University Research Group on International Relations

Affiliated Research areas

• Social aspects of teaching and learning, curriculum studies, education and educational policies
• Early modern, modern, and contemporary history

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

• Contemporary History
• International Relations
• Canary Islands
• Spanish foreign policy
• Globalization and society

Summary

- International Relations of Spain in the contemporary world: This line of research aims to contribute to the study of the international relations of Spain in the contemporary world, with particular reference to the treatment of Spanish foreign policy between the crisis of colonial redistribution of 1898 and the crisis of decolonization of the Sahara in 1975.The main concerns in this area are the analysis of the decision-making processes of Spanish diplomacy, the monitoring of cooperation and integration policies in times of peace, the comparative analysis of Spanish involvement or withdrawal in times of war, the characterization of Spanish behavior in international systems that have existed in the contemporary age and the deepening knowledge of Spanish internationalist historiography during the 20th century.
- Social transformations and globalized processes in the contemporary world. Canary Islands and recent global challenges: This line of research studies the historical origin of the impacts that has occurred in the Canary Islands as a result of globalization processes and their social changes, as well as the analysis of the large trasformations that have taken place and the new quandaries since the second half of the 20th Century. The main centers of interest of the research carried out in this field are, among others, international cooperation and integration processes, the tourist society, the human movements, the cultural changes and the output inequalty gap.
- Research and innovation in social sciences didactics: The objective of this line of research is to connect History and Geography with its didactics, in order to contribute to an improvement of the teaching-learning of the Social Sciences in general, and of History in particular, in the different educational stages.
- Canary Islands in Spain and in the International System: HECHO DIFERENCIAL, GEOPOLÍTICA ATLÁNTICA Y CUESTIONES DE SEGURIDAD: This line of research aims to study the role played by the Canary Islands in Spain, in its foreign and security policy and in the international system, taking as its main vector of analysis its Atlantic insularity. The Canarian differential fact, the strategic situation of the Archipelago in the transatlantic sea and air routes and the specific problems that the continental distance poses to the defense of the islands have permanently gravitated to the concerns of Spanish foreign and security policy, both in times of peace and war, imposing unique profiles on the way in which the Canary Islands have integrated into the world or the way in which world events have affected the Canary Islands. Revealing the constants and variants that have occurred in the development of these processes of integration of the Canary Islands in the national and international politics of the contemporary world is the main objective of this line of research in which the economy, geopolitics, defense and diplomacy are intermingled.
- Foreign interests in the Canary Islands and projection of the Canaries in the Atlantic world: The purpose of this line of research is to deepen the knowledge of the double side of reception of the alien and of projection of the own thing that has occurred in the narrow interconnection between the Canary Islands and the Atlantic world during the contemporary age. It is a matter, therefore, of investigating both the deployment of foreign interests and influences in the islands and the development of projects and achievements carried out by canaries abroad. People, groups, companies, associations, individual initiatives, collective actions and public policies of cooperation are the main focus of a look, both retrospective and current, which seeks to investigate the complexity of economic, social, political and cultural relations that the Canary Islands have established with the British, the Germans and the French, as well as with the North Africans or Latin Americans, thus materializing their permanent link with the Atlantic world.