Transitional foreign policy: actors, institutions and norms
Authors: Diogo Moreira
Page: 123-144
DOI: 10.1386/pjss.4.3.123_1
Abstract
Foreign policy analysis (FPA) has traditionally focused its attention in consolidated political regimes, either democratic or autocratic, thus leaving the study of transitional regimes almost exclusively to comparative politics. This study attempts to counter that trend by demonstrating that a conceptual study of foreign policy decision-making during regime transitions is possible if part of the elements of some of the tools of analysis utilized by FPA are altered, specifically the decision units framework’ (Hermann and Hermann 1989). We plan on utilizing the recent innovations in political sociology on the nature of the state (Mann 1993) and its differentiation from the regime (Mazzuca 2003), the state crisis methodology applied recently to popular mobilization under democratic transitions (Duran 2001), as well as the traditional theoretical models of regime transition (e.g. Linz and Stepan 1996; Schmitter, O’Donnell and Whitehead 1986), in helping to study the formulation and implementation of foreign policy decisions during the Portuguese regime transition (1974-76) that started the third wave of democratization.
Schools without walls during the Portuguese Revolution: the Student Civic Service (197477)
Authors: Luísa Tiago de Oliveira
Page: 145-168
DOI: 10.1386/pjss.4.3.145/1
Abstract
This article deals with the Student Civic Service (SCS) of 197477, and in particular the Labour and Culture Plan, which was concerned with the collection of ethnographic data and with intervention within the population as it existed in 1975. The SCS was affected by a combination of political conflicts and social dynamics that demanded a new form of political language and social experiences. It facilitated a new appreciation, new discoveries and new challenges between the students and the populations within which they served in terms of politics, customs, generic identities, religion, food, housing and hygiene. Some of the interventions were of a nature that could be characterized by the assumption of identities that were, to a large extent, marked by collective hope. This article pays attention to the history/memory binomial as well as to the relevance of the social movements during the revolutionary period.
Angola’s whites: political behaviour and national identity
Authors: Fernando Tavares Pimenta
Page: 169-193
DOI: 10.1386/pjss.4.3.169_1
Abstract
This is a study of the political behaviour and of the national identity of the white settler community in Angola. Analysis of the political behaviour of Angola’s white settlers, the second-largest settler community in Africa in 1970, indicates that they not only developed a form of local economic nationalism, but that they actually created a kind of African identity that added a more political aspect to this nationalism. Settlers organized themselves into political movements and parties that called for Angola’s political autonomy and even its independence. However, settler nationalism was repressed by the Portuguese government and rejected by the black nationalist movements. White settlers were unable to impose their political views, and as a result of Angola’s violent independence process, a large proportion of them left the country in 1975.
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