The analyses are short pieces -of around 3,000 words- on aspects of current international affairs considered to be of relevance to Spain, its foreign policy or its security. In broad terms ARIs are intended to have a predictive bearing on events.

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. 

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.

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.