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Relations between Spain and Algeria from 1962 to the present day have been influenced by different factors that have led to a strange neighbourly relationship, marked by the duality between conflict and cooperation. In this paper we will try to unpack these factors and highlight their influence and possibilities for conflict and cooperation. Although some are now part of the past, many others (gas, Morocco, Western Sahara, and the European Union) remain in the past and define Spanish-Algerian bilateralism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the privatization and industrial reconversion programs carried out by the governments of Felipe González (1982-1996) and José María Aznar (1996-2004). Our interpretation is that the ideological turn that the postulates of neoliberalism supposed from the 1980s translated into systematic privatization policies. It will try to show that, with the privatizations, it was not an attempt to reconvert the public sector to make it more efficient and profitable. Also, that in this privatization process the new and powerful telecommunications, energy and banking companies began a process of linking to power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an evaluation of the Spanish journals specialized in History, collected at the CSIC's database ISOC. The analysis applies a new categorization system, still in an experimental stage, designed as a byproduct of this bibliographic resource. In the ranking obtained the most outstanding publications are Historia Actual Online, Imago Temporis, Revista de Historia Actual and Revista de Historia Económica. From the results of this categorization, the paper analyzes the prevailing editorial features, the distribution of authorship, its thematic profile and the different variables that influence on the quality of the journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking into account an interdisciplinary methodology that stablish the connection between the past situation and the current situation, this paper analyse the relationship between the Holy See and the Spanish State during the Second Republic, the Franco dictatorship and democracy. In this way, we will see advances and setbacks in the separation of church and state, as well as the problems that arise in this relationship today. All this situation is due to a bad process of the democratic memory in Spain during the Transition, which produces constitutional inconsistencies and democratic anomalies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The contention of the present paper is to investigate and to interrogate the process of contacts and negotiations of the two imperial powers, mainly France and Spain, which has ended in the signature of ratified agreements and treaties on the Riffian question. This process has indeed contributed to smooth out the hostility between France and Spain on one hand and pave the way for common military projects that aim at putting an end to the Riffian problem. Against the upsurge of the Riffian resistance, the strong men of the protectorate - General Primo de Rivera and Marshal Pétandecided to solidify the effective collaboration between the two armies in the battlefields to mutually defeat the Riffian movement. Thus, the French intervention in the Spanish-Riffian conflict in 1925 marked a turning point and profound force disequilibrium in the struggle of the Riffian against the Spanish presence in North of Morocco. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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