Foreign Policy up to the Spanish Civil War

1970 ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Wiskemann
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War

PRIORITIES OF SPAIN'S FOREIGN POLICY DURING THE SECOND REPUBLIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Natalia Anikeeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Government

The article analyzes the priorities of Spanish foreign policy during the Second Republic. It was proclaimed in Spain after the municipal elections. Then King Alphonse XIII was forced to leave the country and announced that he did not give up his rights to the Spanish throne. As for the priorities of foreign policy during the Second Republic, the author states that Spain at that time showed a lack of interest in international problems, as was the case under the dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbanehi. On October 14, 1931, the head of the government, Manuel Azaña y Díaz, after the resignation of the Provisional Government of Niceto Alcala Zamora, emphasized that “foreign policy is inherited from regime to regime”. During this period, the European direction became the main one in foreign policy. The fundamental interests of the Spanish state revolved around the classical "axis" of the Mediterranean, Great Britain, France, Italy. In the period from the end of 1935. and until the summer of 1936. the priority of domestic political problems over foreign ones was observed. Since the acuteness of internal tension associated with the Spanish Civil War has made adjustments to the principles proclaimed by the governments of the Second Republic.

The Historiography of fascist foreign policy

1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Corrado Azzi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Fascist Regime

ABSTRACTThis article analyses how, in the last half-century, scholars have differed over the nature of Italian foreign policy under the fascist regime. It examines the debate between orthodox and revisionist historians over Mussolini's foreign policy in general, and also over three specific areas of Italian policy in the interwar years: Franco-Italian relations, Italian participation in the Spanish Civil War, and the alliance with nazi Germany. The author concludes that much of the debate has arisen because of conceptual befuddlement; writers have been primarily concerned with questions of coherence and continuity, and not with understanding Italian foreign relations. Historians have also disagreed over whether Mussolini had a ‘programme’, but a closer look shows that many of them were engaging in a semantic debate, and did not differ over the nature of fascist policy.

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