The history of International Relations is a young cientific discipline in Spain, recently included in academic studies and misunderstood in many cases by colleagues that confuse it with anecdotical descriptions of diplomatic negotiations, wars and treaties. Nevertheless, in the last five years, the International relations have become a significant discipline in the Spanish historiographic outlook.

Today we can see a new interest, nonexistent in the old study plans, and in the teaching staff to face the scientific aspirations of our students, who are privileged participants, both in international topics from the past and in current matters.

On the other hand, it is also true the increase of books and papers published on this subject of study and investigation. This fact can be confirmed by just consulting any catalogue or database. Publications should get over the descriptive analytic phase; confront the feared epistemologic challenge in social science; open up to other disciplines in order to achieve the desired interdisciplinarity and, in one word, they should tackle new subjects, not considered today.

The investigation group of international relations in history has been approved by the Comunidad of Madrid and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. It is constituted by plenty multidisciplinary investigators, and pretends to cover several investigation areas such as:

Apart from the projects that are being carried out, the Group is working on events and publications. This fullfills our wish to make such a nice, important and present discipline publically known.