The world, and with it the system of international relations, has radically changed in recent years. The reference date for historians is 1989, the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the new axis, globalization, a factor that, combined with the emergence of information technologies and the displacement of the geostrategic importance of the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, has forced most countries to review their foreign policy.
In the case of Spain, these events overlap with a process of profound internal transformations. The new Constitution, the construction of the decentralized State, integration into the European Union, the longest and most sustained period of economic growth in our history, followed by the conversion into a host country for large migratory flows and the southern border of the European Union
The abrupt interruption of the crisis, the longest in our recent history, from which we are only now beginning to emerge, or the impact of terrorism, first internal, and now jihadist, are forcing public powers to rewrite foreign policy. The distinction between previously exclusively domestic issues and foreign policy is rapidly blurring.