The Elcano Royal Institute's Working Papers are longer documents of an academic nature -usually between 12,000 and 15,000 words long, with footnotes and bibliographies- on current international affairs of relevance to Spain or on different aspects of Spain's foreign policy and security.

The 19th of July: divided or united in cyberspace? From the EU and NATO to Five Eyes and Japan

Stefan Soesanto. WP 11/2021 - 04/10/2021.

Based on the public information available as of the time of writing, this Working Paper aims to disentangle and explain what occurred on 19 July. To the author’s knowledge this is the first ever case study to take a deep look into a coordinate attribution campaign.

Public health in Korea and Europe: contemporary challenges and possibilities for cooperation

Mario Esteban & Ramón Pacheco-Pardo (Eds). Working Paper 02/2021 (printed version) - 29/7/2021.

This working paper covers the cooperation in public health between the EU member states and Korea. This was an underdeveloped area of cooperation before COVID-19 but intensified after the outbreak of the pandemic in Europe as the authorities looked East for partners with an effective record in managing the pandemic.

Reforming the governance of the Economic and Monetary Union: the issues

Carlos Martínez Mongay with the collaboration of Enrique Feás, Miguel Otero Iglesias & Federico Steinberg. WP 10/2021 (English version) - 16/6/2021.

This paper sets out a series of questions for the EMU reform debate, including the Banking Union, the Capital Markets Union, the European Semester and political union (PU). The aim is to stimulate the debate among Spanish experts to prepare agreed proposals for reforming the economic governance of the EU, especially the SGP.

H2 Med: hydrogen’s geo-economic and geopolitical drivers and barriers in the Mediterranean

Gonzalo Escribano. Elcano Policy Paper 2/2021 (English version) - 11/6/2021.

This policy paper is a preliminary assessment of the geo-economic and geopolitical drivers and barriers for the development of a hydrogen market that integrates both European and Mediterranean neighbours’ renewable resources.

Digitalisation with decarbonisation

Gregorio Martín Quetglas & Andrés Ortega. 26/5/2021.

This Working Paper analyses the overall contribution of information and communications technology (ICT) to the fight against climate change, as well as its direct and indirect impact on the emissions of CO₂ and other greenhouse gases and the public-private policies being implemented to ensure the two transitions complement each other.