Koldo Casla is a Lecturer in Law and the Director of the Human Rights Centre Clinic of the University of Essex, UK. Between 2013 and 2019, he worked as a researcher on social rights in Spain and the UK. Between 2011 and 2013, he was the Chief of Staff of Ararteko, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Parliament of the Basque Country, Spain. Casla holds a PhD in European and International Studies from King’s College London, and is the author of Politics of International Human Rights Law Promotion in Western Europe: Order Versus Justice (Routledge, 2019).

Spain and Its Achilles’ Heels is a well-argued, entertaining stimulus to thought and debate.

• 1. Spanish Politics Beyond Franco and Catalonia2. Achilles’ Heels: The Strong Foundations of a Country’s Weaknesses3. The Territory and the People: How Many Nations?4. Dealing with the Past: Franco’s Legacy5. Who Weaves the Social Safety Net?6. “It’s the Church We Have Lit Upon, Sancho”: Catholicism and Conservative Politics7. Vulnerabilities Need not be WeaknessesTimelineBibliographyIndex

Koldo Casla is a Lecturer in Law and the Director of the Human Rights Centre Clinic of the University of Essex, UK. Between 2013 and 2019, he worked as a researcher on social rights in Spain and the UK. Between 2011 and 2013, he was the Chief of Staff of Ararteko, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Parliament of the Basque Country, Spain. Casla holds a PhD in European and International Studies from King’s College London, and is the author of Politics of International Human Rights Law Promotion in Western Europe: Order Versus Justice (Routledge, 2019).

Spain and Its Achilles’ Heels is a well-argued, entertaining stimulus to thought and debate.

• 1. Spanish Politics Beyond Franco and Catalonia2. Achilles’ Heels: The Strong Foundations of a Country’s Weaknesses3. The Territory and the People: How Many Nations?4. Dealing with the Past: Franco’s Legacy5. Who Weaves the Social Safety Net?6. “It’s the Church We Have Lit Upon, Sancho”: Catholicism and Conservative Politics7. Vulnerabilities Need not be WeaknessesTimelineBibliographyIndex

Koldo Casla is a Lecturer in Law and the Director of the Human Rights Centre Clinic of the University of Essex, UK. Between 2013 and 2019, he worked as a researcher on social rights in Spain and the UK. Between 2011 and 2013, he was the Chief of Staff of Ararteko, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Parliament of the Basque Country, Spain. Casla holds a PhD in European and International Studies from King’s College London, and is the author of Politics of International Human Rights Law Promotion in Western Europe: Order Versus Justice (Routledge, 2019).

Spain and Its Achilles’ Heels is a well-argued, entertaining stimulus to thought and debate.

• 1. Spanish Politics Beyond Franco and Catalonia2. Achilles’ Heels: The Strong Foundations of a Country’s Weaknesses3. The Territory and the People: How Many Nations?4. Dealing with the Past: Franco’s Legacy5. Who Weaves the Social Safety Net?6. “It’s the Church We Have Lit Upon, Sancho”: Catholicism and Conservative Politics7. Vulnerabilities Need not be WeaknessesTimelineBibliographyIndex