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Shanghai. Photo: Ayala (public domain)
Technology and economics Analyses

The changing Chinese economic model: an opportunity for Spanish companies

This analysis focuses on China’s changing economic growth model and the important new business opportunities this change is generating for Spanish companies.

By Adrián Blanco Estévez
08 May 2018 //
18 mins Reading time
Psychographic advertising: the global battle to sway minds. Photo: Adit Jani (Public domain). Elcano Blog
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

Psychographic advertising: the global battle to sway minds

The Cambridge Analytica case shows that almost anyone –private companies, governments, non-state organisations– with access to users’ data and a certain degree of technical sophistication can carry out the «psychographic advertising».

By Andrés Ortega
27 Mar 2018 //
6 mins Reading time
San Francisco Bay Bridge. Photo: ah zut (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Technology and economics Analyses

The world economy in 2018

The world economy seems to be rebounding definitively from the Great Recession, but many and varied risks still threaten consolidation of the recovery in 2018.

By Federico Steinberg
08 Mar 2018 //
16 mins Reading time
A global Cold War over Artificial Intelligence. A wafer full of quantum processors. Photo: Steve Jurvetson (CC BY 2.0). Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

A global Cold War over Artificial Intelligence

There is a race, essentially between China, the US and Europe, to acquire new technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). It will determine economic (and military) dominion in the not too-distant future.

By Andrés Ortega
20 Feb 2018 //
5 mins Reading time
Press conference by Margrethe Vestager on EU antitrust legislation (27/7/2017). Photo: Georges Boulougouris - EC Audiovisual Service / ©European Union, 2017. Elcano Blog
Future of Europe Experts Comments

The EU’s global normative influence

The EU is proving to have a capacity for global influence on normative issues. Its internal regulations are in some cases being adopted beyond its borders.

By Andrés Ortega
09 Jan 2018 //
4 mins Reading time
Disinformation campaigns: the weakness caused by mistrust. Photo: Leigh Anthony DEHANEY (CC BY-NC 2.0). Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

Disinformation campaigns: the weakness caused by mistrust

The debate about post-truth, disinformation, fake news and manipulation favours the manipulators. Mistrust cannot simply be offset by more information.

By Andrés Ortega
05 Dec 2017 //
6 mins Reading time
CRISPR-Cas9 Editing of the Genome. Photo: Ernesto del Aguila III - National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) (CC BY-NC 2.0). Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

Editing the genome requires global governance

Regulating and controlling the editing of the human genome (CRISPR-Cas9 system) must also form part of global governance.

By Andrés Ortega
28 Nov 2017 //
5 mins Reading time
100 years after the Russian Revolution: central planning with big data? Buzludzha Monument (Bulgaria). Photo: Montecruz Foto (CC BY-SA 2.0). Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

100 years after the Russian Revolution: central planning with big data?

One hundred years down the line, the dystopia of central planning and total control cannot be written off as extinct. Will they be reborn under big data?

By Andrés Ortega
14 Nov 2017 //
4 mins Reading time
India's brutal demonetisation was not so bad after all. Photo: Kottakkalnet (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Blog Elcano
Global Spectator Experts Comments

India’s brutal demonetisation was not so bad after all

Following the decision to remove 86% of hard currency from circulation on 8 November, India is hauling itself out of this quagmire of demonetisation.

By Andrés Ortega
04 Apr 2017 //
4 mins Reading time

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