West Germany and the Portuguese dictatorship
Between Cold War and Colonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11480454 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christiane Abele (University of Freiburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 182-184 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-089X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/gerhis/ghv115 |
| OpenAlex | W2297455263 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
At least since Odd Arne Westad’s seminal survey on the ‘Global Cold War’ (2007), it has been evident that decolonization and Cold War must be treated as interrelated phenomena. Both are cornerstones of Rui Lopes’s recently published monograph on the West German policy towards Portugal between 1968 and 1974, when both countries were experiencing, as Lopes suggests, a period of political transition, ‘yearning for transformation, tempered with a devotion to stability’ (pp. 9, 245). While the FRG was, for the first time, being governed by a Social Democratic government under Willy Brandt, Portugal underwent what came to be the last phase of the New State dictatorship, as Marcelo Caetano took office from the ageing António Salazar, (vainly) generating hopes of liberalization and decolonization. At the same time, Portugal fought colonial wars in its African colonies of Angola, Guinea and Mozambique, which had increasingly come to be condemned by international public opinion and placed the traditionally anticolonialist German Social Democrats in a predicament. Lopes’s book depicts this predicament from the FRG’s point of view, considering diplomatic, parliamentary, military and party archives as well as a number of West German periodicals.
Colonialism · Decolonization · Democracy · Dictatorship · Economic history · German · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · History · History, Culture, and Society · Japanese History and Culture · Law
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |