Foreign Policy between Portugal and Finland 1917-1994

Abstract

This descriptive paper originally came up as an idea as Finland celebrated its 100th year anniversary on December, 6th 2017. This fact led me to the intent of studying diplomatic ties and foreign policies between these two countries, Portugal and Finland. In order to achieve this objective, a long research involving hundreds of documents from the Portuguese National Archives (Torre do Tombo) and in the Portuguese Foreign Affairs Ministry was performed and after careful consideration and selection only the documents relevant to the issues at hand were included in this paper. Almost all of these documents have never been academically debated as regards to their importance for an interdisciplinary study of this nature. By bringing these documents to light, one will be able to shed a greater understanding on foreign policy scholarship, particularly between these two countries, European diplomatic history from 1917 until 1994, political science and international relations.