with a cross-cutting and transnational perspective on the mechanisms that Ibero-American societies have mobilized to overcome dictatorships and armed conflicts.
To achieve this, the authors trace a set of initiatives developed in recent decades around policies of truth, justice, reparations, memory, guarantees of non-repetition, and a gender perspective, specifically considering what Latin America can contribute to the Spanish and, by extension, European democratic discourse.
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La Guerra Fria: una historia inacabada, 2022
The Cold War marked international relations for more than four decades of global rivalry between ... more The Cold War marked international relations for more than four decades of global rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. Under the shadow of nuclear deterrence, the two superpowers and their blocs of allied and related countries waged a permanent confrontation at the world level, substituting direct military confrontation for conventional wars in the Third World. Systemic conflict as well as a radical time in which our present has its roots, the Cold War conditioned the life of humanity in multiple ways and its traces and effects continue to be visible today.
Far from being a distant past, today we see the Cold War as an unfinished story, whose shadows are projected on our present. After the promises of globalization and a new harmonious and cooperative world order inspired by the West, today geopolitics and the dynamics of rivalry and conflict are once again governing relations between the great powers. The aggressive rhetoric, the narrative of the spheres of influence, the proxy wars on the margins of the system, the formation of ideological fronts, the risk of a direct military confrontation between the central actors and the nuclear threat have emerged again with force, fueling the ghosts of a time that seemed definitively buried.
This book deciphers the complexity of the Cold War, providing not only the reconstruction of historical events, but also the keys to its interpretation. On the one hand, it brings the reader closer to the most up-to-date state of research, combining classic contributions with the most recent research, based on recently declassified archival sources. On the other hand, it integrates the various schools and interpretive approaches to the Cold War. The result is a work that, beyond the East-West political and military conflict, pays attention to the social, economic and cultural aspects and to the multiplicity of actors and scenarios at play, from a global perspective. A compact and methodical text that allows the reader to know and understand the Cold War, both as a historical time, and from the perspective of the past and current international system.
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La Gran Guerra del 14 supuso un aldabonazo para la conciencia de los contemporáneos y ocasionó pr... more La Gran Guerra del 14 supuso un aldabonazo para la conciencia de los contemporáneos y ocasionó profundas alteraciones en todos los órdenes de la vida. España permaneció neutral oficialmente durante los cuatro años del conflicto, pero no estuvo aislada ni se mantuvo al margen de la guerra y de sus consecuencias. Todo lo contrario: el conflicto afectó de múltiples formas la vida de los españoles y trastornó para siempre las prácticas políticas y culturales del país. Esta obra ofrece una renovadora visión sobre el impacto de la Primera Guerra Mundial en España, un país donde la neutralidad oficial se vio contrastada con una fuerte beligerancia social y que estuvo expuesta a los mismos vientos del cambio que acabaron barriendo las estructuras del pasado en todo el mundo. De la política a la literatura, pasando por los nacionalismos, los debates intelectuales, las consecuencias para la sociedad, las relaciones internacionales o los aspectos militares, se analizan en este volumen las múltiples facetas del conflicto en su relación con la compleja situación de la España del momento. Todo ello sin olvidar el papel de Alfonso XIII, dado el protagonismo que asumió el monarca y su particular interés e implicación en la política exterior del país.
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Lorenzo Delgado y Santiago M. López (eds.), Madrid, Sílex, 2019
El Plan de Estabilización de 1959 supuso la adaptación del régimen franquista a los nuevos viento... more El Plan de Estabilización de 1959 supuso la adaptación del régimen franquista a los nuevos vientos que soplaban desde el exterior: apertura comercial, entrada de inversiones de empresas multinacionales e importación de tecnología. La ciencia y la investigación tuvieron una participación subsidiaria en aquella transformación. Ni los políticos ni los empresarios consideraron que valiese la pena convertir a España en una economía innovadora y de base tecnológica. La indiferencia hacia el carácter estratégico de la I+D se prolongó hasta la promulgación en 1986 de la Ley de la Ciencia. Sin embargo, aquella medida modernizadora no fue suficiente y tanto la economía como la ciencia españolas permanecen a las puertas del club de países innovadores. Esta obra analiza algunas de las claves de ese proceso. La política científica comenzó su propia transición antes de que el cambio político llegase al país, pero hoy en día todavía persisten lastres que dificultan el necesario salto hacia adelante.
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Volosyuk, Olga (ed.), España y Rusia: diplomacia y diálogo cultural. Tres siglos de relaciones / Испания и Россия: дипломатия и культурный диалог. Три столетия отношений, Moscú/Madrid, Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenia/AECID, 2018
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La configuración de la sociedad internacional actual y la noción de relaciones internacionales re... more La configuración de la sociedad internacional actual y la noción de relaciones internacionales retratan hoy un universo social más amplio y complejo que el que vio nacer a esta disciplina histórica. Un universo que no se puede reducir al haz de "relaciones interestatales", el núcleo de lo que constituían tradicionalmente las relaciones internacionales; sino un nuevo marco en el que se desenvuelven a la vez las "relaciones internacionales" en sentido estricto, referidas a las relaciones entre entidades soberanas e independientes, y las "relaciones transnacionales" que se establecen a través de las fronteras por parte de individuos, colectivos y organizaciones no explícitamente vinculadas a una entidad política estatal.
A la hora de articular esta "Historia de las relaciones internacionales", los autores han integrado ambos niveles tomando como hilo conductor los cambios en el sistema internacional en el curso de los siglos XIX, XX y XXI. A partir de este principio, el enfoque cronológico vertebra un recorrido que abarca desde el sistema de Estados europeos consagrado en el Congreso de Viena de 1815, hasta el orden multipolar actual, alumbrado bajo el influjo de la globalización posterior a la Guerra Fría y la depresión iniciada en 2007 a través de un continuo reequilibrio entre viejas y nuevas potencias con aspiraciones hegemónicas. Un recorrido histórico, riguroso a la vez que divulgativo, profusamente ilustrado con mapas y gráficos para hacer más comprensible su lectura, con el objetivo de llegar tanto al estudioso y profesional de las relaciones internacionales como al lector interesado por la Historia.
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Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und andere westeuropäische Industriestaaten warben von den 1950er ... more Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und andere westeuropäische Industriestaaten warben von den 1950er bis zu den frühen 1970er Jahren Millionen ausländische Arbeitskräfte an, um ihre nationalen Arbeitsmärkte in Zeiten der Hochkonjunktur zu ergänzen. Zahlreiche bilaterale Anwerbeabkommen boten den Rahmen. Bis heute werden die Folgen des "Gastarbeiter"-Systems unter dem Stichwort "Integration" kontrovers diskutiert. Das Sammelwerk bietet aktuelle Ergebnisse der Historischen Migrationsforschung. Dabei werden die Bedingungen und Formen der Anwerbung und deren Auswirkungen für Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik ebenso untersucht wie Aspekte der Integration auf kommunaler und nationaler Ebene. Diese übergreifende Perspektive ermöglicht neue Einblicke in die Geschichte der Arbeitsmigration.
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El objeto de esta Tesis es el análisis de las relaciones entre España y la República Federal de A... more El objeto de esta Tesis es el análisis de las relaciones entre España y la República Federal de Alemania (RFA) entre 1949 y 1966 desde tres niveles de análisis principales. Estos son: las relaciones políticas incluyendo la política de defensa y seguridad, los intercambios económicos, y el flujo emigratorio de trabajadores españoles con destino a Alemania. Los tres niveles se abordan en íntima relación con su contexto internacional. Ello permite superar el marco estrictamente bilateral, e incardinar las hispano-alemanas en los amplios procesos de cambio que experimenta el sistema internacional en este periodo, marcado por el tránsito desde la Guerra Fría hasta los primeros signos de la Distensión entre los bloques. Partiendo de las necesidades de inserción internacional de España y la República Federal de Alemania tras 1945, se analiza así el lugar que cada país ocupaba en la agenda de la política exterior del otro, los objetivos de cada gobierno, y el grado de consecución de los mismos. Trás una primera etapa (1949-1958) en que las relaciones hispano-alemanas estuvieron predominantemente condicionadas y limitadas por problemas heredados de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se produce, en una segunda fase (1958-1966), una profundización, intensificación y diversificación en estas relaciones. Para la España de Franco, la RFA aparece cada vez más como un importante valedor exterior en la operación de estabilización y liberalización económica, y de aproximación a Europa, emprendida por el régimen a partir de 1957. Los gobiernos de la RFA, a su vez, apoyarán esta operación, como medio para favorecer la penetración de la economía alemana en España y de contribuir a la estabilidad de la península Ibérica, con el fin último de reforzar el bloque occidental. En conexión con este argumento central se analizan, asimismo, una serie de puntos de la agenda bilateral hispano-alemana, como son: la posición del gobierno español ante la división de Alemania y la doctrina Hallstein; el apoyo alemán a la aproximación española al proceso de construcción europea y a la OTAN; las relaciones industriales y la ayuda al desarrollo concedida por Alemania a España; y las movilizaciones políticas de signo antifranquista surgidas entre los emigrantes españoles en Alemania, entre otras. Las distintas temáticas así abordadas se analizan teniendo en cuenta la complejidad aportada por la interacción de diversos actores dentro de España y Alemania, tanto estatales como no estatales, con capacidad de influir sobre las relaciones hispano-alemanas en este periodo.
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Journal Issues by Carlos Sanz
Revista de Estudios Europeos, 2023
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Migraciones y Exilios (2014), Nr. 14, pp. 5-84. ISSN: 1577-3256
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Varia Historia, 2022
In face of the growing systemic conflict between the West and China and the sudden escalation of ... more In face of the growing systemic conflict between the West and China and the sudden escalation of tensions with Russia in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, the concept of the Cold War reappears in recent years as a reference category. Terefore, the purpose of this article is to present an exhaustive and up-to-date review of the historiographical state of the art in relation to the concept, interpretations, physical and mental spaces and defining systemic structures of the world order between 1947 and 1991. Classic references are included, as well as the most recent, innovative and ground-breaking contributions to the historiography of the Cold War, which since 1991 has undergone a profound makeover, due to the broadening of interpretative categories and the multiplication of historiographical sources. Only by identifying what the Cold War really was will it be possible to construct valid comparative analyses, highlight lines of continuity, describe new variables and, ultimately, draw interpretative frameworks that allow us to understand a potential new cold war in light of the systemic confrontation during the second half of the twentieth century.
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Intus-Legere Historia, 2019
Se analiza la razón humanitaria que esgrimió Chile para ofrecer refugio y protección al ex líder ... more Se analiza la razón humanitaria que esgrimió Chile para ofrecer refugio y protección al ex líder de la República Democrática Oriental (RDA) Erich Honecker, en su Embajada en Moscú desde fines de 1991 hasta mediados de 1992. El tema, escasamente abordado por la historiografía internacionalista chilena y alemana, está basado en fuentes diplomáticas chilenas inéditas-especialmente el archivo James Holger-, prensa chilena y alemana del período, entrevistas a políticos y diplomáticos, sesiones parlamentarias de Chile y Alemania, archivo presidencial digital de Patricio Aylwin, entre otras. Se revelan los argumentos de una estrategia que apeló a la condición de salud del ex jerarca germanooriental y las confusas circunstancias que terminaron por agotar esa vía de solución para dar paso a largas gestiones jurídico/diplomáticas entre Chile, Alemania y Rusia, las que finalmente resolvieron el asunto.
Palabras claves: Chile-Alemania-Honecker-razón humanitaria-refugio
It analyses the humanitarian reason that wielded Chile to offer shelter and protection to the former leader of the German Democratic Republic (DDR), Erich Honecker, at the embassy in Moscow from the end of 1991 until mid-1992. The issue is scarce addressed by the Chilean and German internationalistic historiography, it is based on unpublished Chilean diplomatic sources-the James Holger file-, Chilean and German press of the period, interviews with politicians and diplomats, parliamentary sessions of Chile and Germany, and the digital Presidential archive of Patricio Aylwin, among others. It reveals the arguments of a strategy that appealed to the health condition of former East German hierarch and the confusing circumstances that ended up exhausting that way of solution, then replaced by legal/diplomatic efforts between Chile, Germany and Russia, those who ended up solving the matter.
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To achieve this, the authors trace a set of initiatives developed in recent decades around policies of truth, justice, reparations, memory, guarantees of non-repetition, and a gender perspective, specifically considering what Latin America can contribute to the Spanish and, by extension, European democratic discourse.
Far from being a distant past, today we see the Cold War as an unfinished story, whose shadows are projected on our present. After the promises of globalization and a new harmonious and cooperative world order inspired by the West, today geopolitics and the dynamics of rivalry and conflict are once again governing relations between the great powers. The aggressive rhetoric, the narrative of the spheres of influence, the proxy wars on the margins of the system, the formation of ideological fronts, the risk of a direct military confrontation between the central actors and the nuclear threat have emerged again with force, fueling the ghosts of a time that seemed definitively buried.
This book deciphers the complexity of the Cold War, providing not only the reconstruction of historical events, but also the keys to its interpretation. On the one hand, it brings the reader closer to the most up-to-date state of research, combining classic contributions with the most recent research, based on recently declassified archival sources. On the other hand, it integrates the various schools and interpretive approaches to the Cold War. The result is a work that, beyond the East-West political and military conflict, pays attention to the social, economic and cultural aspects and to the multiplicity of actors and scenarios at play, from a global perspective. A compact and methodical text that allows the reader to know and understand the Cold War, both as a historical time, and from the perspective of the past and current international system.
A la hora de articular esta "Historia de las relaciones internacionales", los autores han integrado ambos niveles tomando como hilo conductor los cambios en el sistema internacional en el curso de los siglos XIX, XX y XXI. A partir de este principio, el enfoque cronológico vertebra un recorrido que abarca desde el sistema de Estados europeos consagrado en el Congreso de Viena de 1815, hasta el orden multipolar actual, alumbrado bajo el influjo de la globalización posterior a la Guerra Fría y la depresión iniciada en 2007 a través de un continuo reequilibrio entre viejas y nuevas potencias con aspiraciones hegemónicas. Un recorrido histórico, riguroso a la vez que divulgativo, profusamente ilustrado con mapas y gráficos para hacer más comprensible su lectura, con el objetivo de llegar tanto al estudioso y profesional de las relaciones internacionales como al lector interesado por la Historia.
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Articles by Carlos Sanz
Palabras claves: Chile-Alemania-Honecker-razón humanitaria-refugio
It analyses the humanitarian reason that wielded Chile to offer shelter and protection to the former leader of the German Democratic Republic (DDR), Erich Honecker, at the embassy in Moscow from the end of 1991 until mid-1992. The issue is scarce addressed by the Chilean and German internationalistic historiography, it is based on unpublished Chilean diplomatic sources-the James Holger file-, Chilean and German press of the period, interviews with politicians and diplomats, parliamentary sessions of Chile and Germany, and the digital Presidential archive of Patricio Aylwin, among others. It reveals the arguments of a strategy that appealed to the health condition of former East German hierarch and the confusing circumstances that ended up exhausting that way of solution, then replaced by legal/diplomatic efforts between Chile, Germany and Russia, those who ended up solving the matter.
To achieve this, the authors trace a set of initiatives developed in recent decades around policies of truth, justice, reparations, memory, guarantees of non-repetition, and a gender perspective, specifically considering what Latin America can contribute to the Spanish and, by extension, European democratic discourse.
Far from being a distant past, today we see the Cold War as an unfinished story, whose shadows are projected on our present. After the promises of globalization and a new harmonious and cooperative world order inspired by the West, today geopolitics and the dynamics of rivalry and conflict are once again governing relations between the great powers. The aggressive rhetoric, the narrative of the spheres of influence, the proxy wars on the margins of the system, the formation of ideological fronts, the risk of a direct military confrontation between the central actors and the nuclear threat have emerged again with force, fueling the ghosts of a time that seemed definitively buried.
This book deciphers the complexity of the Cold War, providing not only the reconstruction of historical events, but also the keys to its interpretation. On the one hand, it brings the reader closer to the most up-to-date state of research, combining classic contributions with the most recent research, based on recently declassified archival sources. On the other hand, it integrates the various schools and interpretive approaches to the Cold War. The result is a work that, beyond the East-West political and military conflict, pays attention to the social, economic and cultural aspects and to the multiplicity of actors and scenarios at play, from a global perspective. A compact and methodical text that allows the reader to know and understand the Cold War, both as a historical time, and from the perspective of the past and current international system.
A la hora de articular esta "Historia de las relaciones internacionales", los autores han integrado ambos niveles tomando como hilo conductor los cambios en el sistema internacional en el curso de los siglos XIX, XX y XXI. A partir de este principio, el enfoque cronológico vertebra un recorrido que abarca desde el sistema de Estados europeos consagrado en el Congreso de Viena de 1815, hasta el orden multipolar actual, alumbrado bajo el influjo de la globalización posterior a la Guerra Fría y la depresión iniciada en 2007 a través de un continuo reequilibrio entre viejas y nuevas potencias con aspiraciones hegemónicas. Un recorrido histórico, riguroso a la vez que divulgativo, profusamente ilustrado con mapas y gráficos para hacer más comprensible su lectura, con el objetivo de llegar tanto al estudioso y profesional de las relaciones internacionales como al lector interesado por la Historia.
Palabras claves: Chile-Alemania-Honecker-razón humanitaria-refugio
It analyses the humanitarian reason that wielded Chile to offer shelter and protection to the former leader of the German Democratic Republic (DDR), Erich Honecker, at the embassy in Moscow from the end of 1991 until mid-1992. The issue is scarce addressed by the Chilean and German internationalistic historiography, it is based on unpublished Chilean diplomatic sources-the James Holger file-, Chilean and German press of the period, interviews with politicians and diplomats, parliamentary sessions of Chile and Germany, and the digital Presidential archive of Patricio Aylwin, among others. It reveals the arguments of a strategy that appealed to the health condition of former East German hierarch and the confusing circumstances that ended up exhausting that way of solution, then replaced by legal/diplomatic efforts between Chile, Germany and Russia, those who ended up solving the matter.
científica de historiadores la problemática actual para la consulta de la documentación histórica tanto del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, como del Ministerio de Defensa, en especial desde el año 2011 con la llegada al poder del actual gobierno. Temas hasta estos momentos abiertos y disponibles para la investigación se han ido cerrando progresivamente en los archivos de estos Ministerios, pero también en otros centros documentales. El origen se encuentra en un acuerdo «secreto»
del Consejo de Ministros de octubre de 2010 bajo mandato del presidente Rodríguez Zapatero.
The study highlights the bureaucratization and depersonalization of the decision-making process; the institutional adaptation to the principles and rules of democracy; the multiplication of decision and influence centers; the presidentialization and the foreign policy; and the redefinition of the role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the traditional instruments of diplomacy.
Cet article étudie l’évolution du processus de prise de décisions en politique étrangère en Espagne de la fin de la dictature du général Franco en 1975 jusqu’à la consolidation de la démocratie dans la deuxième moitié des années quatre-vingt.
L’analyse met en évidence la bureaucratisation et la dépersonnalisation de la prise de décision ; l’adaptation des institutions aux principes et aux règles de fonctionnement de la démocratie ; la multiplication des centres de décision et d’influence sur l’action internationale de l’État ; la présidentialisation de la politique étrangère ; et la redéfinition du rôle du ministère des Affaires étrangères et les instruments traditionnels de la diplomatie.
privacy regulations has severely curtailed access to historical documents. The vagueness and contradictions of the relevant norms, combined with the negligence typical of Spanish public archives, are posing greater burdens in researchers’ access to archival material. A situation worsened by the recent
governmental decision to extend the scope of the State Secrets Act (Ley de Secretos Oficiales) to cover a number of issues relating to foreign policy. As a result, historians are finding more and more difficult the study of recent Spanish History. "
Somos conscientes de que ése es un terreno movedizo en términos historiográficos. Tales sentimientos suelen escapar al registro documental, como también es complicado comparar los modus operandi de los distintos sindicalismos que intervinieron en esta historia. Cada quien tenía sus intereses, sus agendas, no siempre coincidentes con lo que, a priori, se esperaba de ellos, al otro lado de la trinchera. Fueron habituales, por ejemplo, las confusiones en torno a cuál debía ser el papel de los sindicatos dentro de la maquinaria de producción capitalista. Para el presidente de la todopoderosa confederación estadounidense American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), George Meany, estaba claro: “Nos consagramos a la preservación de ese sistema [el capitalista], que recompensa a los trabajadores, que es a la vez el sistema en el que la empresa tiene un gran interés.” afirmó en repetidas ocasiones
As a high-level State policy, the FE enjoyed strong official support —both in terms of funding and of political endorsement—, wide domestic and international diffusion, and allegedly a high level of success. That was the case during the 1960s, when the cooperation and networking of top politicians from the Spanish Ministry of Information and Tourism such as Manuel Fraga, Carlos Robles and Enrique de la Hoz resulted in both a qualitative and a qualitative increase of the FE. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of National Education (MNE) were also key actors in this political undertaking. In 1963 for instance 45 FE were celebrated and in 1969 their number amounted to 83, with about 800 different shows in 1964, whereas their budgets rose from 4-5 million pesetas in the 1950s to 100 million per year in the 1960s.
The expansion of the FE’s target audience may be considered as one of its most important pretended achievements. Not only did the FE try to bring supposedly educated art forms to the lower strata of the Spanish society —as it was the case in other contemporary European dictatorships—, but they also intended to boost the international acceptance of the dictatorship and the touristic attraction of Spain, reflecting the priorities of the Spanish foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s, by promoting Spanish performing arts abroad.
The aim of this paper is to analyze the FE campaigns as a tool of “soft power” displayed by the Spanish public diplomacy in order to affect both domestic and foreign audiences visually and emotionally for the sake of Francoist political legitimacy and booming economy. Special attention will be given to some state-driven musical, theatre and dance embassies to countries such as the USA, USSR or West Germany, with which the dictatorship pretended to foster a gentle image in the central decades of the Cold War. The reconstruction of this cultural machinery, the cooperation with unofficial actors —such as impresarios or private travel agencies—, the contradictions within the notion of “popular culture” used by the dictatorship, and the re-appropriation of the FE by the Spanish budding democracy since 1975 will also be discussed in this contribution.
From 1945 until 1973 the Federal Republic of Germany adopted a guest worker/Gastarbeiter system for managing its migratory flow. It was a fundamental part of the process towards creating an international labour market in Europe. Under this scheme, migration from Spain to the FRG was channelled via bureaucratic management and negotiations between the two countries. This generated an official infrastructure comprised of federal officials based in Madrid, (the German Commission) who received the recruitment requests from German companies, and officials from the Instituto Español de Emigración (IEE) [Spanish Migration Institute], with the aim of controlling the labour migration flow to the FRG. The Agreement between the Spanish State and the Federal Republic of Germany on the migration, employment and placement of Spanish workers, signed in 1960, was an example of this form of management.
Múnich, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012 (Colección “Studien zur Internationalen Geschichte, vol. 30).
Our network’s approach is “new” for two reasons: it is aimed specifically at the study of individuals and groups of individuals who perform diplomatic roles, rather than at international relations as a whole; and it integrates political and economic narratives with other perspectives and methodologies such as prosopography, the sociology of knowledge, gender theory and network analysis.
Our interests include, inter alia, the history of diplomatic institutions, practices, languages, norms, symbols, families, friendships, literature, associations, attitudes and methods. Our goal is to reassert professional diplomats and other diplomatic actors as important subjects of historical study while paving the way for further innovations in the understanding of international society. Although most of our own work is in the modern era, we are open to members with any chronological and geographic expertise.
The Trade Unions, in an International Context, 1888-1986
Madrid, November 19-21. 2018.
University Carlos III of Madrid, Campus of Getafe. [1]
DIRECTORS: :
Manuela Aroca Mohedano (FFLC-UC3M)
Rosario Ruiz Franco (UC3M)
SCIENTIFIC COMITTEE:
Andrea Ciampani - Universidad LUMSA (Italia)
Federico Romero - European University Institute
Robert Waters - Ohio Northern University (USA)
Carlos Sanz – Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Francisco Sánchez – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Eduardo Sánchez Calleja – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Directors: Manuela Aroca and Rosario Ruiz Franco
Secretary: Francisco Rodríguez Jiménez.
SCHEDULE-TIMINGS
Submission of Proposals: December 1st 2017 through January 31th 2018. (Max 200 words)
Notification of the acceptance of proposals: February 20th, 2018.
Deadline for submission of the complete texts: February 20th, 2018 through 30 September 2018 (6.000 to 9.000 words max)
Final acceptance notification: October 15, 2018
Email: intercionalismosindical@cec.ugt.org
LANGUAGES: Spanish and English, (simultaneous translation will be most probably provided)
MADRID, 2018.
The Francisco Largo Caballero Foundation and Carlos III University of Madrid have scheduled the International Conference: “The Trade Unions, in an International Context, 1888-1986” to be held November 19-21, 2018 on the campus of Getafe (Madrid), of the Carlos III University of Madrid. The international activities and agenda of the labour unions since their creation will be explored. Until recently, traditional historiography has attributed the responsibility of international relations, practically exclusively, to the action of States. However, despite the fact that they are mainly national entities, trade unions have developed from the outset supranational groupings and have maintained bilateral relations with partner organizations in other countries. In some historical circumstances, the support or international blockade of supranational institutions or unions in other countries has been central to the development and consolidation of trade unions. Therefore, this congress will study these international trade union relations, based mainly on the following areas of study: supranational organizations, bilateral relations between unions in different countries, relations with political parties in other countries and the constitution of or participation in humanitarian organizations supranational.
PRIORITY TOPICS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR ACCEPTANCE.
Although any issue related with the history of the international activities of trade unions can be evaluated, the following issues will be considered as priorities:
· Supranational trade union organizations.
· Trade union action in the International Labour Organization (ILO), or any other international organization in the world of work.
· Bilateral relations between unions of different countries, with the emphasis on studies in which one of them is a Spanish union.
· Linking of trade unions in international humanitarian organizations.
· Trade unions in exile and their relationship with trade unions and organizations in the host country.
· Examples of general international policy developed by trade unions.
· Presence and participation of women in international trade unionism. Labour and gender claims.
[1] Action developed in the framework of the R & D project, funded under the program of excellence HAR2013-44849-P, “THE INTERNATIONAL TRAJECTORY OF THE SPANISH SOCIALDEMOCRAT UNIONISM (1888-1986), Francisco Largo Caballero Foundation, Director: Manuela Aroca Mohedano.
Congreso Internacional - XI Jornadas FIES. Madrid, Fundación Ortega-Marañón, 20-23 noviembre 2017
The aim of this paper is to analyze the FE campaigns as a tool of “soft power” displayed by the Spanish public diplomacy in order to affect both domestic and foreign audiences visually and emotionally for the sake of Francoist political legitimacy and booming economy. Special attention will be given to some state-driven musical, theatre and dance embassies to countries such as the USA, USSR or West Germany, with which the dictatorship pretended to foster a gentle image in the central decades of the Cold War. The reconstruction of this cultural machinery, the cooperation with unofficial actors —such as impresarios or private travel agencies—, the contradictions within the notion of “popular culture” used by the dictatorship, and the re-appropriation of the FE by the Spanish budding democracy since 1975 will also be discussed in this contribution.
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Es además columnista de El País y de El Periódico de Catalunya, y colaboradora de diversos medios de comunicación como RNE, la cadena SER o el programa 24 horas de RTVE. Es además coordinadora editorial de la revista Pensamiento Iberoamericano, editada por Segib. Participa habitualmente como panelista y ponente en reuniones, seminarios y mesas redondas sobre diversas cuestiones internacionales.
Ha sido subdirectora general de la Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE), un think tank independiente con sede en Madrid.
Licenciada en Ciencias de la Información (rama Periodismo) por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, realizó estudios de post-grado en la Universidad de Maryland (Estados Unidos), gracias a la obtención de una Beca Fulbright. Durante más de 10 años fue Directora general de Reporter, empresa líder en publicaciones y comunicación corporativas
Es miembro de diversas organizaciones nacionales e internacionales, entre ellas, el Consejo español de ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations), el Consejo Científico del Real Instituto Elcano. los Patronatos de la Fundación Educación para el Empleo Europa y de Alianza por la Solidaridad y las Juntas directivas del capítulo español del Club de Roma y del Club de Madrid.