1. Samuel S. Huntington, The Third Wave. Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991), pp. 45–6.
2. See C. Powell, ‘International Aspects of Democratization: The Case of Spain’, in Laurence Whitehead, ed., The International Dimensions of Democratization. Europe and the Americas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 285–314.
3. This question is also addressed in Angel Viñas, En las garras del águila. Los pactos con Estados Unidos, de Francisco Franco a Felipe González (1945–1988) (Barcelona: Crítica, 2003), pp. 424–8.
4. Richard Nixon, RN. The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978), p. 248.
5. Henry Kissinger, White House Years (Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1979), pp. 930–2;