Pablo
León Aguinaga

Institute of History (IH)
Tenured Scientist
Dept. of International and Global History
Euro-Atlantic and Mediterranean Studies Group
Office
2F15
Phone
916022930 / Extensión interna: 441347
Biografía

I am a historian of international relations. I earned a PhD in History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2008) and my postdoctoral stage took place in the United States, at Georgetown University (2009-2013). After combining teaching and research at the Centro Universitario de la Defensa-Academia General Militar (2013-2023), I joined the CSIC as a Tenured Scientist in December 2023.

As a researcher, I have been part of the team of five research projects of the National Plan of Spain. All of them have addressed various dimensions of the global projection of the United States, such as cultural trade and transfers, propaganda and public diplomacy, military assistance or the role of banks, private agents and financial and commercial networks.

I am a member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Association of Contemporary History of Spain.

Publications

Books:

  • Pablo León Aguinaga, Philip W. Bonsal. Diario de un diplomático norteamericano en España, 1944-1947. Estados Unidos ante la dictadura franquista (PUZ, Zaragoza, forthcoming).
  • José A. Montero Jiménez y Pablo León Aguinaga, Estados Unidos y el mundo. La metamorfosis del poder americano (1890-1952) (Síntesis: Madrid, 2019).
  • Pablo León Aguinaga, Sospechos habituales. El cine norteamericano, Estados Unidos y la España franquista, 1939-1960 (CSIC: Madrid, 2010).

 

Selection of articles and book chapters: 

  • Pablo León Aguinaga, "Betting on Franco. El Chase, la World Commerce Corporation y la rehabilitación de la España franquista (1936-1952)", en J.M. Thomàs et alli, Franco, Estados Unidos, Gran Bretaña y España durante la primera Guerra Fría (Comillas: Madrid, 2022): 55-90.
  • Pablo León-Aguinaga and Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla, "The Deployment of U.S. Military Assistance to Spain in the 1950s: Limited Modernisation and Strategic Dependence", Cold War History", 21/1 (2021): 55-70.
  • Pablo León Aguinaga: "Los programas de formación para la Mútua Defensa entre España y Estados Unidos en los años cincuenta", Ayer, 116 (2019): 49-76.
  • Pablo León-Aguinaga: "The Trouble with Propaganda. World War II, Franco, and the Origins of U.S. Postwar Public Diplomacy", International History Review, 37/2 (2015): 342-365.
  • Pablo León Aguinaga: "Los canales de la propaganda norteamericana en España, 1945-1960", Ayer, 75 (2009): 133-158.
Research projects

Ongoing:

  • "Economic diplomacy and transnational networks. Spain and the United States: Trade, International Finance, and Foreign Policy from the Great Depression to the Cold War (1930s-1960s)" (PID2022-136825NB-100)