Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses
Biographic Data
| ID | 5657085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses |
| GIVEN NAMES | Filipe Ribeiro |
| FAMILY NAME | de Meneses |
| SIGNATURE | DE MENESES F R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Football and Fascism: The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal, by Rahul Kumar
The Portuguese Republic at War: States of Emergency or Business as Usual
During Portugal’s troubled and divisive participation in the First World War, successive governments resorted to emergency powers in order to keep order throughout the country, notably in Lisbon. Considering that in 1926 the army took power through a coup d’état, and that this gave way over time to Salazar’s Estado Novo, it is tempting to establish a causal link between these two sets of events. This article suggests, however, that the repeated s…
Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die, by Tom Gallagher
‘Certain information and insight’, writes Tom Gallagher in the introduction to his book, ‘could have been gleaned by carrying out intensive work’ in the Salazar papers, stored in the Portuguese National Archive. This is an understatement. Constrained by the need to take advantage of the fiftieth anniversary of Salazar’s death, the author has produced a book which falls between two stools: it is neither an extended personal reflection on recent Po…
Portuguese Africa: Rebellion and Resilience
In this chapter, Ribeiro de Meneses and McNamara summarize Portugal’s colonial wars in Angola and Mozambique, including an emphasis on South African and Rhodesian readings of the conflict. There is an examination of the prospects and problems of the key liberation groups. They explain the implications of the widening of the war in both Angola and Mozambique, as well as Portugal’s conflicting strategies of engagement and confrontation with black A…
First to Fall: Portugal from Coup to Revolution
The first part of this chapter looks at the conflicting pressures regarding Portugal’s colonial struggles that fell on Salazar’s successor, Marcelo Caetano. These gave hints that Portugal’s open-ended commitment to colonial wars was beginning to break down. The second half explores the Portuguese Revolution in detail and why its development meant that decolonization would turn out to be a much swifter and messier process than it might otherwise h…
Defying the Wind of Change
The forces pushing Portugal, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa together are examined. This chapter begins with a discussion of the sometimes fraught relationships between the white-ruled states of southern Africa, questioning how much of a solid white monolith there actually was before 1960. It proceeds to detail the ‘white states of emergency’ that transformed the national and international politics of southern Africa between 1959 and 1961 and …
Debacle and Détente Redux: South Africa in Angola and Rhodesia, 1975–1977
This chapter traces the end of Portuguese Angola, the South African intervention in the Angolan Civil War, Soviet and Cuban responses, the American dimension and the failed attempt by Henry Kissinger to bring about agreement in southern Africa to forestall further communist adventures in the region.
Guya Accornero. The Revolution before the Revolution: Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal
The White Redoubt, the Great Powers and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1960–1980
This work examines the attempt by the governments of Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa to defy the drive for African independence in the 1960s and 70s, and the international community's response. Fr
Salazar face à la Shoah
In recent years, our understanding of Portugal’s part in the Holocaust has increased immeasurably, thanks to the work of a number of determined historians. Portugal became an important, if not quite attractive, point of passage for Jews fleeing the European continent after the fall of France in 1940, a year in which thousands of refugees passed through its border. Some, having nowhere to go, remained for a time, forced to live in the country’s em…
The Portuguese Empire
This Chapter examines the relationship between the metropolis and the two principal colonies, Angola and Mozambique, during the First World War. It seeks to demonstrate how Portugal’s economic weakness and inability to rally its population around the war effort meant that, whereas other Allied colonial powers were able to mobilize their empires to aid them in the fight against Germany, Portugal actually exhausted itself in the struggle to protect…
Parallel Diplomacy, Parallel War: The Pide/DGS’s Dealings with Rhodesia and South Africa, 1961–74
PIDE/DGS, Portugal’s secret police during the New State (1932–74), had an important role to play in the country’s colonial wars, which lasted from 1961 to 1974. Using documentation circulated at meetings held regularly with the police forces and intelligence services of UDI Rhodesia and South Africa, this article attempts to reveal the scale, and the limitations, of PIDE/DGS’s ambitions in that conflict
Exercise Alcora: Expansion and Demise, 1971–4
Exercise ALCORA, launched in 1970, was a military understanding negotiated, in secret, by Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa. Between October 1970 and April 1974 there were regular meetings of the various ALCORA bodies, which had the effect of bringing closer the staff officers of the three armed forces. The military ties between the three countries were further deepened through the creation of permanent ALCORA planning and intelligence organis…
South Africa and the Aftermath of Portugal's ‘Exemplary’ Decolonization: The Security Dimension
Allister Sparks, in his seminal study of Apartheid, The Mind of South Africa, writes: ‘though it occurred five thousand miles away among another people in another continent, in South Africa the Portuguese Revolution was an event of catalytic importance that changed the whole directional flow of public affairs’. 25 April 1974 was, for Sparks, a ‘simultaneous turning point at which the Afrikaner revolution created and entered a phase of crisis and …
The Origins of Exercise Alcora, 1960–71
Over the course of the 1960s, Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa, hard-pressed by African nationalist movements and international opinion, grew closer together, realising that their common enemies could only be defeated by a common stance. The most important attempt to meet the threat to white political domination in Southern Africa was Exercise ALCORA, a military understanding negotiated, in secret, in October 1970. From then until the Portugu…
The Last Throw of the Dice: Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1970–74
portrayed as no longer having any definite strategy when it came to her colonial possessions by the late 1960s and early 70s. The country is depicted as hanging on to them for no obvious reason other than the fact that the regime’s fate was tied to the wars in Africa and so these had to continue, whatever the cost to the local and metropolitan population, to Portugal’s finances (even if the recent discovery of oil in Angola, among other positive …
The Last Throw of the Dice: Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1970–74
In 1970, Exercise ALCORA, an open-ended but secret military partnership, was entered into by the Portuguese, Rhodesian and South African governments. Partly motivated by South African concerns about Portugal's military performance in Angola, ALCORA, despite its evident shortcomings, seemed to promise — to some influential Portuguese officers at least — a military victory against the white redoubt's common enemy: African nationalist movements and …
Salazar, the Portuguese Army and Great War Commemoration, 1936–45
António de Oliveira Salazar, dictatorial premier of Portugal from 1932 to 1968, like most conservatives of his generation, had opposed Portugal's intervention in the Great War. Once in power, and especially during his time as Minister of War (1936–44), Salazar attempted to wind down the commemoration ceremonies, which centred on 9 April. His failure to do so is very revealing of the difficult relationship between Salazar and the Portuguese army, …
A comemoração da Grande Guerra em Portugal: 1919-1926
Popularizing Africanism: The Career of Víctor Ruiz Albéniz, El Tebib Arrumi
From 1909 to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War there was a recurring theme in the writings of all those who dealt with Morocco: the fact that the fate of the Protectorate did not interest Spanish public opinion, becoming a preoccupation only when a military reversal took place. This article aims to examine the work of one man who devoted his life to overcoming that situation, using all means available to him to make the Spanish public appreci…
The Origins and Nature of Authoritarian Rule in Portugal, 1919–1945
Aniceto Afonso, História de uma conspiração: Sinel de Cordes e o 28 de Maio (Lisbon: Editorial Notícias, 2000), 222 pp., [euro]12.97, ISBN 972-46-1175-2. Manuel Baiôa, Elites políticas em Évora: Da I República à ditadura militar (1925–1926) (Lisbon: Edições Cosmos, 2000), preface by António Costa Pinto, xvi +344 pp., [euro]21.45, ISBN 972-762-199-6. Telmo Faria, Debaixo de fogo! Salazar e as forças armadas (1935–41) (Lisbon: Edições Cosmos & Inst…
Investigating Portugal, Salazar, and the New State: The Work of the Irish Legation in Lisbon, 1942–1945
Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, Portugal and its regime, Salazar's New State, were presented to the Irish public as a model of a new, socially just and Catholic brand of politics. Deliberately ignoring the repressive nature of the New State, Irish defenders of corporativism benefited from the lack of impartial information concerning it. This lack of information, at least in official circles, was overcome through the establishment of a legat…
All of Us are Looking Forward to Leaving’: The Censored Correspondence of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in France, 1917–18
Historians, in order to better understand the experience of life on the Western Front during the First World War, have sought out testimonies written at the time, not subject to the distortions of passing time. Among these sources of information correspondence with the home front, for all of its imperfections, provides an unparalleled insight into a military unit’s experience of battle and life in the trenches. This article focuses on the Portugu…
Sidónio Pais, the Portuguese 'New Republic' and the Challenge to Liberalism in Southern Europe
Too Serious a Matter to be Left to the Generals? Parliament and the Army in Wartime Portugal, 1914–18
The conflict between national assemblies and army high commands was common feature of the political landscape of most belligerent countries during the first world war. There were, of course, variations to this conflict, the power balance between parliaments, governments and military commands differed from country to country. After having conceded powers to the executive branch and having exercised restraint over the military handling of the war, …
The Origins of Exercise Alcora, 1960–71
Over the course of the 1960s, Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa, hard-pressed by African nationalist movements and international opinion, grew closer together, realising that their common enemies could only be defeated by a common stance. The most important attempt to meet the threat to white political domination in Southern Africa was Exercise ALCORA, a military understanding negotiated, in secret, in October 1970. From then until the Portugu…
Exercise Alcora: Expansion and Demise, 1971–4
Exercise ALCORA, launched in 1970, was a military understanding negotiated, in secret, by Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa. Between October 1970 and April 1974 there were regular meetings of the various ALCORA bodies, which had the effect of bringing closer the staff officers of the three armed forces. The military ties between the three countries were further deepened through the creation of permanent ALCORA planning and intelligence organis…
The White Redoubt, the Great Powers and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1960–1980
This work examines the attempt by the governments of Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa to defy the drive for African independence in the 1960s and 70s, and the international community's response. Fr
Parallel Diplomacy, Parallel War: The Pide/DGS’s Dealings with Rhodesia and South Africa, 1961–74
PIDE/DGS, Portugal’s secret police during the New State (1932–74), had an important role to play in the country’s colonial wars, which lasted from 1961 to 1974. Using documentation circulated at meetings held regularly with the police forces and intelligence services of UDI Rhodesia and South Africa, this article attempts to reveal the scale, and the limitations, of PIDE/DGS’s ambitions in that conflict
The Last Throw of the Dice: Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1970–74
portrayed as no longer having any definite strategy when it came to her colonial possessions by the late 1960s and early 70s. The country is depicted as hanging on to them for no obvious reason other than the fact that the regime’s fate was tied to the wars in Africa and so these had to continue, whatever the cost to the local and metropolitan population, to Portugal’s finances (even if the recent discovery of oil in Angola, among other positive …
The Last Throw of the Dice: Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1970–74
In 1970, Exercise ALCORA, an open-ended but secret military partnership, was entered into by the Portuguese, Rhodesian and South African governments. Partly motivated by South African concerns about Portugal's military performance in Angola, ALCORA, despite its evident shortcomings, seemed to promise — to some influential Portuguese officers at least — a military victory against the white redoubt's common enemy: African nationalist movements and …
Salazar, the Portuguese Army and Great War Commemoration, 1936–45
António de Oliveira Salazar, dictatorial premier of Portugal from 1932 to 1968, like most conservatives of his generation, had opposed Portugal's intervention in the Great War. Once in power, and especially during his time as Minister of War (1936–44), Salazar attempted to wind down the commemoration ceremonies, which centred on 9 April. His failure to do so is very revealing of the difficult relationship between Salazar and the Portuguese army, …
A comemoração da Grande Guerra em Portugal: 1919-1926
Sidónio Pais, the Portuguese 'New Republic' and the Challenge to Liberalism in Southern Europe
Too Serious a Matter to be Left to the Generals? Parliament and the Army in Wartime Portugal, 1914–18
The conflict between national assemblies and army high commands was common feature of the political landscape of most belligerent countries during the first world war. There were, of course, variations to this conflict, the power balance between parliaments, governments and military commands differed from country to country. After having conceded powers to the executive branch and having exercised restraint over the military handling of the war, …
All of Us are Looking Forward to Leaving’: The Censored Correspondence of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in France, 1917–18
Historians, in order to better understand the experience of life on the Western Front during the First World War, have sought out testimonies written at the time, not subject to the distortions of passing time. Among these sources of information correspondence with the home front, for all of its imperfections, provides an unparalleled insight into a military unit’s experience of battle and life in the trenches. This article focuses on the Portugu…
The Origins and Nature of Authoritarian Rule in Portugal, 1919–1945
Aniceto Afonso, História de uma conspiração: Sinel de Cordes e o 28 de Maio (Lisbon: Editorial Notícias, 2000), 222 pp., [euro]12.97, ISBN 972-46-1175-2. Manuel Baiôa, Elites políticas em Évora: Da I República à ditadura militar (1925–1926) (Lisbon: Edições Cosmos, 2000), preface by António Costa Pinto, xvi +344 pp., [euro]21.45, ISBN 972-762-199-6. Telmo Faria, Debaixo de fogo! Salazar e as forças armadas (1935–41) (Lisbon: Edições Cosmos & Inst…
Investigating Portugal, Salazar, and the New State: The Work of the Irish Legation in Lisbon, 1942–1945
Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, Portugal and its regime, Salazar's New State, were presented to the Irish public as a model of a new, socially just and Catholic brand of politics. Deliberately ignoring the repressive nature of the New State, Irish defenders of corporativism benefited from the lack of impartial information concerning it. This lack of information, at least in official circles, was overcome through the establishment of a legat…
Popularizing Africanism: The Career of Víctor Ruiz Albéniz, El Tebib Arrumi
From 1909 to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War there was a recurring theme in the writings of all those who dealt with Morocco: the fact that the fate of the Protectorate did not interest Spanish public opinion, becoming a preoccupation only when a military reversal took place. This article aims to examine the work of one man who devoted his life to overcoming that situation, using all means available to him to make the Spanish public appreci…
A comemoração da Grande Guerra em Portugal: 1919-1926
Salazar, the Portuguese Army and Great War Commemoration, 1936–45
António de Oliveira Salazar, dictatorial premier of Portugal from 1932 to 1968, like most conservatives of his generation, had opposed Portugal's intervention in the Great War. Once in power, and especially during his time as Minister of War (1936–44), Salazar attempted to wind down the commemoration ceremonies, which centred on 9 April. His failure to do so is very revealing of the difficult relationship between Salazar and the Portuguese army, …
The Last Throw of the Dice: Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1970–74
portrayed as no longer having any definite strategy when it came to her colonial possessions by the late 1960s and early 70s. The country is depicted as hanging on to them for no obvious reason other than the fact that the regime’s fate was tied to the wars in Africa and so these had to continue, whatever the cost to the local and metropolitan population, to Portugal’s finances (even if the recent discovery of oil in Angola, among other positive …
The Last Throw of the Dice: Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1970–74
In 1970, Exercise ALCORA, an open-ended but secret military partnership, was entered into by the Portuguese, Rhodesian and South African governments. Partly motivated by South African concerns about Portugal's military performance in Angola, ALCORA, despite its evident shortcomings, seemed to promise — to some influential Portuguese officers at least — a military victory against the white redoubt's common enemy: African nationalist movements and …
Exercise Alcora: Expansion and Demise, 1971–4
Exercise ALCORA, launched in 1970, was a military understanding negotiated, in secret, by Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa. Between October 1970 and April 1974 there were regular meetings of the various ALCORA bodies, which had the effect of bringing closer the staff officers of the three armed forces. The military ties between the three countries were further deepened through the creation of permanent ALCORA planning and intelligence organis…
South Africa and the Aftermath of Portugal's ‘Exemplary’ Decolonization: The Security Dimension
Allister Sparks, in his seminal study of Apartheid, The Mind of South Africa, writes: ‘though it occurred five thousand miles away among another people in another continent, in South Africa the Portuguese Revolution was an event of catalytic importance that changed the whole directional flow of public affairs’. 25 April 1974 was, for Sparks, a ‘simultaneous turning point at which the Afrikaner revolution created and entered a phase of crisis and …
The Origins of Exercise Alcora, 1960–71
Over the course of the 1960s, Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa, hard-pressed by African nationalist movements and international opinion, grew closer together, realising that their common enemies could only be defeated by a common stance. The most important attempt to meet the threat to white political domination in Southern Africa was Exercise ALCORA, a military understanding negotiated, in secret, in October 1970. From then until the Portugu…
The Portuguese Empire
This Chapter examines the relationship between the metropolis and the two principal colonies, Angola and Mozambique, during the First World War. It seeks to demonstrate how Portugal’s economic weakness and inability to rally its population around the war effort meant that, whereas other Allied colonial powers were able to mobilize their empires to aid them in the fight against Germany, Portugal actually exhausted itself in the struggle to protect…
Parallel Diplomacy, Parallel War: The Pide/DGS’s Dealings with Rhodesia and South Africa, 1961–74
PIDE/DGS, Portugal’s secret police during the New State (1932–74), had an important role to play in the country’s colonial wars, which lasted from 1961 to 1974. Using documentation circulated at meetings held regularly with the police forces and intelligence services of UDI Rhodesia and South Africa, this article attempts to reveal the scale, and the limitations, of PIDE/DGS’s ambitions in that conflict
Salazar face à la Shoah
In recent years, our understanding of Portugal’s part in the Holocaust has increased immeasurably, thanks to the work of a number of determined historians. Portugal became an important, if not quite attractive, point of passage for Jews fleeing the European continent after the fall of France in 1940, a year in which thousands of refugees passed through its border. Some, having nowhere to go, remained for a time, forced to live in the country’s em…
The White Redoubt, the Great Powers and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1960–1980
This work examines the attempt by the governments of Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa to defy the drive for African independence in the 1960s and 70s, and the international community's response. Fr
Portuguese Africa: Rebellion and Resilience
In this chapter, Ribeiro de Meneses and McNamara summarize Portugal’s colonial wars in Angola and Mozambique, including an emphasis on South African and Rhodesian readings of the conflict. There is an examination of the prospects and problems of the key liberation groups. They explain the implications of the widening of the war in both Angola and Mozambique, as well as Portugal’s conflicting strategies of engagement and confrontation with black A…
First to Fall: Portugal from Coup to Revolution
The first part of this chapter looks at the conflicting pressures regarding Portugal’s colonial struggles that fell on Salazar’s successor, Marcelo Caetano. These gave hints that Portugal’s open-ended commitment to colonial wars was beginning to break down. The second half explores the Portuguese Revolution in detail and why its development meant that decolonization would turn out to be a much swifter and messier process than it might otherwise h…
Defying the Wind of Change
The forces pushing Portugal, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa together are examined. This chapter begins with a discussion of the sometimes fraught relationships between the white-ruled states of southern Africa, questioning how much of a solid white monolith there actually was before 1960. It proceeds to detail the ‘white states of emergency’ that transformed the national and international politics of southern Africa between 1959 and 1961 and …
Debacle and Détente Redux: South Africa in Angola and Rhodesia, 1975–1977
This chapter traces the end of Portuguese Angola, the South African intervention in the Angolan Civil War, Soviet and Cuban responses, the American dimension and the failed attempt by Henry Kissinger to bring about agreement in southern Africa to forestall further communist adventures in the region.
Guya Accornero. The Revolution before the Revolution: Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal
Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die, by Tom Gallagher
‘Certain information and insight’, writes Tom Gallagher in the introduction to his book, ‘could have been gleaned by carrying out intensive work’ in the Salazar papers, stored in the Portuguese National Archive. This is an understatement. Constrained by the need to take advantage of the fiftieth anniversary of Salazar’s death, the author has produced a book which falls between two stools: it is neither an extended personal reflection on recent Po…
The Portuguese Republic at War: States of Emergency or Business as Usual
During Portugal’s troubled and divisive participation in the First World War, successive governments resorted to emergency powers in order to keep order throughout the country, notably in Lisbon. Considering that in 1926 the army took power through a coup d’état, and that this gave way over time to Salazar’s Estado Novo, it is tempting to establish a causal link between these two sets of events. This article suggests, however, that the repeated s…
Football and Fascism: The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal, by Rahul Kumar
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