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
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.
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.
Policy pathways for Spain’s energy transition
Natalia Caldés, Gonzalo Escribano, Lara Lázaro, Yolanda Lechón, Christoph Kiefer, Pablo del Río, Richard Thonig & Johan Lilliestam. ARI 63/2019 - 4/6/2019.
It is important to describe current and future Spanish energy policy decisions in order to assess a set of policy pathways for Spain’s energy transition.
From trade diplomacy to economic warfare: the international economic policy of the Trump Administration
Richard Higgott. WP 10/2019 - 31/5/2019.
This paper is an analysis of the discursive practices of the international economic policy of the Administration of President Donald Trump, writ large. Within this conceptual context it offers an empirical case study of the US-China relationship across the spectrum.
Subject and object: Europe and the emerging great-power competition
Luis Simón. Expert Comment 17/2019 - 30/5/2019.
The growing rivalry between the US and China compels Europeans to wake up to some hard facts. One of them is that we live in a world that is increasingly defined by great-power competition, in which the norms and institutions Europeans hold so dear may well take a back seat.
EU-Japan EPA and SPA: more than a partnership, a necessary turning point for both
Ana María Goy Yamamoto. Expert Comment 16/2019 - 29/5/2019.
With just few weeks for the opening of the G20 summit in Osaka on 28-29 June, the stakes that the world economy faces are higher than ever. The current US-China trade turmoil is precisely what Japan and the EU are trying to avoid.
Global norms, gender equality and development cooperation: the need to build on strong local support to change gender relations
Lars Engberg-Pedersen. ARI 58/2019 - 22/5/2019.
Do global norms on gender equality diffuse to all corners of the world? Based on a study of major organisations in international development cooperation this seems questionable.
India in 2024: Narendra Modi once more, but to what end?
Alicia Garcia Herrero & Trinh Nguyen. ARI 57/2019 - 21/5/2019.
This analysis argues that Narendra Modi will have to deliver much bolder reforms in his second term in order to allow India to reach its potential turning its rising working age population into a demographic dividend.
Spain’s influence in the European Parliament: an historical survey and predictions for the new political cycle
Ilke Toygür & Carlos Carnicero Urabayen. ARI 56/2019 - 21/5/2019.
The European parliamentary elections in May 2019 represent a major opportunity for Spain to increase its influence in the EU.
Jihadists who left Spain for Syria as foreign terrorist fighters but have returned
Fernando Reinares. Expert Comment 14/2019 - 20/5/2019.
Around one fifth of the 230 to 235 jihadists who between 2012 and 2018 travelled from Spain to Syria and Iraq as foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) have already returned.
Legal challenges and the practicability of disembarkation centres for illegal migrants outside the EU
Arndt Künnecke. ARI 53/2019 - 16/5/2019.
This paper analyses the legal challenges and practicability of establishing of disembarkation centres for illegal migrants outside EU territory.
The US and the Iran Nuclear Deal: rejoining is wiser than destroying
Elcano Royal Institute. 8/5/2019.
Twenty one Directors and Senior Fellows of leading European think tanks calls on the US to reconsider its approach to the JCPOA and preserve the nuclear deal.
The bundle of sticks: a stronger European defence to face global challenges
Pedro A. Serrano de Haro. WP 03/2019 (printed edition) - 7/5/2019.
This paper describes some of the main initiatives developed by the EU in the field of security and defence during the last three years and how this has led to a stronger engagement with key international partners. It concludes with some reflections regarding the value of the EU as a platform for cooperation to face global challenges and on strategic autonomy.
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