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Democracy and citizenship

Monument The Mother of the Emigrant in Gijón. Photo: R.A (CC BY 2.0)
Democracy and citizenship Analyses

The weaknesses of Spanish emigration

The Spaniards who have emigrated to other countries since the economic crisis have done so under worse conditions than other recent emigrants from the rest of Southern Europe.

By Carmen González Enríquez
24 Jan 2018 //
15 mins Reading time
Provisional results of the regional elections in Catalonia. Source: Generalitat de Catalunya
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

Catalonia secessionist parties regain control of the region’s parliament

The election clearly showed the depth of pro-independence sentiment and the profound polarisation of society.

By William Chislett
22 Dec 2017 //
5 mins Reading time
The geopolitics of sexual harassment. TIME Person of the Year 2017: the silence breakers against sexual harassment. Image via Time magazine.
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

The geopolitics of sexual harassment

The sexual harassment of women has made its way onto the global agenda. What has started in the US could start to have geopolitical ramifications.

By Andrés Ortega
19 Dec 2017 //
5 mins Reading time
A time of general distrust. Photo: Ricky Leong / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

A time of general distrust

Distrust permeates our societies: distrust in governments, in parliaments, in the news media, and even corporations have lost ground in this respect.

By Andrés Ortega
24 Oct 2017 //
5 mins Reading time
Not everything has gone badly in Spain. Photo: Supermariolxpt /Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Elcano Blog
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

Not everything has gone badly in Spain

In times of national angst, it is easy to become despondent and fall prey to the false belief that everything is going wrong in Spain.

By William Chislett
04 Oct 2017 //
4 mins Reading time
Spain: reasons behind the prolonged absence of anti-European and xenophobic views
Influence and image of Spain Analyses

Spain: reasons behind the prolonged absence of anti-European and xenophobic views

The recent crisis has been a litmus test of Spain’s Europeanism. There has been neither a surge of Euroscepticism nor of anti-immigration sentiment, although the so-called ‘naïf Europeanism’ which used to exist in the country is no longer there either.

By Salvador Llaudes
26 Jun 2017 //
6 mins Reading time
Facebook's new and unsettling mission. Presidio Modelo (Isla de la Juventud, Cuba). Photo: Foto: Friman via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Elcano Blog
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

Facebook’s new and unsettling mission: building a global community

In a 5,800-word declaration, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook aspired ‘to build the social infrastructure for a global community’.

By Andrés Ortega
28 Feb 2017 //
5 mins Reading time
High-Level Review of Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2015. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
International Security Analyses

Eight recommendations for the II National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security

The II National Action Plan for the implementation of Resolution 1325, currently being prepared by the Spanish Government, should build on lessons learnt and include specific measures and best practices if it aims to achieve any advancement in the women, peace and security agenda.

By María Solanas
20 Dec 2016 //
21 mins Reading time
Delayed reaction to '68. Joan Baez and Bob Dylan during the Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C (1963). Photo: Rowland Scherman (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration) via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). Elcano Blog
Democracy and citizenship Experts Comments

Delayed reaction to ’68

Something began in 1968 that would later gather steam in the 1970s and subsequently. And this is what a section of western societies are now rejecting.

By Andrés Ortega
13 Dec 2016 //
4 mins Reading time

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