This article challenges long-standing assumptions about Spain’s status in the international system during the first several years of the Cold War, from 1945 to 1950. These assumptions constitute the “isolation paradigm,” which emphasizes Spain’s exclusion from the United Nations (UN), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the various Councils of Foreign Ministers, and other major international institutions, supposedly keeping the country internationally isolated and unable to pursue its interests during the early Cold War. The article debunks the “isolation paradigm” and supplants it with “informal integration.” The United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain embarked on numerous initiatives with Spain despite isolationist rhetoric and policy, and the Spanish authorities sought to counter formal exclusion from international institutions and to engage in other types of diplomatic, economic, and cultural interaction. From this perspective, it becomes clear that 1946—not 1947 or 1950, as other scholars have argued—marked a decisive year for Spain’s efforts in these areas.

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西班牙和冷战初期

本文对冷战最初几年（1945 年至 1950 年）期间关于西班牙在国际体系中的地位的长期假设提出挑战。这些假设构成了“孤立范式”，强调西班牙被联合国（UN）排除在外，北大西洋公约组织（NATO）、各外交部长理事会和其他主要国际机构，据称使该国在国际上处于孤立状态，无法在冷战初期追求其利益。这篇文章揭穿了“孤立范式”，并用“非正式整合”取代了它。尽管有孤立主义的言论和政策，美国、苏联和英国仍与西班牙开展了多项举措，西班牙当局试图抵制国际机构的正式排斥，并参与其他类型的外交、经济和文化互动。从这个角度来看，很明显，1946 年——而不是其他学者所认为的 1947 年或 1950 年——标志着西班牙在这些领域的努力具有决定性意义的一年。