El factor internacional en la transición españolala influencia del contexto internacional y el papel de las potencias centrales

Abstract

The Spanish Transition to democracy has been the aim of many studies, but the majority of the cases the transition has been analysed from the inside point of view or from the perspective of national actors. In our reserach we study, on the other hand, the International Factor in this process of transition. We consider the International Factor from two perspectives: on the one hand, the impact of this factor toward the domestic affairs, the influence of International Context and its actors; and, on the other hand, toward outside, the way of transition in the process of formulation, decision and execution of the foreign policy from authoritarianism to democracy. We show in this work a first results of the research about the influence of the International Context and set out a theorical and methodological proposal, that we test in the Spanish case. Finally, we study specifically the intervention of France, Germany and the United States of America as central powers in this international influence.