The fight against inequality that unites and separates Biden and Xi Jinping
The US and China have a shared problem: the burgeoning inequality despite the growth over the past 20 years
Globalization, development and governance
Regional or global player? The EU’s international profile
By means of the Elcano Global Presence Index, this policy paper aims to depict the EU’s international profile while tracking to what extent its features and the objectives of the EU’s global strategy are aligned with the volume, nature and geographical allocation of the Union’s external projection.
Technological power at stake
The UN telecommunications agency may change the course of technological governance, and thus of power, in 2022.
The costs of non-multilateralism
Multilateralism is an alliance of powers and other actors in pursuit of shared goals that we will see come together at COP26 in Glasgow.
The end of the world pre-COVID: what do the 2020 results of the Elcano Global Presence Index tell us?
We are launching the 2020 edition of the Elcano Global Presence Index, which does not yet reflect the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Soft power put to the test
China aims to improve its external image. Is soft power changing or is it up to our foreign policy to rethink itself?
New global public goods and evils
New instruments and methods are required, and new global governance, for the new global public goods and evils.
Re-globalisation with hiccups
We are heading towards a more protectionist, more nationalist, more regionalised form of re-globalisation, including in the digital realm.
The fall and stagnation of the global middle class
Among the destructive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, one is the worldwide decline of the global middle class, except in China.
COVID-19: the geopolitics of the vaccine, a weapon for global security
Amid the coronavirus crisis, the vaccine seems to offer the most promising way out. The vaccination programme is also important.
Containers: essential but more expensive
Standardised containers have become an essential component of modern globalisation, carrying by sea almost half the world’s trade.
The global agenda: immunising the world
A new brand of wholesale global cooperation is required, both for vaccines and for treatments. Global governance has failed.