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The ‘Stans’ at 20 (WP) WP 21/2011 - 28/12/2011 Martha Brill Olcott In late December the five Central Asian countries enter their third decade of independence, effectively achieved when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the USSR and turned the Kremlin over to Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Federation.
Spain’s Multinationals: the Dynamic Part of an Ailing Economy (WP) WP 17/2011 - 15/9/2011 William Chislett The investments abroad of a significant number of Spanish companies are enabling them to weather the depressed domestic economy relatively well, while exports have become the engine of economic growth.
EU-Turkey Accession Negotiations: the State of Play and the Role of the New Turkish Foreign Policy (WP) WP 8/2011 - 4/4/2011 Mahir Ilgaz and İlke Toygür Turkey’s EU accession negotiations completed their fifth year on 3 October 2010. However, despite annual declarations on the Turkish side that each new year would be ‘the year of the EU’, negotiations seem to be progressing very slowly and the prospects for their timely completion look dim.
The G-20 Economies and the Financial Crisis: Concerns over Governance (WP) WP 41/2010 (Translated from Spanish) - 15/3/2011 Luis A. Riveros The global financial crisis that erupted in late 2007 in the US, and which stemmed from policies implemented over the past three decades, has highlighted a severe problem of financial governance within countries and in the international context itself.
The Global Crisis and its Implications for Latin America (WP) WP 40/2010 (Translated from Spanish) - 15/3/2011 Ramiro Albrieu and José María Fanelli Latin America has not been immune to the turmoil unleashed in the wake of Lehman Brothers’ demise. This working paper looks at the size and characteristics of the external shocks endured by the region, its vulnerability to them and the political responses they have elicited.
The Euro vs Dollar Debate: A Review (WP) WP 5/2001 - 7/2/2011 Miguel Otero-Iglesias This Working Paper provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary literature review on the euro vs dollar debate. In the first part it presents the euro-optimist and the euro-sceptical hypotheses on the euro’s challenge to the dollar within Economic literature and how current data show how the euro has underperformed vis-à-vis euro-optimistic expectations. In the second part, the paper explains the euro’s political flaws.The last part of the paper focuses on these social dimensions.
France’s National Security Strategy (WP) WP 3/2011 - 17/1/2011 Fabio Liberti and Camille Blain France is one of the EU’s member states with a most highly-developed national strategic culture. However, the 2008 White Paper on Defence and National Security represents a significant leap in the evolution of the French strategic thinking and policies. It establishes the concept of national security, that transcends the traditional realms of defence and internal security and moves towards the overarching concept of national security.
The Cost for the EU of ‘Losing’ Turkey (WP) WP 2/2011 - 12/1/2011 William Chislett Turkey’s EU accession negotiations, proceeding at a snail’s pace since 2005, run the risk of coming to a complete halt. This would have many costs for Europe.
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