Spain, Imperialism, and Genealogy of International Studies in the First Third of the 20th Century

Abstract

In recent decades, international studies have been the subject of exciting debates encouraged from critical perspectives, especially from constructivist approaches. Among these debates, the present text intends to pay attention to the revisionism of the narrative around the genealogy of the scientific study of international relations in the first third of the 20th century and the vindication of imperialism in the genesis of international studies. In Spain, the permeability to such historiographical views has not penetrated too much in the review of the genealogy of international studies and even less in the role of imperialism. A question certainly present in the studies on the foreign policy of the period but absent in the analysis of the academic and institutional habitat of international studies in Spain.