La reputación de España en el mundo. Country RepTrak®2021 ENEN
Edición 2021 del informe que analiza la reputación de España en el mundo mediante encuestas de opinión entre ciudadanos de 24 países utilizando la metodología Country RepTrak®.
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Mody’s ‘Euro tragedy’: the counter story
This is a long and dissenting review, in nine acts, of Ashoka Mody’s book EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts, based on a political economy approach, generally absent in the book.
The ‘Stans’ at 20
In late December the five Central Asian countries enter their third decade of independence, effectively achieved when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the USSR and turned the Kremlin over to Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Federation.
Spain’s Multinationals: the Dynamic Part of an Ailing Economy
The investments abroad of a significant number of Spanish companies are enabling them to weather the depressed domestic economy relatively well, while exports have become the engine of economic growth.
The Global Crisis and its Implications for Latin America
Latin America has not been immune to the turmoil unleashed in the wake of Lehman Brothers’ demise. This working paper looks at the size and characteristics of the external shocks endured by the region, its vulnerability to them and the political responses they have elicited.
The Euro vs Dollar Debate: A Review
This Working Paper provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary literature review on the euro vs dollar debate. In the first part it presents the euro-optimist and the euro-sceptical hypotheses on the euro’s challenge to the dollar within Economic literature and how current data show how the euro has underperformed vis-à-vis euro-optimistic expectations. In the second part, the paper explains the euro’s political flaws.
France’s National Security Strategy
France is one of the EU’s member states with a most highly-developed national strategic culture. However, the 2008 White Paper on Defence and National Security represents a significant leap in the evolution of the French strategic thinking and policies. It establishes the concept of national security, that transcends the traditional realms of defence and internal security and moves towards the overarching concept of national security.
The Cost for the EU of ‘Losing’ Turkey
Turkey’s EU accession negotiations, proceeding at a snail’s pace since 2005, run the risk of coming to a complete halt. This would have many costs for Europe.
Destined for Irrelevance? Subsidiarity Control by National Parliaments
The Lisbon Treaty introduced the ‘early-warning mechanism’, with national legislatures assigned the right to monitor whether initiatives for EU laws comply with the principle of subsidiarity. Does the mechanism really empower national parliaments by giving them a collective veto in EU politics or will it remain largely unused by domestic MPs?
Spain’s Main Multinationals: Building on their Success
Spain’s main multinationals are going from strength to strength. The investments and acquisitions made abroad over the last 15 years or so are increasingly profitable and significantly reducing the reliance on a domestic market that is in the doldrums.
A New Composite Global Terrorism Threat to Western Societies from Pakistan? Making Sense of the January 2008 Suicide Bomb Plot in Barcelona
The actors behind the past twarthed attacks in the Spanish city denoted an intriguing combination which, indicative of the operational limitations faced by Al Qaeda and early manifestation of the Punjabi Taliban network, reflected an evolving terrorism threat to the West related with Pakistan.
Cyprus: Time for a Negotiated Partition?
The Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot leaders have resumed negotiations to reunify Cyprus, which has been divided for more than three decades along ethnic lines. But progress is still very slow and the partition option is gaining credence.