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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...
...available only to El Caudillo's chosen successor, Juan Carlos moved cautiously by approaching the moderates of Spain. He slowly replaced Franco's highest appointees with what he called "the civilized right." He invited leaders of the outlawed Communist and Socialist parties to dinner. Assistant Professor of Government Terry Karl, a specialist in that process, says. "It's rare to find a figure that commands that kind of respect who will throw his weight behind the democratic transition...
...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...
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...
...Detents, Mr. Democracy, and Mr. Peaceful Resolution of Conflict," Karl commented yesterday referring to Carlos's restoration of Spanish-Soviet relations for the first time since the Spanish Civil War and his advocacy of non-intervention into Latin American affairs...