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- Title
"La Monarquía hará que, bajo los principios de la democracia...". El primer viaje al exterior del rey de España, preparativos, desarrollo y consecuencias para la Transición española.
- Authors
Pereira Castañares, Juan Carlos; Fernández Fernández-Cuesta, Juan Manuel
- Abstract
This article focuses on the first journey of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía to the United States, in 1976. Modern historiography considers this fact was crucial to get the support of the US Administration in the early days of the Spanish transition to the democracy. This work -which matches with the 40th. anniversary of this event- is based on Spanish and US primary sources. After the study of these sources, we can state this journey opened a new democratic era in the Spanish foreign policy.
- Subjects
SPAIN; DEMOCRATIZATION; POLITICAL change; SPANISH politics &; government, 1975-2014; JUAN Carlos I, King of Spain, 1938-; SPANISH foreign relations; SPAIN-United States relations
- Publication
Cuadernos de Historia Contemporanea, 2016, Vol 38, p301
- ISSN
0214-400X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5209/CHCO.53680