Europe
Catalonia and the fiscal deficit: a planned economic drain
By Eduard Gracia · 28/02/2024
Some news, spectacular as it might seem, may not be relevant in its own right, but it is through the underlying reality it brings to the surface – like the proverbial finger pointing at the moon. That is the case of the study that the Generalitat de Catalunya (the government of Spain’s autonomous region of […]
Rise and Fall of Counter-Hegemonic Elites in Scottish Politics
By Samuel McIlhagga · 10/10/2023
Scotland is at a crossroads. The Scottish National Party (SNP) is imploding. The party has been in power in the devolved Scottish parliament since 2007, first in a minority government and then the majority since 2010. But the nationalist mainstay then lost its Holyrood parliamentary majority in 2016 and now governs as a minority government […]
Success of the First Conference on International Politics and Defense of Catalonia
By Catalonia Global Institute · 10/10/2023
On Saturday, September 30th, the Catalonia Global Institute and the Military Studies Society organized the First Conference on International Politics and Defense of Catalonia, with the aim of generating analysis and debate on these issues from a nationally focused perspective. The event brought three renowned international speakers to Barcelona. Professor Matt Qvortrup, a specialist in […]
Denmark: the new soft-hard diplomacy
By Catalonia Global Institute · 12/02/2023
With the hardening of geopolitics in Europe, and above all, since the start of the Ukraine war, it is becoming increasingly clear that there is a twist in the way the hard side of foreign policy combines with the soft version of diplomacy and international relations. In fact, after the Second World War, from the […]
The rise of Space Commands
By Marçal Sanmartí · 20/01/2023
There is nothing new under the sun Many were surprised when the United States announced the creation of a Space Force as a separate branch of its army in 2019. The truth is that the concept is not new. The very first Space Force was created back in 1992 by Russia. But it had a […]
The new Giorgia Meloni’s government and Italian Geopolitics (II): The foreign policy of Giorgia Meloni
By Narcís Pallarès-Domènech · 19/12/2022
In the first installment of this series we defined the geopolitical scenario where the new Italian government will have to deploy its foreign policy strategy. We can now move on to dealing with the priorities of Meloni’s government and its foreign policy agenda. Giorgia Meloni’s foreign policy Foreign policy is a key point for the […]
The new Giorgia Meloni government and Italian Geopolitics (I): the roots of Italian foreign policy
By Narcís Pallarès-Domènech · 10/12/2022
New Italian government and new political cycle. The new Italian government led by Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the right-wing Fratelli d’Itàlia (FDI), represents a historical political shift. Her arrival at the executive has begun a new political cycle in the Italian Republic that could represent a new era, comparable to the arrival of Silvio […]
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 […]
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 […]