Enríquez Perea, A. (2025).

El deber no admite ser neutral. La diplomacia mexicana en el destino de la República Española. 1936–1942. Ediciones del Lirio; BUAP.

Abstract

The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) occupies a central place in the development of the international system during the twentieth century, not only because of its consequences for Spain, but also because it constituted one of the principal political and diplomatic laboratories of the interwar period. It brought together debates over sovereignty, foreign intervention, recognition of governments, collective security, and international responsibility that anticipated many of the tensions that would ultimately lead to the Second World War.

From this perspective, El deber no admite ser neutral. La diplomacia mexicana en el destino de la República Española. 1936–1942 (Duty Does Not Allow for Neutrality: Mexican Diplomacy and the Fate of the Spanish Republic, 1936–1942), by Dr. Alberto Enríquez Perea, a professor at the Center for Political Studies of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), represents a valuable contribution both to diplomatic historiography, particularly that of Mexico, and to the study of International Relations. The book reconstructs Mexico’s response to one of the most significant challenges to the international order of the period. In this regard, it is a work that prompts reflection on several issues, particularly across three dimensions: the diplomatic response, the humanitarian dimension of refuge and exile, and its connection to the contemporary international context.