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Globalization, development and governance

Globalisation in transition, from interdependence to geopolitical rivalry: analysing the results of the 2025 edition of the Elcano Global Presence Index

By Manuel Gracia Santos, Blanca González // Posted on 22 May 2025

Pope Leo IV, seen from behind and dressed in the papal cassock, walked away after delivering his first Regina Caeli prayer from a balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square. On the left, part of the building clad in light travertine can be seen, while a column of the same stone, framed by red curtains, stands behind him. Pope

Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood

The Pope, the Holy See and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Xavier Abu Eid // Posted on 14 May 2025

Overhead satellite view of Aden (Yemen), showing a top-down perspective of the city’s natural harbour. Houthi

International Security

The Houthi conundrum

By Andrew Hammond // Posted on 06 May 2025

European Union flags at the Berlaymont building in Brussels.

Future of Europe

The EU in a new geopolitical world order

By Kathleen R. McNamara // Posted on 28 Apr 2025

Microphone and nameplate for the United States at a United Nations Security Council meeting room, with the Algeria nameplate visible beside it. The room features modern lighting, a central horseshoe-shaped table, red and blue seating, and a large mural on the wall. Trump

China, the US and the new world order

Power politics and the fear factor: Trump redefines the international order

By Ernesto Talvi, Gabriel Leiva García // Posted on 21 Apr 2025

A dark digital panel at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange displays data from the German DAX stock index, with large, bright numbers showing share prices. tariff

Trump’s tariff rage and its unforeseen dimensions on the global financial markets

By Ernesto Talvi, Tomás Sanguinetti // Posted on 16 Apr 2025

Abstract 3D image of a world map, composed of pixelated blocks in bluish and greyish tones. China

China, the US and the new world order

Shattered hegemony: the rivalry between the US and China in the new era of the politics of force

By José Juan Ruiz // Posted on 16 Apr 2025

Daytime view of the floating LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel (Germany), a port featuring ships, cranes, an industrial plant, wind turbines, and an electrical substation, where the sea meets vast green areas. Russia

Climate and energy

The end of the war in Ukraine and the future of the EU-Russia energy relation

By Ignacio Urbasos Arbeloa // Posted on 10 Apr 2025

Donald Trump announces “reciprocal” tariffs alongside US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick (right), speaking from a podium with a microphone before an audience gathered for the Make America Wealthy Again event — also referred to as “Liberation Day” — in the White House Rose Garden on 2 April 2025. In his left hand, Trump holds up a board listing countries and their corresponding tariffs. tariff

Technology and economics

Trump’s global tariff shock

By Enrique Feás, Miguel Otero Iglesias, Federico Steinberg // Posted on 08 Apr 2025

It is expected that the PKK’s farewell to arms and final disbandment will be achieved quite soon, which means that for the first time a Kurdish insurgency in the century-old life of the Turkish republic will be ended not through military means but by the voluntary decision of those who started it. Kurdish

Challenges and opportunities in the neighbourhood

Ending a 40-year Kurdish insurgency: a historical turning point for Turkey and Syria

By Cengiz Çandar // Posted on 01 Apr 2025

View of the walls and part of the dome of the United Nations General Assembly Hall at the UN Headquarters in New York. Geopolitics

The US-China rivalry and Latin American geopolitics: from narrative to data

By Ernesto Talvi, Gabriel Leiva García // Posted on 27 Mar 2025

A Belgian F-16 pilot, wearing a flight helmet, oxygen mask, and full flight suit, sits inside the bubble canopy of a grey F-16 Fighting Falcon. The cockpit features visible instrument panels and side-stick controls, with warning labels on the fuselage just below the cockpit. The aircraft is parked on the tarmac at Florennes Air Base under a bright, partly cloudy sky during a NATO Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) exercise. Defence

International Security

Europe’s best bet is to increasingly rely on itself for its own security and defence

By Emiliano Alessandri, Domenec Ruiz-Devesa // Posted on 24 Mar 2025