Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which
characterised Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco
regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent
commitment to social justice. David Brydan reveals the vital role
which the idea of the Francoist 'social state' also played in the
regime's ongoing search for international legitimacy. Using
research from eighteen archives across six countries, Brydan shows
how social experts, particularly those working in the fields of
public health, medicine, and social insurance, were at the
forefront of efforts to promote the regime abroad. By working with
international organisations in Geneva, Paris, and New York and with
transnational networks of colleagues across Europe, Africa, and
Latin America, they sought to sell the idea of Franco's Spain as a
respectable, modern, and socially-just state. They were
internationalists, but they were Franco's internationalists. In
telling this story, the study disrupts our understanding of the
modern history of internationalism. Exploring what it meant for
Francoist experts to think and act internationally, it challenges
dominant accounts of internationalism as a liberal, progressive
movement by foregrounding the history of fascist, nationalist,
imperialist, and religious forms of international cooperation. It
also brings into focus the overlooked continuities between
international structures and projects before and after 1945. The
case of Spain reveals the contested and heterogeneous nature of
mid-twentieth century internationalism, characterised by the
competition between overlapping global, regional, and imperial
projects.
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