The European Union’s role in the fight against ISIS
Before formulating any response to the ISIS challenge, the European Union must carefully assess the nature of the risk to European security interests.
International Security
To sit and to be on the Security Council
Periodically, Spain gears itself for the enormous effort to get itself elected by the UN General Assembly a non-permanent member of the Security Council for two years.
What did NATO promise Gorbachev?
Some in Russia maintain that the West promised there would be no NATO expansion eastwards, even towards what was soon to be the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), in exchange for accepting German unification. The West, particularly the US, maintains there was no such commitment. Which is true?
NATO: fronts, frontiers and vectors
NATO can choose between building either bridges or borders, but it cannot ignore the vectors. Does it know what it wants? Does it want what it knows? Do its members, who have been cutting their military expenditure as a result of the crisis, know what they want, even if they agree on calling for an increase?
The strange triad: the US, Iran and Saudi Arabia
The US knows that a nuclear agreement with Iran is the best way to normalise foreign relations with Iran, to ensure it ceases to be a rogue state and embraces moderation. This should change the dynamics in the Middle East, even if Israel is unwilling.
The EU and North Korea: stopping bombs, encouraging shops
With North Korea unwilling to halt WMD proliferation yet in the middle of an opening up process, the EU’s policy has to carefully balance non-proliferation activities with economic engagement.
Iraq’s failures
Iraq has failed as a concept. It has been a failure of seeing democracy as only a question of votes, disregarding the protection and integration of minorities.
Has Putin won?
Has Putin won? In the short term, so it seems. In the long run it is much more uncertain because Western confidence in the Russian President, and in Russia, has evaporated.
The Elcano Global Presence Index and measuring military projection
The Elcano Global Presence Index methodology is always under review. In its military component, modern warfare and the latest trends in force projection pose an extraordinary challenge for future measurements.
Let’s ask: ‘The end of the two-state solution?’
What solution is possible for a stable and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians? Is the end of the two-state solution?
The jihadist threat to France and its interests abroad
This analysis focuses on the current jihadist threat to France and its interests abroad.
Let’s ask… ‘After the Crimea: ¿towards a new deterrence?’
The crisis with Russia over the Crimea and the Ukraine in general has led the EU and NATO to start re-thinking the concept of deterrence, although in a very different context from that of the Cold War.
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