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Abstract
I suggest an analytical and reflective study around national identities, nationalisms and geopolitical controversial concepts, through which it was intended to extend the external projection of Spain and Portugal and frame transnational communities of destiny: Hispano-Americanism, Pan-Lusitanism and Pan-Latinism. Were these utopian expectations? Nationalist expectations to rebuild great nations of the past? What political impact did these proposals have? Did they contribute to deterritorializing and redefining the national identities of the Portuguese and Spanish elites? They were inciting but also controversial concepts. They carried an imperial historical background and projected future horizons. But they also raised national and indigenous resistances (indigenismo) and lively, strong debates in the old colonizing nations and also in Ibero-America. What was at stake was a consciousness of national identities and different strategies of defence and response of the Ibero-American nations vis-à-vis the powerful Northern empires.