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- Title
Los socialistas españoles y la cuestión atlántica hasta el referéndum de 1986.
- Authors
Mateos, Abdón
- Abstract
The position of the PSOE with regard to the NATO was the last great ideological change imposed by Felipe González, during the first socialist legislature. The «active neutrality» sustained by the majority of the new anti francoist force after 1956 was accepted by the renovated PSOE. It was though a short-lived phenomenon since the post-war party had been in favour of the Atlantic Alliance, despite its pro- European stance. The «deliberate ambiguity» of the moderate socialist leader in relation to a referendum to leave NATO allowed its party to concentrate the vote of the radical left in 1982. However, it created tensions in Spanish society, indebted the party and delayed its acquisition of an international culture. The shift in this field to a pro-NATO stance occurred shortly after the PSOE came to power, since the new Government needed it to unlock the entry of Spain in the European Economic Community.
- Subjects
SPAIN; P.S.O.E. (Political party : Spain); NORTH Atlantic Treaty Organization; SPANISH foreign relations; SOCIALISM; SPANISH politics &; government, 1975-2014; VOTING; REFERENDUM
- Publication
Ayer: Revista de Historia Contemporánea, 2016, Vol 103, Issue 3, p51
- ISSN
1134-2277
- Publication type
Article