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.
International Security
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.
Making sense of global terrorism now
Al-Qaeda used to be a unitary centralised jihadist organisation. But post 9/11 it evolved into a decentralised terrorist structure within which it is now possible to identify a central nucleus –known as al-Qaeda Central (AQC) and still located in Pakistan’s tribal areas and adjacent territories in Afghanistan– and a number of branches or territorial extensions.
The development of home-grown jihadist radicalisation in Italy
The Muslim communities and jihadist networks in Italy and Spain present similar characteristics and it is therefore interesting to look at the recent development of home-grown jihadist radicalisation in Italy.[1]
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