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.
Globalization, development and governance
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.
Target 2030: illicit financial flows
Target 16.4 in the UN Sustainable Development Goals is a global commitment to reduce the level of illicit financial flows. The target stands as a great achievement by civil society organisations, but there remain critical challenges, both technical and political, if progress is to be realised.
Italian and Spanish approaches to external migration management in the Sahel: venues for cooperation and coherence
Italy and Spain face similar challenges in managing migration originating from and transiting through Africa. This paper provides a broad view of the evolution of their migration policies with the aim of encouraging an improved and broadened dialogue between the two countries.
Spain ups its global presence
Spain was ranked 11th out of 110 countries in the 2017 Elcano Global Presence Index, which measures the results of internationalisation, up from 12th in 2016.
The dangerous politics of humiliation
One of the expressions that has cropped up in various analyses of Donald Trump’s foreign policy is «humiliation», whether in the context of Mexico, Iran, Europe, the UN or even for a period North Korea.
The best of all possible worlds
«The best of all possible worlds» is a simplistic expression stemming from the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s complex 1710 Essays of Theodicy. There is now a concerted effort to promote a new optimism, armed with data and also backed by philosophy.
What is behind the African miracle? Implications for European cooperation
The evolution of African economies since the end of the raw-materials boom has been marked by a growing heterogeneity. The EU’s development cooperation should adapt to the new realities unfolding on the continent.
The international aid of subnational governments: the case of Spain
Spanish Autonomous Communities (regions) and municipalities gave some US$220 million in development assistance in 2015. This accounts for a third of total Spanish bilateral ODA, making Spain the world’s most decentralised donor.
The decline of the West, 1918-2018
One hundred years after the end of th First World War there is again a widespread sense that we are witnessing the decline of the West and the relatively liberal world order that it erected.
Three things we have learned in Ispra
Building a composite indicator is not an easy task. The Elcano Global Presence Index has gone through two rounds of evaluations with the JRC-COIN team in Ispra (Italy). We write about three things that we thought we would never learn from a statistician (or from a group of statisticians).