The II National Action Plan for the implementation of Resolution 1325, currently being prepared by the Spanish Government, should build on lessons learnt and include specific measures and best practices if it aims to achieve any advancement in the women, peace and security agenda.
Aleppo, despite its role in preserving a regime in power, is a sign that great change is underway.
Although Russia knows that it is needed to resolve many global problems, the country has shrunk in comparison with the US and China
After six years, the situation in Syria has become a world war on a small, concentrated scale, although with terrible consequences for its inhabitants.
Missile defence in Europe is evolving and maturing, even if it this is occurring at the margins of public debate. At the same time, there are perceptions that the missile threat is growing. A more sophisticated approach towards missile defence in Europe is required.
Why do young European-Arab Muslims, and converts, go to join the Islamic State (ISIS or Daesh) to fight or sacrifice themselves?
The Obama Administration has embarked on an intensive and costly nuclear modernisation programme, and on a new nuclear weapons race with Russia and China.
We have to avoid the spread of Islamophobia without losing sight of the challenge that both the Jihadists with their terrorist outrages and the Salafists with their anti-democratic preaching pose to open societies.
The terrorist threat to the EU from ISIS is a varied one. In the wake of what happened in Paris boils down the advice that we should ‘expect the unexpected’.
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