The reality facing women and girls in conflict scenarios and their role in peace-building will not improve unless firmer and more decisive action as well as a clear political impetus and funding for the goals agreed in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) are forthcoming.
In their approach to bombing Syria, the major powers are not pursuing the same strategic or political ends, or even justifying themselves on the same legal basis.
Syria: 320,000 dead up to June and 4,088,099 refugees since 2011, Neither Arabs nor Westerners, nor anyone else for that matter, have a clear strategy.
The land part of the New Silk Road project runs through northern Iran, opening up possibilities for cooperation between the US and Beijing.
Daesh is going for effective control of territory: hence using the name ‘State’, since the fundamental objective of its leader is to establish a caliphate.
Rota naval base and a now revitalised Morón Air Base provide the US with a logistics platform for the South and East, while it is also in Spain’s interest.
The Arctic will be the scene of future nationalist rivalries, in the style of the 19th century but also of the geopolitical consequences of the Ukraine crisis.
For more than a decade the available data have shown that four out of every 10 individuals convicted in Spain for activities related to jihadist terrorism were arrested in Catalonia, and more specifically Barcelona and its metropolitan area.
Although the US will have to exercise a large degree of brinkmanship between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a realignment is taking place in the region.
Before having a European army, it would be advisable to first build a Union of Security and Defence, and that is still a long way off.
When 11-M occurred, Spaniards sought to explain the terrorist bombings using familiar concepts, since they could not do so using unfamiliar ones. What was familiar? On the one hand, ETA, and on the other, Iraq. Both interpretations were wrong.
Round table chaired by Charles Powell (@CharlesTPowell), director of the Elcano Royal Institute, at Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid.