1895-1898: Inglaterra y la busqueda de un compromiso internacional para frenar la intervencion norteamericana en Cuba

Abstract

«1895-1898: England and the Search for an International Agreement to Prevent American Intervention in Cuba»: Using specialized bibliography and ample archival sources, mainly British, this article analyzes the new international situation during the last decade of the nineteenth century, the general guidelines of Spanish foreign policy, and Britain's international position as well as her need of strengthen the security of Gibraltar when the Franco-Russian alliance came. In this point, the Spanish decision not to renew the Mediterranean Agreements, the outbreak of the Cuban insurrection, the initial steps leading to American intervention, and Spain's attempt to persuade the great European powers to intervene in order to check the Washington government, will cause the British embassador in Madrid to try to move Lord Salisbury's government in Spain's favour. Although he was not successful, Wolff's intense activity and his abundant correspondence with the Foreign Office show not only the European powers' diplomacy in Madrid, but also the perspectives, gaols and initiatives of Spanish foreign policy in the years preceding the «Disaster».