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Category: Publications
“Recasting EU Civilian Crisis Management”, Ginevra Poli (IAI, Italy)
The process leading to a Civilian Compact calls for a deeper understanding of the strengths and shortcomings of the civilian […]
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“Pension reform in Russia: A test of the regime’s resilience and citizens’ patience”, Jussi Lassila (FIIA, Finland)
On June 14, the day that marked the kick-off for the FIFA World Cup, the Russian government announced that from […]
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“Germany and European defence cooperation: A post-Atlantic turn?”, Niklas Helwig (FIIA, Finland)
Tensions in the transatlantic partnership are spurring the German debate on how to prepare for the possibility of a post-Atlantic […]
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“Reshaping Cultural Heritage Protection Policies at a Time of Securitisation: France, Italy, and the United Kingdom”, Paolo Foradori et. al. (IAI, Italy)
In the context of the increasing securitisation of cultural heritage, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom have reacted differently to […]
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“Normative and Civilisational Regionalisms: The EU, Russia and their Common Neighboorhoods”, Andrey Makarychev (IAI, Italy)
The contours of regionalism in a wider Europe are shaped by two dominant actors, the European Union (EU) and Russia, […]
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“Europe’s Dependence on Critical Raw Materials: Implications for the Competitiveness and Independence of Strategic Industries”, Francesco Paron (IAI, Italy)
Since the launch of the Raw Materials Initiative back in 2009, the European Commission has stepped up efforts to ensure […]
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“Analysing Migration Policy Frames of Lebanese Civil Society Organizations”, Jad Chaaban et. al. (IAI, Italy)
This paper is part of a series of working papers of the MEDRESET project to investigate existing EU policies in […]
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“Shifting Borders and New Technological Frontiers: The Case of Italy”, Jean-Pierre Darnis (IAI, Italy)
IAI Commentaries September 2018 “Technology is the new frontier”. This concept is so often used that one has trouble tracing […]
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“PESCO and Security Cooperation Between the EU and Turkey”, Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Alessandro Marrone (IAI, Italy)
The Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) aims to achieve more effective, efficient and synergic military capabilities through a series of ad […]
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“The Crisis of GCC and the Role of the European Union”, Máté Szalai (IAI, Italy)
MENARA Papers, Future Notes 14 The dispute that erupted in 2017 between the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) […]
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“Russia and the Baltics: A Testing Ground for NATO–EU Defence Cooperation”, by Lucrezia Sapienza (IAI, Italy)
IAI Commentaries September 2018 Russia’s growing international assertiveness is particularly relevant to the Baltic region. Due to its geographic position […]
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Research Paper on the Italian election campaign, Alexander Grasse and Jan Labitzke (IEP, Germany)
The days following the Italian parliamentary elections on 4 March 2018 were marked by alarmist headlines in the German and […]
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Research Paper “Soziales Europäisches Semester?”, Björn Hacker (IEP, Germany)
For the first time since its proclamation, the European Commission will incorporate the European Pillar of Social Rights in the […]
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“EU Fears of Balkan Ghosts at Kosovo-Serbia Border Changes”, Pol Bargués-Pedreny (CIDOB, Spain)
Discussions between Serbia and Kosovo about the possibility of agreeing on border adjustments to settle a solution to the current […]
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“Need to have or nice to have? Nordic cooperation, NATO and the EU in Norwegian foreign, security and defence policy”, Nina Græger (NUPI, Norway)
Nordic-ness and Nordic values clearly are embedded in Norway’s conception of its foreign policy role. Nordic cooperation is also important […]
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Universal jurisdiction and international crimes: Constraints and best practices, Florian Jeßberger, Julia Krebs, Cedric Ryngaert (European Parliament)
TEPSA has recently coordinated a publication for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) on “Universal jurisdiction and international crimes: Constraints […]
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“The US Withdraws from the UN Human Rights Council”, Veronika Bilkova (IIR, Czech Republic)
In mid-June 2018, the US announced its withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council. It sat in the Council for […]
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“Brexit: Salzburg makes a people’s vote more likely”, Brendan Donnelly (The Federal Trust, UK)
Over the past two years, the Conservative Party has been riven by the conflict between those who wanted the United […]
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“Spain-US relations and the transatlantic relationship”, Juan Tovar Ruiz (Elcano, Spain)
The first visit of King Felipe and Queen Letizia to the White House was the second top-level encounter between Spain and the […]
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“The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Private Vessel Protection: The Italian Case”, Eugenio Cusumano, Stefano Ruzza (IAI, Italy)
Italy has traditionally been wary of private providers of security. Still, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have recently started […]
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“Pension reform in Russia: A test of the regime’s resilience and citizens’ patience”, Jussi Lassila (FIIA, Finland)
On June 14, the day that marked the kick-off for the FIFA World Cup, the Russian government announced that from […]
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“EU Migration Policy and Regional Integration in Africa: a New Challenge for European Policy Coherence”, Luca Barana (IAI, Italy)
As intra-European tensions on migration policy rage on, more attention should be devoted to the long-term consequences of the EU’s […]
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“Le gouvernement des migrations en Tunisie : Vers un nouveau paradigme?”, Jean-Pierre Cassarino (CoE, Poland)
En dépit de sa perméabilité aux influences extérieures, le pouvoir en Tunisie n’est jamais resté passif face aux injonctions émanant […]
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“Dictionnaire d’économie politique : Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoir”, Colin Hay, Andy Smith (SCPEE, France)
L’économie est fondamentalement politique, la politique ne peut se comprendre sans l’analyse économique. Le postulat de l’interdépendance entre ces deux […]
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“How to boost productivity in the EU”, Klaus Weyerstrass (IHS, Austria)
Advances in total factor productivity (TFP) are important for sustaining economic growth in modern economies, in particular in the face […]
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“Portugal versus Spain: an Iberian economic saga”, Sebastián Puig, Ángel Sánchez (Elcano, Spain)
Spain and Portugal have been the focus of international attention due to their respective economic recoveries in recent years, coming from […]
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“Emigrants from the Western Balkans: the region’ s money sacks?”, Iris Koleša (CIR, Slovenia)
A new book titled ‘Diaspora Networks in International Business: Perspectives for Understanding and Managing Diaspora Business and Resources’ has been […]
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“Withdrawal under article 50 TEU: an integration-friendly process”, Christophe Hillion (NUPI, Norway)
Article 50 TEU acknowledges the right of Member States to withdraw from the EU,and contains a specific procedure. It also […]
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“How the EU really works”, Olivier Costa, Nathalie Brack (CoE, Belgium)
The European Union is facing a profound crisis and is confronted with multiple challenges. Over the last two decades, it […]
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“Liberal Intergovernmentalism and the Crises of the European Union”, Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
The Euro, Schengen and Brexit crises pose important explanatory challenges to liberal intergovernmentalism (LI). In contrast with the historical context […]
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“Traité d’études parlementaires”, Olivier Rozenberg, Eric Thiers (SCPEE, France)
Instances de législation, forums publics, lieux de jeux de pouvoir, réunions d’élites politiques… Les parlements apparaissent différemment selon la perspective […]
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Seventh interview of the “Klartext” series: “How does a European Future for Ukraine look like?” (IEP, Germany)
Within the framework of the project “Platform for Analytics and Intercultural Communication” (PAIC), the seventh interview of the “Klartext” series […]
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“Bureaucratic Authority and Mimesis: the Eurasian Economic Union’s Multiple Integration Logics”, Ueli Staeger, Christian Bobocea (IAI, Italy)
Regional economic integration in the post-Soviet space is related in a complex way with the European Union’s integration process. Multiple […]
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“Russian geopolitical narratives from ‘geopolitics 101’ to postmodern revisionism: Implications for the Baltic-Pontic Region”, Andriy Tyushka (CoE, Poland)
This article maps Russia’s manifold geopolitical narratives along a divide between classical and critical geopolitical thinking and disentangles its geopolitical […]
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Strategy-Making in the EU. From Foreign and Security Policy to External Action”, Pol Morillas (CIDOB, Spain)
This book provides a detailed analysis of the policy-making processes of EU strategies in foreign and security policy and external […]
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“Bridging the Gap Between India and the Baltics”, Sharanya Rajiv (EVI, Estonia)
Diplomatic relations between India and the Baltic states have remained below their potential. However, over the past decade, this began […]
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“Japan-Russia relations: The Kremlin has the upper hand”, Bart Gaens, Marcin Kaczmarski (FIIA, Finland)
Even though bilateral relations have warmed somewhat, Japan has failed to convince Russia to make concessions with regard to the […]
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“Chinese investment in Central and Eastern European Countries: the analysis of EU factor”, Fumei Zhang (IWE, Hungary)
Historically, the international relationship between China and the European Union mainly refers to trade and investment with western European countries. […]
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“The Divisive Nord Stream Two Gas Pipeline”, John Szabó (IWE, Hungary)
All eyes were on the 2018 NATO summit in Belgium in the first half of July, as U.S. President Donald […]
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“Positioning Central and Eastern Europe for Chinese investors? Qualitative characteristics of Chinese investments in CEE”, Ágnes Szunomár (IWE, Hungary)
The change of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries from centrally planned to market economy resulted in increasing flows of […]
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TEPSA Brief “Which future for EU-Swiss relations? A citizens’ perspective”, Sabine Jenni
TEPSA is happy to present its TEPSA Brief on “Which future for EU-Swiss relations? A citizens’ perspective”, written by Sabine Jenni, PhD graduate […]
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TEPSA Brief “The champions of Euroscepticism? Austria’s citizens and the EU”, Katrin Auel
TEPSA is happy to present its new policy brief “The champions of Euroscepticism? Austria’s citizens and the EU” written by Katrin […]
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Latvia in the United States of Europe?
What do the parties, taking part in the 13th elections of the Saeima on October 6, 2018 think of the […]
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TEPSA Brief “The next generation of European farmers: solutions from Romania”, Maria Balea
TEPSA is happy to present its TEPSA Brief on “The next generation of European farmers: solutions from Romania“, written by Maria Balea in […]
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TEPSA Brief “Tackling Roma youth unemployment in Romania: the role of Youth Guarantee Programme”, Catalina Meirosu
TEPSA is happy to present its TEPSA Brief on “Tackling Roma youth unemployment in Romania: the role of Youth Guarantee Programme“, written […]
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FEUTURE Online Paper No. 24: “The Impact of Global Drivers on the Future of EU-Turkey Security Relations”
This paper examines whether global security dynamics will act as either centripetal forces to the Turkey-EU relations on threat perceptions […]
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FEUTURE Online Paper No. 23 “EU-Turkey Relations: Security Drivers from the Eastern Neighbourhood”
A number of developments in the Eastern Neighbourhood since 1999 have affected EU-Turkish security relations. In particular the rise of […]
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“The Controversial US Withdrawal From the Iranian Nuclear Deal and Its International Consequences”, Miroslav Tůma (IIR, Czech Republic)
On May 8, 2018, US President Donald Trump went through with his threat and, this time, has not submitted his […]
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“What Role for the Czech Republic in EU Military Missions?”, Ondřej Ditrych (IIR, Czech Republic)
Policy paper by Ondřej Ditrych seeks to capture how recent strategic trends and Russia’s assertive revisionism in the Eastern approaches […]
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“Issue 1/2018 of integration” (IEP, Germany)
In the new issue of integration, Pol Morillas, Melike Janine Sökmen and Akın Ünver present the global movements, trends and […]
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“Political masquerade passed off as a democratic change of government in Georgia”, Paata Gaprindashvili, Mariam Tsitsikashvili, Gia Japaridze (IEP, Germany)
As part of the new series “Eastern European Insights”, a part of our Berlin Policy Hub project, a first commentary on […]
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“EU: external centrifugal forces and European ‘clusters’”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
The EU’s problems stem not only from within but also from without. What the governments of non-member countries do has an […]
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“A Disputed Sea: from Rescue to the Fight Against Traffickers”, Blanca Garcés Mascareñas (CIDOB, Spain)
Since 2013, more than 16,000 more deaths have been counted in the Mediterranean – not including the disappeared who do […]
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“Bottom-up Approaches to EU–Turkey Migration Cooperation: A Call for Sustainable, Principled, Fair and Inclusive Governance”, Asli Selin Okyay (IAI, Italy)
Based on stakeholder consultations in Turkey, this report examines civil society actors’ views on policy issues regarding migration and mobility, […]
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“The Long-Suffering Europeans Trying to Save the Iran Deal”, Tobias Schumacher (College of Europe, Poland)
The article, entitled “The Long-Suffering Europeans Trying to Save the Iran Deal”, was published just a few days before U.S. […]
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“Beyond the European Council: Domestic Politics Drives the Migration “Crisis” in Italy and Germany”, Gianni Bonvicini (IAI, Italy)
EU migration policy emerged as the main bone of contention at the recent European Council meeting on 28-29 June 2018. […]
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“Looking Through the Fog of Brexit: Scenarios and Implications for the European Defence Industry”, Paola Sartori et. al. (IAI, Italy)
By looking “through the fog” of Brexit, this analysis highlights what could be its major implications on the European defence […]
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“Energy Union Watch”, Nicoló Sartori et. al. (IAI, Italy)
The Energy Union has started its great debate on the future of Europe’s decarbonization – a long, heated discussion which […]
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“Russia 2018: a geopolitical World Cup”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
The FIFA World Cup in Russia, the sporting event with the largest TV audience, is helping to overcome the Putin regime’s […]
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“Relations between the US Intelligence Community and US Presidents, including the Trump Administration”, Gustavo Díaz Matey (Elcano, Spain)
Intelligence is the main response to the risks and threats facing the national security of a country. The relationship of […]
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“The Challenges of European Policies Implementation in Croatia”, Višnja Samardžija (IRMO, Croatia)
This book edited by Višnja Samardžija is result of the three-year ERESMUS+ Jean Monnet Support to Institution project “POLO-Cro28 Policy […]
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“Migration to the Gulf : policies in sending and receiving countries”, Philippe Fargues and Nasra M. Shah (Robert Schuman Centre, Italy)
International migration is an ubiquitous reality in the Gulf States where foreign citizens are a majority in the workforce as […]
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“A joined-up Union in counterterrorism and public diplomacy: Let’s stay on the right track!”, Lorenzo Vai (IAI, Italy)
The search for a more effective method of work has been explicitly mentioned in the EU Global Strategy (EUGS) through […]
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“Security and Defence: A Glass Half Full EUGS”, Nicole Koenig (IAI, Italy)
Strengthening European security and defence cooperation is one of the EUGS’s central aims and an area where significant progress has […]
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“Happy Birthday to the EUGS?”, Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré (IAI, Italy)
The EU Global Strategy, presented by the High Representative and Vice President of the European Commission Federica Mogherini in June […]
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“The challenges of the IOM in a migration tricky era”, Patrícia Lisa (Elcano, Spain)
The Portuguese António Vitorino will head the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the next five years from 1 October. He will […]
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“Will the long-awaited justice prevail in Ukraine?”, Kateryna Pryshchepa (College of Europe, Poland)
Many of Ukraine’s judiciary reforms are starting to take effect. A new Supreme Court has been in place since last […]
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“The vulnerability to exploitation of women migrant workers in agriculture in the EU: the need for a Human Rights and Gender based approach”, Letizia Palumbo and Alessandra Sciurba (Robert Schuman Centre, Italy)
The study aims to explore, through a qualitative approach, the conditions characterising migrant women’s employment in EU rural areas and […]
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“European External Actions in a Multilateral Arena: An Analysis of EU Relations with Brazil”, Eleonora Poli (IAI, Italy)
Relations between the European Union and Brazil have often become stuck in a “vicious circle” of progress, stagnation and even […]
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“Association agreements between the EU and Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine”, Andriy Tyushka (eds.) (College of Europe Natolin)
This opening analysis presents the opinions on the implementation of the association agreements with Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, expressed in […]
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“Industry 4.0 and capability development in manufacturing subsidiaries”, Andrea Szalavetz (IWE, Hungary)
This paper investigates whether advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) can modify the patterns of upgrading in manufacturing subsidiaries operating in FDI […]
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“Trump vs. NATO? Appearances and realities”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
Coming hard on the heels of the G7 in Quebec, and featuring largely the same cast, is the NATO summit in Brussels. At the […]
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“Catalonia is not Scotland, despite appearances”, William Chislett (Elcano, Spain)
Catalonia and Scotland share grievances that led them to hold referendums on independence, in the first case an illegal vote in 2017, in […]
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“Europe and Latin America can blaze a trail on implementing the Paris Agreement”, Guy Edwards (Elcano, Spain)
On Monday 18 June, I had the pleasure to speak at a seminar on Ibero-America and the energy transition and climate […]
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“Rethinking Global Cities Through International Municipalism and the Right to the City”, Agustí Fernández de Losada and Eva Garcia Chueca (CIDOB, Spain)
We live in the era of cities: more than half the world’s population lives in urban areas and forecasts suggest that […]
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“Brexit and European Defence: What to Expect from a “No-Deal” Outcome?”, Paola Sartori (IAI, Italy)
Brexit poses a unique set of challenges to both the UK and the European Union. Its multifaceted implications will affect […]
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“A Soviet project tempts Europe…again”, John Szabó (IWE, Hungary)
All eyes were on the 2018 NATO summit, as President Trump was poised to wreak havoc during his time in […]
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“The demolition of Rodrik’s trilemma”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
In his book The Globalization Paradox, published in 2011, the Harvard Professor Dani Rodrik formulated his famous trilemma: it is impossible to […]
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“The EU and the Iran nuclear deal: How to proceed?”, Erzsébet Nagyné Rózsa (IWE, Hungary)
The European Union has played a complementary role to that of the United States over many issues in the Middle […]
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“Should Franco’s tomb be removed from his basilica?”, William Chislett (Elcano, Spain)
More than 40 years after the death of General Francisco Franco, Spain’s dictator between 1939 and 1975 and the victor of […]
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“Turkey’s choice: an election that might be too close to call”, Ilke Toygür (Elcano, Spain)
How can one write a pre-election comment when there is so much at stake, society has become so polarised and […]
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“Revision of EU-Turkey customs union in the light of trade relations throughout history”, Ceran Arslan Olcay (IWE, Hungary)
The acceleration of Globalization, with the decrease in the costs of information, communication and transportation, changed the nature of the […]
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“Assessing EU Democracy and Human Rights Policies from the Perspective of Tunisian Bottom-Up Actors”, Asma Nouira and Hamadi Redissi (IAI, Italy)
This report is part of a series of working papers to provide an understanding and assessment of EU democracy and […]
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“Reversing the Perspective: How European Stakeholders React to Migration Policy Frames of Southern Mediterranean Counterparts”, Emanuela Roman (IAI, Italy)
This paper investigates how European institutional and civil society actors frame and assess EU migration policies in the Mediterranean area. […]
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“Three reasons to be ambitious with the Climate Change and Energy Transition Law”, Lara Lázaro (Elcano, Spain)
Spain’s ratification of the Paris Agreement – with the government now committed to developing a Climate Change and Energy Transition […]
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“Shifting trafficking routes for illicit narcotics and the importance of Spain-US counter-narcotics cooperation”, Eric L. Olson & Nina Gordon (Elcano, Spain)
Counter-narcotics cooperation between Spain and the US is of growing importance to both countries but remains limited in scope. Flows […]
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“Wise Cities in the Mediterranean? Challenges of Urban Sustainability”, Eckart Woertz (ed.) (CIDOB, Spain)
Cities are home to over half the world’s population, consume a majority of its resources and cause a large share […]
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“Target 2030: illicit financial flows”, Alex Cobham (Elcano, Spain)
Target 16.4 in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030) is a global commitment to reduce the level of illicit […]
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“Moroccans and the second generation among Jihadists in Spain”, Fernando Reinares & Carola García-Calvo (Elcano, Spain)
A large majority of Jihadists in Spain are either Moroccans or descendants of Moroccans. But it is more likely for […]
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“Italian and Spanish approaches to external migration management in the Sahel: venues for cooperation and coherence” (Elcano, Spain; IAI, Italy)
This paper is the result of a joint project by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome) and the Elcano Royal Institute, promoted by […]
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“Renminbi Internationalisation: stuck in mid-river – for now”, Miguel Otero-Iglesias (Elcano, Spain)
This paper looks at the internationalisation of the renminbi in May 2018, why it has stagnated since 2015 and what […]
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“The Trump Administration’s National Security Strategy”, Carlota García Encina (Elcano, Spain)
At the end of 2017 the US published a new National Security Strategy (NSS), replacing the previous NSS of 2015 […]
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“Implementing the integrated approach: Investing in other international organisations”, Hylke Dijkstra (IAI, Italy)
This contribution points at the importance that the EU ascribes to partnership in the EU Global Strategy and other policy […]
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“EU-Russia Relations in the New Putin Era: Not Much Light at the End of the Tunnel”, András Rácz and Kristi Raik (EVI, Estonia)
On 7 May 2018, Russia entered the fourth and probably final presidency of Vladimir Putin. This was preceded by a […]
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“Innovating Global Governance: bottom-up, the inductive approach”, Andrés Ortega, Aitor Pérez and Ángel Saz-Carranza (Elcano, Spain)
In this Policy Brief authors argue that inductive global governance is a bottom-up mode of organising global collective action that […]
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“The US-Europe vs. Russia Triangle”, Eugene B. Rumer (IAI, Italy)
Russia’s relations with Europe and the United States are at their worst since the end of the Soviet Union. Russian […]
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TEPSA Brief: “Making the invisible visible: the EU’s impact on the lives of Slovenian people”, Maja Bučar
TEPSA is happy to present a new policy brief on “Making the invisible visible: the EU’s impact on the lives […]
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“It’s the rules, stupid!”: Estonia in the EU MFF negotiations”, Piret Kuusik (EVI, Estonia)
The European Union is currently in the early stages of its negotiations about the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for […]
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Human rights in Belarus: The EU’s role since 2016, Giselle Bosse and Alena Vieira (European Parliament)
TEPSA has recently coordinated a study for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) on Human rights in Belarus – The […]
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