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Following its meeting of 28 March 2012, the Board of Trustees of the Elcano Royal Institute has announced the appointment of Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, who served as Director between 2001 and 2005, as the new Chairman of the Institute. Charles Powell, the current Deputy Director responsible for research and analysis, has been promoted to the position of Director.


Emerging Economies and the New Energy Security Agenda (ARI)
ARI 33/2012 - 27/4/2012
Jorge Blázquez and José María Martín-Moreno
The influence of the emerging economies on the energy markets is becoming as important as that of the developed economies. The new energy security agenda to be implemented in the coming years will have to deal with this scenario.

Ecuador’s Energy Policy Mix: Development, Conservation and Nationalism with Chinese Loans (ARI)
ARI 26/2012 - 17/4/2012
Gonzalo Escribano
Ecuador’s energy policy faces a complex variety of political and economic objectives that are difficult to reconcile in a consistent manner. Tensions arise between conservation aims and development imperatives, as well as between resource nationalism and much-needed foreign financing.

Austerity vs Stimulus: The MFF 2014-20’s Role in Stimulating Economic Growth and Job Creation (ARI)
ARI 24/2012 - 12/4/2012
Mario Kölling and Cristina Serrano Leal
The negotiation of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2014-20 is a crucial feature on the EU agenda for the next few months.

Whither Cooperation Policy? (ARI)
ARI 16/2012 - 7/3/2012
Kattya Cascante, Rafael Domínguez, José María Larrú, Iliana Olivié, Javier Sota & Sergio Tezanos Vázquez
The formation of a slimmer government (in terms of the number of Ministries and Secretaryships of State), but with several economic departments appears to confirm the new Spanish Government’s commitment to austerity and economic reform as the way out of the current financial and economic crisis, and to Europe as the centrepiece of its foreign policy. The question now is what role international cooperation policy will play among  these new priorities and what its main objectives will be.

Challenges for the Financial Systems and the Monetary Policy Regimes in Southern Mediterranean Countries After the Crisis (ARI)
ARI 13/2012 - 5/3/2012
Pilar L’Hotellerie-Fallois, Luis Orgaz and Pedro del Río
This ARI reviews some aspects of the financial systems and the design and implementation of monetary policy regimes by central banks in the southern Mediterranean countries in order to assess the scope for changes in these areas. To adequately frame the discussion, the economic performance of the region over the last few years –marked by the global financial crisis and the ‘Arab Spring’– is also reviewed.

The Economic Crisis and the Emerging Powers: Towards a New International Order?
20/2/2012
Robin Niblett
The real challenges to the existing international order will come not from the established or emerging powers, but from global forces that are beyond their control and also from those non-state entities and groups which seek to undermine the process of globalisation that links all states and societies ever closer together. Ensuring the continuation and deepening of international order in the next decades of the 21st century will require governments in both the West and among the emerging powers to improve their domestic resilience to internal and external shocks and, as suggested below, to use deeper regional cooperation as a testing ground for higher levels of international cooperation.

The Current EU and Eurozone Issues
15/2/2012
Lucinda Creighton
Statement by Lucinda Creighton, TD, Minister for European Affairs of Ireland, on Current EU and Eurozone Issues at the round-table discussion "Keys to understand the economic crisis in the EU", held in Madrid on 15 February and organised by the Elcano Royal Institute.

The Economic Crisis and the Emerging Powers: The EU’s Place Within a New International Order
13/2/2012
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
The questions now facing Europe concern our chances of surviving the next decades without the continuing downward economic spiral that many countries are facing. The threat of a ‘second wave’ global economic crisis still looms over our heads. Even without such a second wave, what are the chances of economic recovery for countries whose debt reaches or exceeds the size of their GDP, and whose rates of interest keep rising even as the size of their debts increases and their income keeps going down? What are the chances of survival of the common currency in Europe, and what effect might its eventual failure have on the dreams of ‘the European project’ that seemed so close to realisation just a few years ago?

The Dilemmas of the Rise of China
7/2/2012
Sun Xuefeng
Why are there such contrasting perceptions on China’s rise between the Chinese and the rest of the world? What dilemmas is China beginning to face in the context of these different perceptions about its rise? What ways out of these dilemmas has China been seeking? This essay will explore these thought-provoking questions and present an academic analysis on China’s strategic thinking about its rising dilemmas.

Small Island Developing States and Climate Change: Effects, Responses and Positions beyond Durban (WP)
WP 1/2012 - 23/1/2012
Raúl I. Alfaro-Pelico
This working paper begins with an overview of the climate change impacts on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and then moves on to reviewing policies implemented by SIDS in response to climate threats. The paper mainly uses the framework of the Bali Roadmap and considers areas of priority identified in the Barbados Programme of Action. The role that Spain has played in support of these measures is also underscored. The paper concludes with an assessment of the negotiating position of SIDS in the aftermath of the Durban climate conference. It considers the implications of various country groupings within and outside the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), as they influence the stance of different SIDS in a post-2012 climate regime.

The ‘Stans’ at 20 (WP)
WP 21/2011 - 28/12/2011
Martha Brill Olcott
In late December the five Central Asian countries enter their third decade of independence, effectively achieved when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the USSR and turned the Kremlin over to Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Federation.

Coming Together: How a New Global Partnership on Development Cooperation was Forged at the Busan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (ARI)
ARI 164/2011 - 20/12/2011
Homi Kharas
Adapting development cooperation to the new aid ecosystem requires an understanding of how new players and new circumstances are changing aid effectiveness.

Is the Eurozone crisis changing EU-China relations? (ARI)
ARI 154/2011 - 22/11/2011
Alicia Sorroza
The economic and financial crisis affecting Europe seems to be changing the map of the interests involved in the EU-China relationship.

Energy Alternatives for the Transport Sector: The US and the EU Move in Different Directions (ARI)
ARI 155/2011 - 22/11/2011
Heikki Willstedt Mesa
This ARI looks at the current developments in alternative fuels/technologies for road transport in the framework of rising international prices for conventional fuels and climate change mitigation efforts.

 
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