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Books by Alan Granadino

Routledge Advances in European Politics, 2022

With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially br... more With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s.

In doing so, it revisits the transformation of this ideological family at the end of the Cold War, and before the launch of Third Way politics, and examines the dynamics and power relations at play among European social democratic parties in a context of nascent globalisation. The chronological, methodological and geographical approaches adopted allow for a more nuanced narrative of change for European social democracy than the hitherto dominant centric perspective.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of social democracy, the European Centre-left, political parties, ideologies and more broadly to comparative politics and European politics and history.

North and South. European Social Democracy in the 1970s , 2021

Journal articles by Alan Granadino

Relações Internacionais R:I, 2024

Segle XX. Revista catalana d’història, 2021

En este artículo se analiza cómo el Reino Unido percibió tanto la transición a la democracia como... more En este artículo se analiza cómo el Reino Unido percibió tanto la transición a la democracia como la transición de la política exterior española entre 1975 y 1986, y cómo el contencioso de Gibraltar influyó en la percepción y actitud del gobierno británico ante estos cambios. El artículo está dividido en dos partes. En la primera parte se hace un breve resumen de los intereses del Reino Unido en la democrati-zación española y de su discreta intervención en el proceso de cambio político. La segunda parte está basada en fuentes primarias y se centra en la actitud británica hacia la transición de la política exterior española. La combinación de ambas partes proporciona una perspectiva novedosa, más amplia, sobre la percepción, los intere-ses y la actitud del Reino Unido ante los cambios producidos en España entre los años 70 y 80 del siglo pasado. Lo que sale a la luz es que, sin intervenir en exceso, los británicos vieron cumplidos sus objetivos en la transición tanto interna como externa española. El gobierno británico intentó favorecer la entrada y permanencia de España en la otan mostrándose concesivo con respecto a Gibraltar. Al mismo tiempo, los británicos no dudaron en usar el deseo español de entrar en la ceecomo un factor útil para presionar en favor del fin de las restricciones sobre el Peñón. Precisamente este factor permitió a los británicos desvincular hasta cierto punto el tema de la entrada y permanencia de España en la otan y el contencioso de Gibraltar, sin por ello renunciar a mantener la soberanía sobre el Peñón y a aca-bar con las restricciones vigentes desde 1969.

Papeles. Fundación Felipe González, 2021

Contemporary European History, 2021

ESPACIO, TIEMPO Y FORMA SERIE V HISTORIA CONTEMPORÁNEA. LA REPÚBLICA FEDERAL DE ALEMANIA Y LA EUROPEIZACIÓN DE ESPAÑA (1970-1986), 2020

Ayer. Revista de Historia Contemporánea, 2020

Contemporary European History, 2019

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften – Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, 2018

This paper examines the connection between the political, ideological and discursive development ... more This paper examines the connection between the political, ideological and discursive development of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) and the party’s international relations during the Carnation Revolution (1974-1975). Specifically, it sheds new light on how PS received and assimilated the support, pressures and influences from two ideologically diverse European socialist parties: the French Socialist Party (PSF) and the British Labourists. The main argument is that PS received differing and sometimes contradictory influences from its European counterparts, despite the fact that these counterparts collaborated within the Socialist International. These diverging influences came from PSF on the one hand, and the main European social democrat parties and governments on the other. PS found inspiration in the ideological renewal of PSF at the beginning of the 1970s, especially their strategy of the union of the French left and the concept of autogestion (self-management). However, PS was influenced in the political realm by the European social democrats, which worked towards preventing the possibility of a communist takeover in Portugal. These influences had an impact on the public discourse, political behaviour, and ideology of the PS, which helps to explain the disjunction between the radical discourse and the moderate political practice of the Portuguese Socialists.

Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine. De 1808 au temps présent,, 2017

This article analyzes how the French Socialist Party (PSF) interpreted and reacted to the Carnati... more This article analyzes how the French Socialist Party (PSF) interpreted and reacted to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal between 1974 and 1975. My argument is that there were at least two different interpretations on the Revolution within the PSF, determined by different conceptions of the union of the Left (alliance between Socialists and Communists). A faction led by François Mitterrand saw the Revolution as an opportunity to test the French strategy of the union of the Left by promoting a similar alliance in Portugal, but in 1975, when the Revolution radicalized, Mitterrand’s faction rejected the pact fearing that the Portuguese Communists would seize power. CERES, another faction of the PSF, represented the other interpretative line. They saw the Revolution as an opportunity to establish a new way to Socialism respecting democratic freedoms in which the alliance between Socialists and Communists was crucial at all stages.

Circunstancia, May 2014

This article explores the link between the international relations of the Portuguese Socialist Pa... more This article explores the link between the international relations of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) and the transformation of the idea of Europe in this party between 1973 and 1976. The relations between the Iberian party with the French Socialist Party (PSF) and the British Labour Party (LP) are specifically examined. Through these relations it is analyzed the evolution of the idea of Europe experienced by the PS, which went from proposing a kind of European integration that would make the Community a democratic and social institution, to accepting the integration in the European Economic Community in barely two years. The European parties contributed to this transformation.

Book Chapters by Alan Granadino

Memoria de Europa. La adhesión de España a las comunidades europeas, 2024

Rethinking European Social Democracy and Socialism The History of the Centre-Left in Northern and Southern Europe in the Late 20th Century, 2022

This book examines the political history of European social democracy with a particular emphasis ... more This book examines the political history of European social democracy with a particular emphasis on Northern and Southern European experiences in the period from the end of what is sometimes referred to as the golden age of capitalism in the 1970s, until the end of the Cold War and the early 1990s. 1 Focusing on the European North-South axis as our point of departure not only enables us to historicise a major division of contemporary European politics but also allows us to shed new light on the transformation of socialism and social democracy in the critical juncture that stretches from the international economic crises of the 1970s to the launch of third way politics in the 1990s. We especially wish to underline how political actors and parties have conceptualised social democracy across time and space, bring to the fore previously unexplored transnational networks and delve into the dynamics and power relations at play among European social democratic parties in the context of nascent globalisation. The geographical space of action is not only Europe but also a decolonising and decolonised Global South in the cold war-era context, and more recently the scene for the Arab Spring. The chronological, methodological and geographical scope of the book adds complexity to the conventional narrative of social democratic transformation, which is predominantly based on the British and German parties, and provides new knowledge on the often neglected role of socialist internationalism. 2 Social democratic ideology, political practice and identity were significantly shaped by the entangled histories of the parties of Northern and Southern Europe as well as the transfers and lines of communication between them. In this book, these parties are analysed in the contexts of the Cold War, European integration and globalisation, and their relations are seen against the backdrop of the wider European and transatlantic international networks of the period. By turning the spotlight on such an overlooked spatial dimension and on transnational relations in the history of social democracy, the book aims at filling a historiographical lacuna. As Kristian Steinnes underlines in his orienting contribution, historical research on social democracy has long been tied to the framework of national welfare out of which the movement emerged. While this is understandable and to some extent justified, the long shadow of methodological nationalism has obscured crucial developments and platforms such as the regional, interand transnational arenas of European postwar socialism and social democracy

Rethinking European Social Democracy and Socialism The History of the Centre-Left in Northern and Southern Europe in the Late 20th Century, 2022

Imaginando la guerra fría desde los márgenes. La sociedad española y la OTAN (1975-1986), 2023

Haldor Byrkjeflot, Lars Mjøset, Mads Mordhorst and Klaus Petersen (eds.) The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021), 2021

Routledge Advances in European Politics, 2022

With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially br... more With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s.

In doing so, it revisits the transformation of this ideological family at the end of the Cold War, and before the launch of Third Way politics, and examines the dynamics and power relations at play among European social democratic parties in a context of nascent globalisation. The chronological, methodological and geographical approaches adopted allow for a more nuanced narrative of change for European social democracy than the hitherto dominant centric perspective.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of social democracy, the European Centre-left, political parties, ideologies and more broadly to comparative politics and European politics and history.

North and South. European Social Democracy in the 1970s , 2021

Relações Internacionais R:I, 2024

Segle XX. Revista catalana d’història, 2021

En este artículo se analiza cómo el Reino Unido percibió tanto la transición a la democracia como... more En este artículo se analiza cómo el Reino Unido percibió tanto la transición a la democracia como la transición de la política exterior española entre 1975 y 1986, y cómo el contencioso de Gibraltar influyó en la percepción y actitud del gobierno británico ante estos cambios. El artículo está dividido en dos partes. En la primera parte se hace un breve resumen de los intereses del Reino Unido en la democrati-zación española y de su discreta intervención en el proceso de cambio político. La segunda parte está basada en fuentes primarias y se centra en la actitud británica hacia la transición de la política exterior española. La combinación de ambas partes proporciona una perspectiva novedosa, más amplia, sobre la percepción, los intere-ses y la actitud del Reino Unido ante los cambios producidos en España entre los años 70 y 80 del siglo pasado. Lo que sale a la luz es que, sin intervenir en exceso, los británicos vieron cumplidos sus objetivos en la transición tanto interna como externa española. El gobierno británico intentó favorecer la entrada y permanencia de España en la otan mostrándose concesivo con respecto a Gibraltar. Al mismo tiempo, los británicos no dudaron en usar el deseo español de entrar en la ceecomo un factor útil para presionar en favor del fin de las restricciones sobre el Peñón. Precisamente este factor permitió a los británicos desvincular hasta cierto punto el tema de la entrada y permanencia de España en la otan y el contencioso de Gibraltar, sin por ello renunciar a mantener la soberanía sobre el Peñón y a aca-bar con las restricciones vigentes desde 1969.

Papeles. Fundación Felipe González, 2021

Contemporary European History, 2021

ESPACIO, TIEMPO Y FORMA SERIE V HISTORIA CONTEMPORÁNEA. LA REPÚBLICA FEDERAL DE ALEMANIA Y LA EUROPEIZACIÓN DE ESPAÑA (1970-1986), 2020

Ayer. Revista de Historia Contemporánea, 2020

Contemporary European History, 2019

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften – Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, 2018

This paper examines the connection between the political, ideological and discursive development ... more This paper examines the connection between the political, ideological and discursive development of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) and the party’s international relations during the Carnation Revolution (1974-1975). Specifically, it sheds new light on how PS received and assimilated the support, pressures and influences from two ideologically diverse European socialist parties: the French Socialist Party (PSF) and the British Labourists. The main argument is that PS received differing and sometimes contradictory influences from its European counterparts, despite the fact that these counterparts collaborated within the Socialist International. These diverging influences came from PSF on the one hand, and the main European social democrat parties and governments on the other. PS found inspiration in the ideological renewal of PSF at the beginning of the 1970s, especially their strategy of the union of the French left and the concept of autogestion (self-management). However, PS was influenced in the political realm by the European social democrats, which worked towards preventing the possibility of a communist takeover in Portugal. These influences had an impact on the public discourse, political behaviour, and ideology of the PS, which helps to explain the disjunction between the radical discourse and the moderate political practice of the Portuguese Socialists.

Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine. De 1808 au temps présent,, 2017

This article analyzes how the French Socialist Party (PSF) interpreted and reacted to the Carnati... more This article analyzes how the French Socialist Party (PSF) interpreted and reacted to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal between 1974 and 1975. My argument is that there were at least two different interpretations on the Revolution within the PSF, determined by different conceptions of the union of the Left (alliance between Socialists and Communists). A faction led by François Mitterrand saw the Revolution as an opportunity to test the French strategy of the union of the Left by promoting a similar alliance in Portugal, but in 1975, when the Revolution radicalized, Mitterrand’s faction rejected the pact fearing that the Portuguese Communists would seize power. CERES, another faction of the PSF, represented the other interpretative line. They saw the Revolution as an opportunity to establish a new way to Socialism respecting democratic freedoms in which the alliance between Socialists and Communists was crucial at all stages.

Circunstancia, May 2014

This article explores the link between the international relations of the Portuguese Socialist Pa... more This article explores the link between the international relations of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) and the transformation of the idea of Europe in this party between 1973 and 1976. The relations between the Iberian party with the French Socialist Party (PSF) and the British Labour Party (LP) are specifically examined. Through these relations it is analyzed the evolution of the idea of Europe experienced by the PS, which went from proposing a kind of European integration that would make the Community a democratic and social institution, to accepting the integration in the European Economic Community in barely two years. The European parties contributed to this transformation.

Memoria de Europa. La adhesión de España a las comunidades europeas, 2024

Rethinking European Social Democracy and Socialism The History of the Centre-Left in Northern and Southern Europe in the Late 20th Century, 2022

This book examines the political history of European social democracy with a particular emphasis ... more This book examines the political history of European social democracy with a particular emphasis on Northern and Southern European experiences in the period from the end of what is sometimes referred to as the golden age of capitalism in the 1970s, until the end of the Cold War and the early 1990s. 1 Focusing on the European North-South axis as our point of departure not only enables us to historicise a major division of contemporary European politics but also allows us to shed new light on the transformation of socialism and social democracy in the critical juncture that stretches from the international economic crises of the 1970s to the launch of third way politics in the 1990s. We especially wish to underline how political actors and parties have conceptualised social democracy across time and space, bring to the fore previously unexplored transnational networks and delve into the dynamics and power relations at play among European social democratic parties in the context of nascent globalisation. The geographical space of action is not only Europe but also a decolonising and decolonised Global South in the cold war-era context, and more recently the scene for the Arab Spring. The chronological, methodological and geographical scope of the book adds complexity to the conventional narrative of social democratic transformation, which is predominantly based on the British and German parties, and provides new knowledge on the often neglected role of socialist internationalism. 2 Social democratic ideology, political practice and identity were significantly shaped by the entangled histories of the parties of Northern and Southern Europe as well as the transfers and lines of communication between them. In this book, these parties are analysed in the contexts of the Cold War, European integration and globalisation, and their relations are seen against the backdrop of the wider European and transatlantic international networks of the period. By turning the spotlight on such an overlooked spatial dimension and on transnational relations in the history of social democracy, the book aims at filling a historiographical lacuna. As Kristian Steinnes underlines in his orienting contribution, historical research on social democracy has long been tied to the framework of national welfare out of which the movement emerged. While this is understandable and to some extent justified, the long shadow of methodological nationalism has obscured crucial developments and platforms such as the regional, interand transnational arenas of European postwar socialism and social democracy

Rethinking European Social Democracy and Socialism The History of the Centre-Left in Northern and Southern Europe in the Late 20th Century, 2022

Imaginando la guerra fría desde los márgenes. La sociedad española y la OTAN (1975-1986), 2023

Haldor Byrkjeflot, Lars Mjøset, Mads Mordhorst and Klaus Petersen (eds.) The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021), 2021

The revolutionary process experienced by Portugal between April 1974 and March 1975 aroused a gre... more The revolutionary process experienced by Portugal between April 1974 and March 1975 aroused a great interest all around the world towards a peripheric country which even if it was part of NATO was perceived as one of the leftover of another era. Thus the 26th of April 1974 parties, intellectuals, militants of different groups should start to reflect about the meaning of that revolution which shacked Portugal without blood. Apart from the phenomenon of the political tourism with thousands of young leftist militants who decided to reach the country, this special issue would like to analyze the reaction of different left parties across Europe in order to shed light on deeper changes of European society.

How do political and philosophical theories of democratic representation interrelate with empiric... more How do political and philosophical theories of democratic representation interrelate with empirical social scientific research on democratic practices and institutions? And how do such methodological issues ramify into wider political and social debates at a time when democratic processes are under strain from Cyprus to Cairo and from Budapest to Brussels? This interdisciplinary conference brings together political philosophers and sociologists with historians and political scientists to discuss these questions through a variety of specific lenses and case studies.

Abstract: This paper examines the connection between the political, ideological and discursive de... more Abstract: This paper examines the connection between the political, ideological and discursive development of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) and the party's international relations during the Carnation Revolution (1974–1975). Specifically, it sheds new light on how the PS received and assimilated the support, pressures and influences from two ideologically diverse European socialist parties: the French Socialist Party (PSF) and the British Labour Party. The main argument is that PS received differing and sometimes contradictory influences from its European counterparts, despite the fact that these counterparts collaborated within the Socialist International. These diverging influences came from PSF on the one hand, and the main European social democrat parties and governments on the other. The PS found inspiration in the ideological renewal of the PSF in the early 1970s, especially their strategy of the union of the French left and the concept of autogestion (selfmanagement...