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Democracy and citizenship

High-Level Review of Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2015. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Eight recommendations for the II National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security

The II National Action Plan for the implementation of Resolution 1325, currently being prepared by the Spanish Government, should build on lessons learnt and include specific measures and best practices if it aims to achieve any advancement in the women, peace and security agenda.

By María Solanas
20 Dec 2016 //
21 mins Reading time
Delayed reaction to '68. Joan Baez and Bob Dylan during the Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C (1963). Photo: Rowland Scherman (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration) via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). Elcano Blog
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

Delayed reaction to ’68

Something began in 1968 that would later gather steam in the 1970s and subsequently. And this is what a section of western societies are now rejecting.

By Andrés Ortega
13 Dec 2016 //
4 mins Reading time
Social media and democracy: Trump harnessed the power of algorithms. Art Series by Oli Goldsmith (@oligoldsmith) / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). Elcano Blog
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

Social media and democracy: Trump harnessed the power of algorithms

The US presidential elections have shown that democracy has changed, and the means of obtaining victory, too.

By Andrés Ortega
22 Nov 2016 //
6 mins Reading time
Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 71st session (20/9/2016). UN Photo by Cia Pak. Elcano Blog
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

Nobody’s perfect, not even Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau shows great promise as a leader, but with Trudeau’s incessant good press, critical voices are not being heard.

13 Oct 2016 //
5 mins Reading time
Map of far right parties booming in Europe. Credits: @elperiodico / @EOGraficos. Elcano Blog
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

The revival of the far right in Europe

The so-called far right is currently present in most of the EU’s national parliaments. What are the reasons for this over the past five years in Europe?

23 Jun 2016 //
4 mins Reading time
Rastro, Madrid. Photo: Nacho Rascón (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Democracy and citizenship Analyses

Highs and lows of immigrant integration in Spain

Spain can boast of having integrated a wave of migrants of singular size and intensity into its society. It is still, however, a long way from the countries where first-generation immigrants and their offspring have secured prominent roles in public life.

By Carmen González Enríquez
13 Jun 2016 //
15 mins Reading time
The EU-Turkey Agreement: a turning point in the EU’s policy approach to the refugee crisis but with the devil lurking in the detail
Future of Europe Experts Comments

The EU-Turkey Agreement: a turning point in the EU’s policy approach to the refugee crisis but with the devil lurking in the detail

The EU-Turkey agreement is a far cry from Angela Merkel’s open borders policy of the summer of 2015.

By Patrícia Lisa
04 Apr 2016 //
8 mins Reading time
Contrasts between the realism of Kennan and Obama (George F. Kennan, photo via Institute for Advanced Studies, and Barack Obama, photo via Wikimedia Commons). Elcano Blog
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

Contrasts between the realism of Kennan and Obama

The greatest disagreements between George F. Kennan's realism and Barack Obama's would today centre on the Middle East and the US reaction to Daesh.

By Antonio R. Rubio Plo
17 Mar 2016 //
5 mins Reading time
George F. Kennan in 1947. Photo: Harris & Ewing Collection – Library of Congress vía Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain Licence. Elcano Blog
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

Kennan’s ‘long telegram’: reflections from the past and the present

On 22 February 1946 George F. Kennan sent to Washington a memorandum known as the ‘long telegram’, which stated the policy of containment.

By Antonio R. Rubio Plo
14 Mar 2016 //
7 mins Reading time

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