Some thoughts on the pre-COVID world. 2019 Elcano Global Presence Index results
According to this year's edition of the Elcano Global Presence Index, the world was already deglobalizing before the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to this year's edition of the Elcano Global Presence Index, the world was already deglobalizing before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Multilateralism is not an end in itself, but rather a means, a method, not an absolute goal, and has currently lost its way.
The cyberspace is far from being integrated into the multilateralism and regional cooperation approaches through norms, an urgent and necessary issue.
The health, economic, social and political crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic will also reconfigure international relations and globalisation.
Although it is also a relative phenomenon, in absolute terms there is less power –and more poverty– in the world today; general weakness is assured.
It is not that COVID-19 virus has put in train a process of deglobalisation. This originated in the reactions to the 2008 crisis and what came in its wake.
The Elcano Global Presence Index includes 28 African countries. Africa has the lowest global presence but the highest growth since 1990.
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.
Latin America ranks fourth in the global presence ranking. However, the gaps with the Middle East and Africa are narrowing.
It is vital to promote a proactive policy, which bridges the gap between risk perception and reality. A common governance in light of uncertainty.
The abusive interpretations of the international norm of the self-determination of peoples by secessionist groups in liberal democracies entail a violation of the fundamental human rights of the entire population of the state in question. This paper discusses the norm’s abuse in reference to the people of Catalonia.
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.