Domestic politics / foreign policy
Foreign policy and domestic politics are intimately linked. Spain has a great deal at stake in this two-way relationship between the domestic and foreign.
Global Spectator
A Saudi G20: the global projection of domestic reforms
The Saudis take over the presidency of the G20 in 2020, something the government wants to use to draw its reforms to the world’s attention.
The emptying Europe
Alarm bells are ringing virtually across Europe: populations are in precipitous decline, both in the Eastern countries of the EU and in the west.
The decade of disillusion
The decade that has just ended, the 2010s, was marked by the crisis that began in 2007-08, accompanied by the onset of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
From Brexit to Great Singapore in Europe
In the wake of Boris Johnson’s resounding victory in the British election, Brexit looks set to happen on the date envisaged and on the terms agreed.
Hamilton: from impeachment to Broadway and back
The US had some wise founding fathers. Prominent among them was Alexander Hamilton who did become the first Secretary of the Treasury.
NATO, lacking political guidance and with no arbitrary 2%
When Emmanuel Macron claimed that NATO was ‘brain dead’, he was making the same observation as the child in the story: the Emperor has no clothes.
Praise for the whistleblower
The fact that Donald Trump finds himself in dire straits and facing possible impeachment proceedings is due to a whistleblower.
1989, 30 years on: from the Iron Curtain to digital curtains
The Berlin wall and the Iron curtain fell thirty years ago. Despite the expansion of freedoms, new walls have been built, but this time they are digital.
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