Los Países Bajos ante la guerra civil española: la polémica del asilo diplomático (1936-1939)

Authors

Antonio Manuel Moral Roncal Università di Alcalá de Henares

Keywords:

Spain, XXth. Century, Civil War, international relationships, Low Countries, diplomatic asylum

Abstract

This study examines the diplomatic relations between the Low Countries and the two warring parties during the Spanish Civil War, focusing on an unparalleled event in the history of international relations: the granting of mass political asylum. Although the Low Countries were regarded as a second-rate power, both the Republican and the Francoist government tried to obtain political and economic support from this country, which remained as neutral throughout three years of the war as its national interests required.

Received: 24-04-2006

Author Biography

Antonio Manuel Moral Roncal, Università di Alcalá de Henares

Antonio Manuel Moral Roncal lavora come professore a contratto presso il Departamento de Historia II della Università di Alcalá de Henares. Si è addottorato in storia presso l’Università Autónoma di Madrid, ed ha conseguito diversi premi in riconoscimento del suo lavoro storiografico e di ricerca. I suoi ambiti di ricerca sono la crisi dell’Ancien régime in Spagna e l’asilo diplomatico e consolare durante la Guerra civile spagnola. Il suo lavoro più recente su questo argomento è il volume Cuba ante la Guerra Civil Española. La acción diplomática de Ramón Estalella, con introduzione di Juan Pablo Fusi (Madrid, 2003).