The Europeanisation of the anti-Europeans
The anti-Europeans are Europeanising in order to thwart Europe. They operate at a pan-European level to make gains at a national level.
Global Spectator
Space forces
Globalisation and its control do not (yet) operate on a cosmic scale, but they do extend as far as outer space.
An outbreak of ethics in Silicon Valley
To what can we ascribe this outbreak of ethics in Silicon Valley and elsewhere? The political awakening spread and became viral.
Europe should not be betting against Trump
Europe, despite the insults meted out to it by Donald Trump, must devise its own strategy come what may because the US has changed
The demolition of Rodrik’s trilemma
En estos tiempos de salida de una larga crisis y de cambio de orden mundial, los tres vértices –y por consiguiente, los lados– están saltando a la vez.
Trump vs. NATO? Appearances and realities
Despite the fact that it is changing profoundly and has lost cohesion and centrality, the news about NATO's death has been greatly exaggerated.
Russia 2018: a geopolitical World Cup
The FIFA World Cup in Russia is helping to overcome the Vladimir Putin regime’s international isolation, at least in the West.
EU: external centrifugal forces and European ‘clusters’
The EU's problems stem not only from within but also from without. What the governments of non-member countries do has an impact on the range of ‘clusters’ into which the Union is fracturing, divisions that are already more complex than North-South, East-West or lenders-borrowers.
Trade wars and conflict of perceptions
Underlying the trade war –because what was a minor spat has become just that– unleashed by the current US President there is a conflict of perceptions.
Spain is not Italy
Italy and Spain are not only highly different, if anything they have become more so. This has become even more pronounced with the recent political changes in the two countries.
Religion’s waning influence in Western Europe
In general –despite the fact that several countries in the EU have some form of Christianity as their official state creed–, religion has lost influence in Western Europe, whether in terms of beliefs, religious practice or institutions, although less so in terms of identity.
