Marina Pérez De Arcos
Biographic Data
| ID | 4153268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marina Pérez De Arcos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marina Pérez |
| FAMILY NAME | De Arcos |
| SIGNATURE | DE ARCOS M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5364-4040 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transimperial Internment
During the First World War, Spain engaged in humanitarian activities, including caring for internees, to substantiate its neutrality. On the African front, Spain’s small Central African territory became a refuge for German troops as the French and British seized control of Cameroon. By bringing together voices from Germany, Britain, and Spain, as well as some Cameroonian perspectives, the article offers a fresh narrative about the transcontinenta…
Wartime internment in camps as a global practice and experience
This double special issue examines internment camps in the First and Second World Wars as exceptional wartime social institutions which were intended to isolate and segregate groups considered threatening or undesirable but also had the unintended effect of becoming zones of knowledge transfer. The studies of internment in the world wars presented here connect to a broader historiography around cultures of confinement, carceral practices, and cam…
Rethinking Thinkers in International Relations
In this article, we advocate for mainstream International Relations (IR) to acknowledge the agency of ‘global thinkers’ who have been overlooked or insufficiently engaged with in the discipline. This neglect stems from IR’s origins and formalisation that excludes diverse voices in its understanding of international thought. To address this issue, we propose a framework to actively engage with overlooked global thinkers, emphasising linguistic, re…
Aristocratic Women and the Great War
To test the claim – well established in the English-language historiography – that the Spanish aristocracy sided primarily with Germany during the First World War, this article examines the allegiances and wartime activities of three Spanish noblewomen: Adela Crooke y Guzmán, Countess of Valencia de Don Juan; Carmen Sánchez de Movellán, daughter of the first Marquess of Movellán; and Emilia, Countess of Pardo-Bazán. Despite their historical signi…
Like Father, Like Son’
The article sheds light on the significant and understudied bond between West German Chancellor and Nobel Peace Laureate Willy Brandt and Spanish President Felipe González. It is based on interviews with senior policy makers; archival material from the Ebert Foundation in Bonn; fresh material from Austria, Spain, Sweden, Portugal and the United States, and exclusive additional private papers. Drawing on these sources, the article identifies the t…
Education, Intelligence and Cultural Diplomacy at the British Council in Madrid, 1940–1941 Part 1
The British Council opened its first office in Madrid in 1940. It included an English language institute, a cultural centre and a children’s school. Based on new sources, this research (published as two separate articles in consecutive issues) examines the Council’s three-pronged work in wartime Spain: education, intelligence support activities and cultural diplomacy. It illuminates the crucial contribution made by Walter Starkie, the Hispanist w…
Education, Intelligence and Cultural Diplomacy at the British Council in Madrid, 1940–1941 Part 2
In 1940, the British Council founded its first Spanish branch by launching a new school for children as well as a rich cultural programme to counter Nazi and Fascist propaganda in Madrid. Secretly, it also supported the British Intelligence Services’ wartime effort. Based on new sources, the current article (the second in a two-part series) examines these activities in the early 1940s. It also brings to light the crucial contribution of the Counc…
Finding Out Whereabouts of Missing Persons’
A hybrid of personal and state humanitarian action, King Alfonso’s European War Office in Madrid’s Royal Palace reached across social classes, rival camps and continents, enabling Spain to pursue a policy of active neutrality in the First World War. Opened in 1915 in response to the large number of desperate requests addressed to Alfonso XIII from around the globe inquiring about the whereabouts, treatment and repatriation of loved ones (both sol…
Individual, Institution, and Impact
Guillermo J. de Osma (1853–1922) was the first Spaniard to study at Oxford after the Universities Tests Act 1871 opened the ancient universities of England to non-Anglicans. Known in his time as a diplomat, politician, art collector, and scholar, Osma established the first Spanish studentship and modern endowment at Oxford—the de Osma Studentship—in 1920. The Studentship has been held by many distinguished Oxford-trained Hispanists over the past …
Finding Out Whereabouts of Missing Persons’
A hybrid of personal and state humanitarian action, King Alfonso’s European War Office in Madrid’s Royal Palace reached across social classes, rival camps and continents, enabling Spain to pursue a policy of active neutrality in the First World War. Opened in 1915 in response to the large number of desperate requests addressed to Alfonso XIII from around the globe inquiring about the whereabouts, treatment and repatriation of loved ones (both sol…
Individual, Institution, and Impact
Guillermo J. de Osma (1853–1922) was the first Spaniard to study at Oxford after the Universities Tests Act 1871 opened the ancient universities of England to non-Anglicans. Known in his time as a diplomat, politician, art collector, and scholar, Osma established the first Spanish studentship and modern endowment at Oxford—the de Osma Studentship—in 1920. The Studentship has been held by many distinguished Oxford-trained Hispanists over the past …
Education, Intelligence and Cultural Diplomacy at the British Council in Madrid, 1940–1941 Part 1
The British Council opened its first office in Madrid in 1940. It included an English language institute, a cultural centre and a children’s school. Based on new sources, this research (published as two separate articles in consecutive issues) examines the Council’s three-pronged work in wartime Spain: education, intelligence support activities and cultural diplomacy. It illuminates the crucial contribution made by Walter Starkie, the Hispanist w…
Education, Intelligence and Cultural Diplomacy at the British Council in Madrid, 1940–1941 Part 2
In 1940, the British Council founded its first Spanish branch by launching a new school for children as well as a rich cultural programme to counter Nazi and Fascist propaganda in Madrid. Secretly, it also supported the British Intelligence Services’ wartime effort. Based on new sources, the current article (the second in a two-part series) examines these activities in the early 1940s. It also brings to light the crucial contribution of the Counc…
Finding Out Whereabouts of Missing Persons’
A hybrid of personal and state humanitarian action, King Alfonso’s European War Office in Madrid’s Royal Palace reached across social classes, rival camps and continents, enabling Spain to pursue a policy of active neutrality in the First World War. Opened in 1915 in response to the large number of desperate requests addressed to Alfonso XIII from around the globe inquiring about the whereabouts, treatment and repatriation of loved ones (both sol…
Like Father, Like Son’
The article sheds light on the significant and understudied bond between West German Chancellor and Nobel Peace Laureate Willy Brandt and Spanish President Felipe González. It is based on interviews with senior policy makers; archival material from the Ebert Foundation in Bonn; fresh material from Austria, Spain, Sweden, Portugal and the United States, and exclusive additional private papers. Drawing on these sources, the article identifies the t…
Aristocratic Women and the Great War
To test the claim – well established in the English-language historiography – that the Spanish aristocracy sided primarily with Germany during the First World War, this article examines the allegiances and wartime activities of three Spanish noblewomen: Adela Crooke y Guzmán, Countess of Valencia de Don Juan; Carmen Sánchez de Movellán, daughter of the first Marquess of Movellán; and Emilia, Countess of Pardo-Bazán. Despite their historical signi…
Transimperial Internment
During the First World War, Spain engaged in humanitarian activities, including caring for internees, to substantiate its neutrality. On the African front, Spain’s small Central African territory became a refuge for German troops as the French and British seized control of Cameroon. By bringing together voices from Germany, Britain, and Spain, as well as some Cameroonian perspectives, the article offers a fresh narrative about the transcontinenta…
Wartime internment in camps as a global practice and experience
This double special issue examines internment camps in the First and Second World Wars as exceptional wartime social institutions which were intended to isolate and segregate groups considered threatening or undesirable but also had the unintended effect of becoming zones of knowledge transfer. The studies of internment in the world wars presented here connect to a broader historiography around cultures of confinement, carceral practices, and cam…
Rethinking Thinkers in International Relations
In this article, we advocate for mainstream International Relations (IR) to acknowledge the agency of ‘global thinkers’ who have been overlooked or insufficiently engaged with in the discipline. This neglect stems from IR’s origins and formalisation that excludes diverse voices in its understanding of international thought. To address this issue, we propose a framework to actively engage with overlooked global thinkers, emphasising linguistic, re…
Political science (9 works) · History (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (4 works) · Diplomacy (3 works) · History of Education in Spain (3 works)