Word: karle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wherever he trots on the globe, Juan Carlos preaches the universal gospel he learned in Spain's transition. "If there's an international figure that stands for negotiation, peaceful resolution, and statecraft, it is him," comments Karl...
...that moment, the only institution that could stop the military was the king," says Luis Riera, a Spanish business professor, currently a visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs. "So he did," Karl says his moves "disarmed and delegitimized [the Right] in the military," demonstrating a "strong commitment to the new rules of the game...
...could depend on a fairy tale ending, all would be well. But Karl points out that "nothing is firm or solid in Spain," and anti-monarchists note that his grandfather ruled for 29 years before fleeing to Rome...
Since 1981, the association between the monarchy and continued stability has grown, fueled by the rise in Juan Carlos's personal popularity. "To have a traditional institution that people can look at as a connection of the past to this changing present is important," says Karl. She notes that of other nations that had not made the transition to democracy smoothly. "Nobody else has a king; nobody else can play that role...
This education has been the key to the monarch's leverage on the naval forces, observers say. "It matters that this is a military man," says Karl. "He has been able to deal with the right-wing tendencies of the military without degrading the military as an institution." The King sure said of his officers. "I knew them. I used to take showers with them...