International financial transparency
This paper advocates clear concepts and ways of measuring transparency and illicit financial flows as a first step to improving the communication of the agenda and ultimately making it more effective.
Globalization, development and governance
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.
Multilateralism has lost its way
Multilateralism is not an end in itself, but rather a means, a method, not an absolute goal, and has currently lost its way.
Which multilateralism for Cyber Norms?
The cyberspace is far from being integrated into the multilateralism and regional cooperation approaches through norms, an urgent and necessary issue.
The end of globalisation? A reflection on the effects of the COVID-19 crisis using the Elcano Global Presence Index
The health, economic, social and political crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic will also reconfigure international relations and globalisation.
General assured weakness: a world with less power
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.
The deglobalisation virus
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.
African global presence: scant global presence and high concentration
The Elcano Global Presence Index includes 28 African countries. Africa has the lowest global presence but the highest growth since 1990.
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.
Latin America global presence: a passive player in the globalization
Latin America ranks fourth in the global presence ranking. However, the gaps with the Middle East and Africa are narrowing.
Future risks: towards a common governance in light of uncertainty
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 self-determination of peoples vs human rights in liberal democracies: the case of Catalonia
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.