The Federal Republic of Germany and the Portuguese Transition to Democracy (1974-1976)

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Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Ana Mónica
Data de Publicação: 2009
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/9667
Resumo: The Portuguese transition to democracy was the first in the third wave of democratization, which would reach not only Greece and Spain (in 1974 and 1975), but also Latin America (in the mid-1980s) and Eastern Europe (at the beginning of the 1990s).1 Because of its unexpectedness, the Portuguese democratization caught the attention of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Bonn’s foreign policy in this period was focused on détente, as a way of achieving the unification of the country. The main concern regarding the Western bloc was the stability, reinforcement and future enlargement of the European Economic Community (EEC). The expected scenario for the Iberian Peninsula was the future democratization of Spain (as general Franco was ill), which was expected to “contaminate” the Portuguese dictatorship. However, the Portuguese revolution inverted this prediction.
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title The Federal Republic of Germany and the Portuguese Transition to Democracy (1974-1976)
spellingShingle The Federal Republic of Germany and the Portuguese Transition to Democracy (1974-1976)
Fonseca, Ana Mónica
Federal Republic of Germany
Portugal
Democracy
title_short The Federal Republic of Germany and the Portuguese Transition to Democracy (1974-1976)
title_full The Federal Republic of Germany and the Portuguese Transition to Democracy (1974-1976)
title_fullStr The Federal Republic of Germany and the Portuguese Transition to Democracy (1974-1976)
title_full_unstemmed The Federal Republic of Germany and the Portuguese Transition to Democracy (1974-1976)
title_sort The Federal Republic of Germany and the Portuguese Transition to Democracy (1974-1976)
author Fonseca, Ana Mónica
author_facet Fonseca, Ana Mónica
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Fonseca, Ana Mónica
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Federal Republic of Germany
Portugal
Democracy
topic Federal Republic of Germany
Portugal
Democracy
description The Portuguese transition to democracy was the first in the third wave of democratization, which would reach not only Greece and Spain (in 1974 and 1975), but also Latin America (in the mid-1980s) and Eastern Europe (at the beginning of the 1990s).1 Because of its unexpectedness, the Portuguese democratization caught the attention of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Bonn’s foreign policy in this period was focused on détente, as a way of achieving the unification of the country. The main concern regarding the Western bloc was the stability, reinforcement and future enlargement of the European Economic Community (EEC). The expected scenario for the Iberian Peninsula was the future democratization of Spain (as general Franco was ill), which was expected to “contaminate” the Portuguese dictatorship. However, the Portuguese revolution inverted this prediction.
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