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The article aims to establish an analytical framework to understand the upsurge of the so-called historical revisionism of the Spanish Civil War. It argues that the phenomenon is not mainly and properly a historiographical enterprise but basically a socio-political attempt to rehabilitate
the Francoist regime and to counterbalance the impact of the Movement for the Recovery of Historical Memory. Five aspects are to be considered in this regard: the political objectives of the phenomenon, the recent demographical changes in the social structure of Spain, its national and international
context, the idealization of the Republican experience in the public domain and, finally, the clash of partisan memories reactivated in the last decade.

This article aims to examine those images of Spain and Spaniards which were dominant in Great Britain during the Spanish Civil War, 193639. Its basic conclusion is that these images corresponded to two large sets of stereotypes bequeathed by history (the Black Legend of the sixteenth
century and Romantic Myth of the nineteenth century) and were used as appropriate by both supporters of the Republic and of Franco in their respective propaganda battles.

This article examines and analyses the discussion over 'the Spanish Problem' taking place between the leaders of the three great Allied powers during the Postdam Conference of July–August 1945. It argues that the approved condemnation of the Franco regime was a bald rhetorical declaration which contained no effective sanctions, be they diplomatic, economic or military. The reference to Spain was the result of a minimal agreement reached with great difficulty after arduous negotiations which resulted in the imposition of a toothless international ostracism. Consequently, aided by the disintegration of the Grand Alliance and its replacement by the Cold War, the Francoist dictatorship cautiously inched its way to post-war survival.

The military coup of July 1936 against the Republican government of Spain, which rapidly developed into civil war, required an urgent response from the authorities of the United Kingdom. This was as much on account of its effects on British interests in Spain as due to its repercussions on the unstable situation in Europe. During the nearly three years of war, the Conservative-dominated Cabinet adhered to the Non-Intervention pact signed by all European governments in August 1936, which prescribed an arms embargo towards the combatants without a parallel recognition of their rights as belligerents. This peculiar neutrality, which combined respect for the legal status of the recognized government withde factoequal status for the rebels, was defended by British officialdom on the grounds of the over-riding need to restrict the war and avoid its escalation into a general European conflict. The argument served to deflect accusations of hidden antagonism towards the Republic and to justify the continuation of this policy of neutrality despite the support of Italy and Germany for the insurgent forces, so tolerating in practice the sabotage of the policy of non-intervention by the fascist powers. In the face of these official explanations, which have been accepted at face value by many historians, this article will attempt to show that British non-intervention had its origins in antirevolutionary pre-occupations rather than in strictly diplomatic considerations. Furthermore, it will be argued that during the first six months of the war it adhered consistently to a political strategy based on the expectation that the war would be short lived.

Esta obra contiene las actas del seminario doctoral Las Relaciones exteriores y politicas de la Union Europea y la cooperacion en el Mediterraneo, organizado por la Fundacion Academia Europea de Yuste con la colaboracion de la Red SEGEI en el Real Monasterio de Yuste y Palacio de Carlos V, en Extremadura, Espana (del 16 al 18 de noviembre de 2011). Ce livre contient les actes du seminaire doctoral Relations exterieures et politiques de l'Union europeenne et cooperation en Mediterranee organise par la Fondation Academie europeenne de Yuste avec la collaboration du reseau SEGEI, au Monastere