Portuguese Foreign Policy
No. 56 AUGUST 2015
There has been a consensus around the essentials of Portuguese foreign policy since the beginning of the democratic period.. However, this consensus was built around a reality of power distribution in Europe that was profoundly changed in 1989/1990 with the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification and, subsequently, with Germany’s attempt at hegemony, which came to the fore during the Euro crisis of 2010/2011. The main objective of this essay is to generate debate about Portuguese foreign policy and to think about the best international inclusion strategy for the country nowadays. The proposal advocated here is a return to the classic formula of the double alliance: with the largest European power, Germany, and the largest maritime and Atlantic power, the United States. This double alliance must have the Portuguese language as a compensation mechanism, especially if understood in a new conception of a united Atlantic, bringing two Portuguese-speaking rising powers together: Angola and Brazil.
There has been a consensus around the essentials of Portuguese foreign policy since the beginning of the democratic period.. However, this consensus was built around a reality of power distribution in Europe that was profoundly changed in 1989/1990 with the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification and, subsequently, with Germany’s attempt at hegemony, which came to the fore during the Euro crisis of 2010/2011. The main objective of this essay is to generate debate about Portuguese foreign policy and to think about the best international inclusion strategy for the country nowadays. The proposal advocated here is a return to the classic formula of the double alliance: with the largest European power, Germany, and the largest maritime and Atlantic power, the United States. This double alliance must have the Portuguese language as a compensation mechanism, especially if understood in a new conception of a united Atlantic, bringing two Portuguese-speaking rising powers together: Angola and Brazil.
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7 × 130 × 200 mm
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978-989-8819-13-0
Book available only in Portuguese
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