Roosevelt, Franco, and the End of the Second World War

Thomàs, Joan Maria

doi:10.1057/9780230118676

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“…27 24 "[E]l aislamiento al que el regimen franquista se vio sometido por parte de las naciones occidentales," García Delgado, 2008, p. 232. 25 Portero, 1989;Thomàs, 2011;Guirao, 1998. 26 The document goes on to describe as "desirable" the aim of bringing about a regime fully representative of the Spanish people that would restore to it the freedom and rights "of which they have been deprived by the totalitarian police methods of the present government."…”

Section: The International Factormentioning

confidence: 99%

Science and power: Francoist Spain (1939–1975) as a case study

Malet

2019

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This paper takes Franco's Spain to be a powerful case study for analyzing the ways in which power shapes science and technology and is shaped by them in return. Spain was the last country in Western Europe to establish closer links with any of the international cooperative institutions emerging after WWII. As such, developments internal to Spanish society were quite autonomous and relatively free from foreign influences. The paper focuses first on the brand new, powerful institution that the Francoist regime created to promote scientific research under tight political control, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Next it turns to applied science and technology, top priorities for the regime's state‐supported programs of industrialization. They were implemented through the politically and financially powerful Instituto Nacional de Industria. Using diplomatic sources, the paper next argues that, until the late 1950s, Spain maintained substantial political and economic isolation essentially because the regime bet on autarkic policies and a model of largely isolated development. In this model, it was crucial for the regime to develop its own technological and scientific resources. Finally, the paper examines how the regime fostered a new Spanish identity in which science had a new role.

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Section: The International Factormentioning

confidence: 99%