Europe
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 […]
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 […]
The Energy Crisis and the Renewables Vanity
By Oriol Parera · 18/01/2022
It is too early to say whether the emerging energy crisis will be similar in magnitude to the 1973 oil crisis, or whether it will lead to changes in global energy strategies. That crisis highlighted the problems affecting many states in terms of energy dependence and drove radical changes in energy supply and production. If […]
Russia and Ukraine: the threat of war is real
By Abel Riu · 24/12/2021
In October 2021, the CIA began to issue alarm signals regarding a build-up of Russian troops, weapons, and military equipment in the border area with Ukraine. The situation is reminiscent of spring 2021, with the difference that this time the size of the troop mobilization is much larger, with 122,000 troops some 200km from the […]
The geoeconomics of the supply shock beyond the pandemic
By Miquel Vila · 07/12/2021
Geopolitics often analyses how polities design, compete and secure access and transport of resources, armies, and people across territories. That is to say, logistics. Therefore, the current global supply chain crisis will indisputably impact the geopolitical realm, going way beyond the challenge of dealing with empty shelves during Christmas. Mainstream analysts still insist that we […]