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The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: the risks of navigating without a map
By Miquel Vila · 17/02/2021
On the brink of 2021, China and the European Union (EU) signed the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment’s (CAI). The Commission argues that the CAI contains substantial concessions from China that would help balance trade relations and create a level playing field between both economies. China has agreed to open new areas of its economy […]
EU’s miscalculation on Catalonia and its impact on the Common Foreign and Security Policy
By Catalonia Global Institute · 12/02/2021
Downland the report as pdf Last week’s trip of the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Mr. Josep Borrell to Moscow has generated broad criticism. It was conceived at Borrell’s initiative to engage in constructive dialogue with Russia, an idea not supported by all EU members (especially those with a more hostile […]
The world as it is or as we would like it to be?
By Roger Castellanos · 05/02/2021
The restoration of realism at the heart of old Europe, perhaps even more so in Catalonia, is not an easy task. Fundamentally, the difficulty lies in the prevailing idealist account in approaching the actual disputes that govern global dynamics. The Realist School does not ask herself “how we would like the world to be,” but […]
The Second Karabakh War and the new geopolitics in the South Caucasus
By Abel Riu · 29/01/2021
2020 is gone, but it has been a year that set global dynamics in fast motion. The tectonic plates of a changing international order have continued to move, giving rise to the emergence of new conflicts and the reactivation of old, unresolved disputes, until recently, wrongly labeled as “frozen” by some analysts. This is the […]
The European Union is an international organization
By Jofre Rocabert · 29/01/2021
The European Union seems to be living in an almost permanent institutional crisis. But looking at it through a wider perspective, we are still living in the historical period that the French inaugurated when they refused to ratify the constitutional treaty in 2005. The departure of the United Kingdom and the disintegration of freedom of […]
Catalonia’s opportunity in the new Mediterranean equilibrium
By Rosa Cabús · 29/01/2021
During the Cold War, there was complete strategic alignment between the United States (US) and Western Europe, evidenced in particular by the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) so as to prevent a potential military attack from the Soviet Union (USSR) and its satellites, who themselves would later form the Warsaw Pact. Article […]
Biden: No more mixed messages to Russia
By Bohdan Nahaylo · 29/01/2021
The new president of the United States, Democrat Joe Biden, is different in style and substance as a political leader from the Republican Donald Trump, whom he defeated in the most bitter presidential election in memory. Many in his own country and abroad hope the new president will restore stability, predictability, and core foundational values […]
Is China an enemy of Biden’s America?
By Xulio Ríos · 29/01/2021
We might contextualize the most recent US policy towards China through two speeches, that of Vice President Mike Pence at the Hudson Institute in 2018, and that of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Nixon Library in 2020. Both developed, to some extent, the 2017 National Security Strategy. The message is clear and twofold: […]
Joe Biden’s presidency and the possible geopolitical shifts in the Middle East
By Yeghia Tashjian · 29/01/2021
President Joe Biden has inherited a state of disorder in the Middle East from Donald Trump. Powers such as Russia and Turkey have filled the vacuum as the US has, to a certain degree, isolated itself from regional issues. Biden is expected to make a comeback to the region that, to some extent, goes through […]