Abstract

ROCHA, Miguel de Oliveira Estanqueiro. The Azorean vector in the Portuguese Foreign Policy. Political Observer [online]. 2022, vol.18, pp.53-67.  Epub May 22, 2023. ISSN 2795-4757.  https://doi.org/10.59071/2795-4765.rpcp2022.18/pp.53-67.

The Azores archipelago has influenced Portuguese diplomacy for a long time. In 1871, Andrade de Corvo had already defended, in his book Perigos, that bringing Portugal closer to the United States should be one of the priorities of the Portuguese foreign policy, given the geostrategic position of the Azores. This outlook proved to be accurate in the last century, during the two world wars, with the installation of US military bases on these islands. Since then, the Azores have become indispensable for the Power projection of the American military power in the Atlantic, and has been the main reason for the invitation addressed to Portugal to join NATO. If the end of the Cold War, the appreciation of the Pacific and technological development posed serious challenges to the relevance of the Archipelago in the international system, it is necessary that the enlargement of the Portuguese Continental Platform, alone, given the geostrategic importance of the Islands, again it gives them prevalence within the context of Portuguese foreign policy.

Keywords : Atlantism; Transatlantic Relations; Portuguese Foreign Policy; Portuguese Continental Platform.

        · abstract in Portuguese     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )