Politica externa portuguesa. O futuro do passado

In: Relações internacionais: R:I, Heft 5, S. 147-161

Abstract

During the last thirty years, democracy & development have been the engines driving Portuguese foreign policies. Portugal become once again a European country retaining important relations with the former colonies & in the transatlantic dimension. In the Portuguese case realism is not an option but an imperative need & a survival mechanism. Portuguese foreign policy should not be parochial & regionalist as its non-European dimensions are the best part of what it can bring unto Europe, at the same time it brings Europe to other parts of the world. Adapted from the source document.