Spain through the eyes of an FT correspondent
When FT journalist Tobias Buck took up his post at the end of 2012, Spain was in the throes of crises. By the time he left in 2017, it was back on its feet.
Democracy and citizenship
Legal challenges and the practicability of disembarkation centres for illegal migrants outside the EU
This paper analyses the legal challenges and practicability of establishing of disembarkation centres for illegal migrants outside EU territory.
Women, gender and think tanks: political influence network in Twitter 2018
What are the relationships and networks of gender studies and women specialists within the global network of political influence on Twitter?
Forty years of democratic Spain
Forty years ago this month, Spaniards overwhelmingly approved their new Constitution in a referendum which sealed the country's transition to democracy.
The young have more sway in the US than in Europe
Age has become a key factor in politics, both in the US and in Europe, but young people hold more sway in the former than in the latter.
The radical right lacks an International
The radical right is on the rise in a range of democracies, from Europe to Brazil. It is globalising rather than internationalising.
Diplomacy in the Digital Age
Diplomacy in the Digital Age depends on how diplomats understand and transform online influence into tangible offline diplomatic influence.
Italian and Spanish approaches to external migration management in the Sahel: venues for cooperation and coherence
Italy and Spain face similar challenges in managing migration originating from and transiting through Africa. This paper provides a broad view of the evolution of their migration policies with the aim of encouraging an improved and broadened dialogue between the two countries.
Debt mutualisation, inflation and populism in the Eurozone
The balance between monetary normalisation and debt mutualisation should allow a soft transition from ECB’s sovereign interventions to some form of fiscal solution ‘from the centre’.
Psychographic advertising: the global battle to sway minds
The Cambridge Analytica case shows that almost anyone –private companies, governments, non-state organisations– with access to users’ data and a certain degree of technical sophistication can carry out the «psychographic advertising».
Gender equality in Trump’s America
What has been the impact of Donald Trump’s decisions and public policies on the rights and liberties of women during the first year of his Presidency?
Democracies on the back foot
The retreat of democracies could also start to be a concern for global order, which is reverting to rivalry between great powers that are very different from one another.