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Elections in Brazil, the origins of polarization
By Marcelo Silva · 04/10/2022
On Sunday, Brazil held its 16th election since its democratization in 1988. International media has focused on the possibility that these elections will become the first to be contested, in a manner reminiscent of the presidential elections in the United States two years ago. This has become a possibility after a period of intense polarization, […]
Is “Catalan geopolitics” possible?
By Miquel Vila · 19/09/2022
There is no area where the weakness of Catalan national thought is more clearly ostensible than in the absence of Catalan geopolitics. This series of essays aims to point out that when international politics are discussed in Catalonia, its own interests are absent in most analyses. In this regard, the goal of these articles is […]
Summer reading list 2022
By Catalonia Global Institute · 05/08/2022
We would like to share with you our Summer 2022 reading list! Doomed to succeed – Dennis Ross The strategic alliance between the United States and Israel is considered so natural that, in the eyes of many people, it may seem that it has always existed. However, Dennis Ross’s “Dommed to succeed” shows us in […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: how will it affect the Middle East and North Africa?
By Rosa Cabús · 10/06/2022
On February 24th 2022, Russia launched a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. The incursion, which is still ongoing, has put into question the generally tacitly undisputed norm against territorial conquest. Since the Second World War, this principle has assured stability in the turbulent regions of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), often at the […]
The war in Ukraine and the European Union
By Jofre Rocabert · 25/05/2022
European Union (EU) observers often write that the evolution of its foreign policy is a function of how it takes advantage of crises. The immobility of the institutions during the outbreak of the war in Yugoslavia generated enough consensus to place the common foreign and security policy at a central role in the reforms of […]
The Catalan rebels-in-waiting. A new survey on Catalonia’s independence and civil disobedience
By Catalonia Global Institute · 11/04/2022
More than 70% percent of Catalan pro-independence supporters are willing to participate in civil disobedience actions to achieve their political goal. A new survey conducted by the GESOP research center on the Catalan population’s support for independence asks for the first time the means people would be willing to use to achieve it. Who are […]
Turkey’s ‘Asia Anew’ Initiative and Antalya Diplomacy Forum
By Ahmet Faruk ISIK · 04/04/2022
Two key Turkish Foreign Policy platforms played a joint role during March 2021; ‘Asia Anew’ and Antalya Diplomacy Forum. The Antalya Diplomacy Forum was held on March 11-12-13. The first meeting between Ukraine and Russia after the war was also held at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum. This key meeting was hosted by Turkey’s Foreign Minister […]
Asia vis-à-vis the invasion of Ukraine
By Miquel Vila · 22/03/2022
The West has presented a united front before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Western audiences may believe that the world is rallying behind us against Russian expansionism. The fact is that we no longer live in a time when the opinion of the West could be taken as the opinion of the international community. The […]
France, an enemy of Catalonia?
By Ignasi Fortuny · 17/03/2022
Principles of international politics Over the last few decades in Catalonia, there has existed a broad tendency to think that nation-states define their international policies according to ideologies and values rather than interests. Empiric evidence tells us that states act according to interests, particularly economic and political interests. From this point of view, the geopolitical […]
When there is a horizon, there is need for strategy
By Rosa Cabús · 04/02/2022
It is commonplace to argue, as I have previously myself, that every country – in this case, Catalonia – requires a strategy. Strategy is a big-sounding word. In many cases, the word is useful as a counterargument when criticizing what political leaders either do or do not do. Although the term has become diluted due […]