1989, much more than the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago. That, but not only that, changed the world.
Globalization, development and governance
Globalisation’s re-Americanisation
The US now appears to be regaining lost ground in the globalisation thanks to a re-industrialisation.
The euro for China: too big to fail and too hard to rescue
The aim of this paper is to understand China’s strategic behaviour towards the European Monetary Union (EMU).
The other necessary international coalition: against the Ebola epidemic
The international coalition against the Ebola epidemic is slowly being built upon the accumulation of mistakes made in the recent past.
The Elcano Global Presence Index and measuring military projection
The Elcano Global Presence Index methodology is always under review. In its military component, modern warfare and the latest trends in force projection pose an extraordinary challenge for future measurements.
Still emerging, but not so much
The growth of the emerging economies is slowing down. Are we at the end of the Great Convergence or is this just a slowdown, a re-balancing of global growth?
The rise of China and Asia: what the Elcano Global Presence Index tells us
This paper uses data from the Elcano Global Presence Index to examine how Asia, and in particular China, are raising their global presence at a very swift pace.
Are the new rules of play between States and Multinationals in Latin America beneficial? An analysis of the impact of extractive multinationals in Bolivia
This paper provides a step forward in the ongoing analytical assessment of the presence of foreign investment companies and investment projects in Bolivia, and toward that purpose it applies the Elcano Royal Institute’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI-D) analytical framework.
Foreign investment, but with local content: development strategies in Brazil
This Working Paper is the result of a case study conducted in Brazil which analysed the impact on development of certain foreign investments in the oil, electricity distribution, automotive, and tourism sectors. The study uses the Elcano Royal Institute’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI-D) analytical framework to explain the rationale underlying the Brazilian government’s local-content policy.