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Highlights A tribute to Jaime Otero Roth Real Instituto Elcano Jaime Otero Roth -our colleague, Senior Analyst for Spanish Language and Culture since 2004 and first Executive Secretary of the Iberoamerican Network of International Studies (RIBEI)- died on January 30 in Madrid at the age of 51. That same day we received the first copies of his latest book, El discreto encanto de la cultura. Nuevos escenarios para la proyección exterior de la cultura: un enfoque práctico, which he had coordinated with Elvira Marco and which the Institute has published jointly with Ariel. As a tribute to Jaime and in recognition of his talent and outstanding work, we invite our readers to revisit the research area he headed and the contribution he made to promoting Spain's language and culture as a tool for its external action.
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.
Relations between national parliaments and the European Parliament: opportunities and challenges (ARI) ARI 153/2011 - 22/11/2011 Daniel Ruiz de Garibay This paper provides an insight into how interparliamentary cooperation between national parliaments and the EP is evolving, what forms it is taking and what its main advantages and flaws are.
Global Terrorism and Nuclear Proliferation after 9/11 (ARI) ARI 151/2011 - 21/11/2011 Robert S. Litwak Arguably, the more likely route by which terrorists might gain access to nuclear or other WMD capabilities is not through the possible collaboration between ‘rogue states’ and terrorist groups but through theft from improperly-secured sites in countries like Pakistan.
Australian Jihad: Radicalisation and Counter-Terrorism (ARI) ARI 140/2011 - 18/10/2011 Sam Mullins ‘Home-grown’ Islamist terrorism has developed in Australia in a comparable pattern to other Western countries. The Australian counter-terrorism strategy is similar to that in the UK, including the recent introduction of community-based preventive initiatives.
Evaluation of the First Hungarian EU Council Presidency (ARI) ARI 134/2011 - 27/9/2011 Krisztina Vida The Hungarian EU Presidency in the first half of 2011 came in a context of deep crisis in the euro area, uncertainty and enlargement fatigue. How did it perform?
Tour d’ Horizon 27/6/2011 HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal Speech by HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal of Saudi Arabia at the Elcano Royal Institute (Madrid) on 26 September 2011.
Analysing Physical and Socio-economic Risk in the Adaption of Agriculture to Climate Change (ARI) ARI 133/2011 - 22/9/2011 Ana Iglesias, Sonia Quiroga and Agustín Diz Adapting agriculture to climate change requires an understanding of both natural impacts and the underlying vulnerability of socio-economic systems.
A New Reading of the Crisis and the Dilemmas of Economic Policy (ARI) ARI 124/2011 (Translated from Spanish) Federico Steinberg The financial shock waves of August 2011 call for a review of the diagnosis of the crisis and an evaluation of the limited economic policy alternatives at the disposal of the US and the euro zone.
Spain’s Multinationals: the Dynamic Part of an Ailing Economy (WP) WP 17/2011 - 15/9/2011 William Chislett The investments abroad of a significant number of Spanish companies are enabling them to weather the depressed domestic economy relatively well, while exports have become the engine of economic growth.