Since the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of the European Union and Nato have been keys to Spain's new prominence, although the country has also tried to build on its traditional "special relationships" with Latin America and the Arab world. This is the first thorough study of democratic Spain's re-emergence on the international scene. By focusing on the relationship between external relations and domestic policy the book makes an important contribution to the literature on democratisation, as well as showing how Spanish foreign policy evolved between the mid- 1970s and mid-1990s. Different perspectives on the development of external relations are presentedby way of an introduction and a guide to subsequent chapters. While the book focuses on democratic Spain, its revisionist view of democratic transitions is of more general relevance. Democratisation is seen as an integral process involving related but not simultaneous changes in domestic policy and external relations. Only with the transformation of her external relations did Spain's new democracy finally become cons