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Fonseca, A. Monica (2019). “Crossing the South Atlantic: The role of Portuguese democratization in the Socialist International’s initiatives towards Latin America in the 1970’s”. Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference.

A. M. Fonseca,  "“Crossing the South Atlantic: The role of Portuguese democratization in the Socialist International’s initiatives towards Latin America in the 1970’s”", in Transatlantic Studies Association Annu. Conf., Lancaster, 2019

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AB  - Portugal’s democratization process was highly affected by the international actors and the specific context. Due to the characteristics of the transition, there was a predominance of non-state international actors that supported the different political tendencies that emerged within Portuguese society after the coup of April 1974. The West German Social-Democratic Party (SPD), along with other Western European social-democratic parties, played a fundamental role in supporting Mario Soares’ Portuguese Socialist Party and its option for the establishment of a Western European-style, pluralist democracy in Portugal, both before and after the Carnations’ Revolution. The individual activities of these parties must always be framed in the wider umbrella that was the Socialist International, of which, after 1976, Willy Brandt, Chairman of the SPD, became president. 
	In this paper, I will analyze the connections between the international support given by the SPD and the Socialist International to the Portuguese Socialists before and after the transition to democracy and explore how these connections eventually influenced and helped the SI’s offensive towards the southern hemisphere, particularly towards Latin America. Many of the SPD leaders considered that it was north European social-democratic parties’ responsibility to assist and support the recently created and legalized parties in Southern Europe, whose countries had just transitioned from authoritarian regimes. Immediately after its country’s successful democratization, Soares was chosen as a SI Vice-President, being responsible for the International’s contacts in Latin America. This was a clear reflection of the global view of the SI president, Brandt, and the other (northern European) leaders, Olof Palme and Bruno Kreisky. These three men considered that it was fundamental for the Social Democracy to have a greater role in world affairs, presenting itself as an alternative in the bipolar divide. The paper is based on multi archival research, namely in the Portuguese, German and the Socialist International archives. 
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