ABSTRACT
Spain has been almost completely ignored in the few academic works offering a comparative view of the study of International Relations (IR). The country has never enjoyed its own chapter, and its presence, when existing, has been limited to a very broad reference to Spanish works from indirect sources without specific or direct analysis of Spanish works.1 Although the precise reasons for this are not clear, we are aware that to the majority of the worldwide IR community the situation of the discipline in Spain is, paraphrasing Jørgensen, if not the ‘best kept secret’, at least some sort of mystery.
