Technology can help to right technology’s social Wrongs: elements for a new social compact for digitalisation
Andrés Ortega, Miguel Otero-Iglesias, Federico Steinberg & Francisco Andrés. 16/4/2019
Mody’s ‘Euro tragedy’: the counter story
Miguel Otero-Iglesias. WP 13/2018 - 16/9/2019.
This is a long and dissenting review, in nine acts, of Ashoka Mody’s book EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts, based on a political economy approach, generally absent in the book.
Negotiations with North Korea: reviving a stalled process?
Ramón Pacheco Pardo. ARI 93/2019 - 13/9/2019.
This analysis argues that US-North Korea and inter-Korean diplomacy have stalled in the months since the Hanoi summit, yet negotiations will eventually resume as they are the most realistic way to deal with North Korea’s nuclear programme.
Converging western cultural policy debates
Ángel Badillo Matos. Expert Comment 23/2019 - 7/8/2019.
The last decades of the 20th century saw the emergence of culture as a scientific domain, as a public-policy issue and even as a range of professional profiles.
Strategic autonomy in a new era: a Cold-War risk assessment of China’s involvement in the EU’s 5G networks
Mario Esteban & Ugo Armanini. ARI 89/2019 - 6/8/2019.
This paper suggests studying the relations between the EU and China through a Cold War analysis framework.
A strategic look at the position of High Representative and Commission Vice-President
Ignacio Molina & Luis Simón. ARI 88/2019 - 5/8/2019.
What is the potential, and which are the shortcomings and possible ways of strengthening the post of High Representative for Foreign Affairs (and Vice-President of the European Commission) in order to improve the efficiency and standing of the EU as a global player?
In virality we trust! The quest for authenticity in digital diplomacy
Corneliu Bjola. ARI82/2019 - 9/7/2019.
Virality in digital diplomacy is the new black. For Ministers of Foreign Affairs and diplomats, being on social media is no longer only about presence and networking, but about standing out through the virality of their messages.
Emerging security challenges in NATO’s southern neighbourhood
Ian O. Lesser. ARI 79/2019-3/7/2019.
NATO has always had a southern exposure. Today’s strategic environment provides a new context for this traditional question, but also raises fundamental questions of geography, alliance politics and a shared approach to risks.
NATO and the South
Antonio Missiroli. 1/7/2019.
Speech delivered at the opening meeting of the project on the emerging security challenges in NATO’s southern neighbourhood, Brussels, 24 April 2019.
The EU after the elections: a more plural Parliament and Council
Piotr Maciej Kaczyński. ARI 76/2019 - 26/6/2019.
What is the new balance of power in the EU’s institutions following the May 2019 elections?
The main economic challenges confronting Spain’s next government
William Chislett. ARI 74/2019 - 24/6/2019.
Spain’s next government faces major economic challenges and to overcome them it needs to regain the reformist momentum that used to characterise the country before political uncertainty set in.
Made-to-measure Qur’anic quotations: the incomplete verses of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Sergio Altuna Galán. ARI 72/2019 (English version) - 20/6/2019.
More than half the Qur’anic quotations used by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in its propaganda are faithful reproductions of the text but incomplete or truncated.
What next in export controls? Updating criteria and methodologies in non-proliferation and arms control
Gonzalo de Salazar. ARI 69/2019 - 17/6/2019.
The impact of cumulative innovation in technologies requires policymakers and experts to update the current methodology, concepts and tools for non-proliferation, exports control, restrictive measures, arms control and disarmament mechanisms.
From the depths to the surface: conflict drivers in the MENA region
Joost Hiltermann & Maria Rodríguez Schaap. ARI 68/2019 - 12/6/2019.
Failing to acknowledge the 2011 Arab uprisings as a breaking point announcing the need for a regime overhaul in the region, and therefore a long overdue revision of Western policy, would be a mistake with serious adverse consequences.
Sánchez must snatch the Economic Vice-presidency for Spain
Miguel Otero-Iglesias & Ilke Toygür. Expert Comment 20/2019 - 11/6/2019.
Spain deserves a top job in the EU and Pedro Sánchez is determined to get it. For a country that is strongly pro-European and the fifth-largest (fourth, if Britain quits) economy in the Union, it is embarrassingly underrepresented.
EU policy in the face of the Chinese challenge
Mario Esteban & Miguel Otero Iglesias. Expert Comment 18/2019 (English version) - 6/6/2019.
While the change in the European Commission’s narrative on China is highly significant, it is not at all clear how this will translate into the foreign policy of the various member states.
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