Based on privileged access to some of Spain’s most important foreign policy actors – including Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos – the book offers an insider account of how Spanish foreign policy was shaped within the context of international diplomacy.
Morten Heiberg is Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an appointed member of the Royal Danish Academy and was awarded the Research Prize of Her Majesty Queen Margaret II of Denmark in 2018. He is the author of nine books, including a monograph on US-Spanish relations in the period 1975-1989 (2018).
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION.- CHAPTER 2: TERROR IN MADRID.- CHAPTER 3: BREAKING THE SHACKLES.- CHAPTER 4: A EUROPEAN HOUSE OF CARDS.- CHAPTER 5: FIDEL AND RAÚL.- CHAPTER 6: THE OTHER COMANDANTE.- CHAPTER 7: STUPID LITTLE ISLAND.- CHAPTER 8: ALLIANCE OR CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?.- CHAPTER NINE: CAPITALISM HAS DIED.- CONCLUSIONS.- A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ENDNOTE.- SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.-