Political values in Europe-China relations
Edited by Tim Nicholas Rühlig, Björn Jerdén, Frans-Paul van der Putten, John Seaman, Miguel Otero-Iglesias and Alice Ekman. European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC), December 2018.
Innovating Global Governance: Bottom-up, the inductive approach
Andrés Ortega, Aitor Pérez and Ángel Saz-Carranza. T20 - July 2018
Spain and the prospect of Brexit
Salvador Llaudes, Ignacio Molina, Miguel Otero Iglesias and Federico Steinberg. Elcano Policy Paper 3/2018 - 15/6/2018.
The political expansion of evangelical churches in Latin America
Carlos Malamud. ARI 131/2018 (English version) - 12/12/2018.
The presence of evangelical churches in the political life of various Latin American countries has increased significantly in recent years.
Spain no longer bucks the trend on far-right parties
William Chislett. Expert Comment 54/2018 - 11/12/2018.
The recent snap election in Andalucía saw the far-right party Vox storm into the regional parliament with 12 of the 109 seats, and so end Spain’s exceptionalism.
Sri Lanka and great-power competition in the Indo-Pacific: a Belt and Road failure?
Mario Esteban. ARI 129/2018 - 28/11/2018.
This paper looks at the situation in Sri Lanka and the impact of the new Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. It further analyses the effects of great-power competition on Sri Lanka and the other countries in the Indo-Pacific region.
Algerian presidential elections and the energy reform agenda
Gonzalo Escribano. ARI 128/2018 (English version) - 26/11/2018.
A new hydrocarbon law seems imminent in Algeria and progress has been made in improving the country's relations with international oil and gas companies. However, it appears that the introduction of substantive reforms will have to wait for the 2019 presidential elections.
Italy’s budget battle with the European Commission
Federico Steinberg. Expert Comment 52/2018 - 14/11/2018.
The European Commission has rejected Italy’s proposed draft budget because of how seriously it breached prior fiscal commitments, including an increase in the deficit to 2.4% of GDP, three times higher than originally agreed.
What foreign policy now for Brazil?
Carlos Malamud. ARI 120/2018 - 12/11/2018.
On 1 January 2019 Jair Bolsonaro will become the next President of Brazil. What could be the key elements of the new Administration’s foreign policy?
Natural partners? Europe, Japan and security in the Indo-Pacific
Luis Simón & Ulrich Speck (Eds.). Policy Paper 4/2018 - 12/11/2018.
There is momentum for increased security cooperation between Europe and Japan. Europeans and Japanese are ‘natural partners’ who consider a liberal and rules-based international order to be a core interest.
Salvini’s Italy between Greek tragedy and Portuguese fado
Miguel Otero-Iglesias. Expert Comment 48/2018 - 19/10/2018 .
Salvini has struck a heroic pose because he knows it attracts votes in Italy. Conversely, his pugnaciousness makes him many enemies in Brussels and elsewhere. It might not be a bad idea to implement some of the structural improvements recommended by the European Commission.
Forty years of democratic Spain: Political, economic, foreign policy and social change, 1978-2018
William Chislett. WP 1/2018 (printed version) - 17/10/2018.
Over the past 40 years, Spain has achieved conditions that are similar –in some cases better– than in the rest of Western European nations, disproving the theory, still beloved in some quarters, of the country’s ‘exceptional nature’ or ‘anomaly’.
How should the EU confront President Trump?
Federico Steinberg. ARI 115/2018 (English version) - 15/10/2018.
To what extent is the Trump Presidency just an anomaly or a symptom of something more profound? How should the EU react?
Diplomacy in the Digital Age
Corneliu Bjola. ARI 113/2018 - 11/10/2018.
Diplomacy in the Digital Age depends on how diplomats understand and transform online influence into tangible offline diplomatic influence.
The European Council and migration: any progress?
Carmen González Enríquez. ARI 112/2018 (English version) - 9/10/2018.
The European Council has come up with a vague agreement, but it has avoided a political crisis and at the same time made more visible the seriousness of the migration challenge to the EU.
EU scenarios for 2027
Antonio Estella. WP 19/2018 - 8/10/2018.
This paper is written at a very critical time for the EU. However, in these distressed times for the European project, it seems more appropriate than ever to discuss in public what its future will be.
The Brazilian elections
Esther Solano Gallego. ARI 111/2018 - 4/10/2018.
The upcoming Brazilian elections are unfolding in an atmosphere of intense political and economic crisis, and it is not yet clear whether the second round will once again shape up as the classic confrontation between the Workers’ Party (PT) and the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB).
Juncker and Trump end the trade war and revive a watered-down version of TTIP
Federico Steinberg. Expert Comment 46/2018 (English version) - 2/10/2018.
It is good news that Trump treated Juncker as an equal and has understood that the EU is the key trade partner of the US.
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