Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: From the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry. Series D (1937-1945), Volume III, Germany and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

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.

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Arguing Americanism: Franco Lobbyists, Roosevelt's Foreign Policy, and the Spanish Civil War

The SHAFR Guide Online ◽

10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim120110267 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Civil War ◽

Spanish Civil War

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‘Review2014’: A Project of Reflection and Change in German Foreign Policy

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy ◽

10.1163/1871191x-12341322 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 421-429 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Thomas Bagger

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Action Plan ◽

Foreign Minister ◽

German Foreign Policy ◽

Link Type ◽

Foreign Ministry

The ‘Review2014’ project was announced by Frank-Walter Steinmeier on 17 December 2013, the very day of his return to the German Foreign Ministry for a second term as Foreign Minister after his first term from 2005-2009. He presented the project’s conclusions under the heading ‘Crisis, Order, Europe’ on 25 February 2015, to the ministry’s staff and the wider public (see online at http: //www.review2014.de). A more detailed Action Plan aims to implement a set of specific institutional and procedural changes by summer 2016. The more ambitious goal of changes to the German Foreign Ministry’s culture will require a long-term effort.

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‘Das Kind’ Revisited: Lord D'Abernon and German Security Policy 1922–1925

Contemporary European History ◽

10.1017/s0960777300002022 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 209-224 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Gaynor Johnson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

Security Policy ◽

The United States ◽

German Foreign Policy ◽

Brief Assessment ◽

Dynamic Forces ◽

German Security Policy ◽

Foreign Ministry

This article is a reassessment of F. G. Stambrook's well-known claim that Lord D'Abernon was the architect of German Locarno diplomacy. It suggests that Stambrook did not fully understand D'Abernon's relationship with the Luther–Stresemann government, and in particular it seeks to place German Locarno diplomacy within the wider context of German foreign policy in the period. It throws new light not only on the D'Abernon–von Schubert relationship but on the dynamic forces at work within the German Foreign Ministry. The article also contains a brief assessment of German relations with the United States.

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