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.
If consolidating a ceasefire in the eastern Ukraine will be difficult, making peace will be even more so.
Terrorist groups are generally distinguished from guerrilla organisations, but this distinction is gradually disappearing as a growing number of terrorist groups adopt guerrilla tactics.
Why the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in France? Al-Qaeda or the IS? Will there be more attacks? Will the attacks reinforce far-right extremism?
Serbia will hold the chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) for 2015.
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