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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.
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Emerging Economies and the New Energy Security Agenda (ARI)
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ARI 33/2012 - 27/4/2012
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Jorge Blázquez and José María Martín-Moreno
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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.
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Whither Cooperation Policy? (ARI)
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ARI 16/2012 - 7/3/2012
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Kattya Cascante, Rafael Domínguez, José María Larrú, Iliana Olivié, Javier Sota & Sergio Tezanos Vázquez
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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.
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The Economic Crisis and the Emerging Powers: Towards a New International Order?
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20/2/2012
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Robin Niblett
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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.
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The Current EU and Eurozone Issues
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15/2/2012
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Lucinda Creighton
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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.
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The Economic Crisis and the Emerging Powers: The EU’s Place Within a New International Order
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13/2/2012
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Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
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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?
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The Dilemmas of the Rise of China
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7/2/2012
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Sun Xuefeng
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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.
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Small Island Developing States and Climate Change: Effects, Responses and Positions beyond Durban (WP)
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WP 1/2012 - 23/1/2012
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Raúl I. Alfaro-Pelico
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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.
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The ‘Stans’ at 20 (WP)
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WP 21/2011 - 28/12/2011
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Martha Brill Olcott
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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.
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