Abstract

SANCHEZ ANDRES, Agustín. Between National Interest and International Cooperation. Mexico and Spain in the League of Nations during the Reformist Biennium, 1931-1933. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2022, n.spe2, pp.47-76.  Epub June 26, 2023. ISSN 0185-2620.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2022.1e.77714.

This article is a comparative analysis of the Mexican and Spanish policies in the League of Nations between 1931 and 1933. Through sometimes coinciding and sometimes divergent strategies, both countries tried to reinforce in Geneva the fragile pillars that supported the building of collective security as it began to crumble. The comparative analysis of the Mexican Maximato and the Spanish Bienio Reformista policies in face of the invasion of Manchuria, the Conference on Disarmament and the Geneva mediation in the inter-American conflicts, helps us to understand the defensive positions of both regimes regarding the then changing international scenario. It also allows us to identify both States foreign policies coincidences and divergences, as well as to show the mutual interest of two ideologically akin political regimes in setting up stable international cooperation.

Keywords : Mexico; Spain; League of Nations; Manchuria; Conference on Disarmament; Leticia; Chaco War.

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