The Prime Minister of Japan, conservative Shinzo Abe, announced last November 18 the dissolution of the House of Representatives of the Diet (lower house of the Japanese Parliament) and called for early general elections to be held on December 18. It is highly unlikely that the Japanese political landscape will change in such a short period of time as much as to make the coalition government headed by Abe, made up by the historic Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Buddhist party Komeito, lose their majority – currently overwhelming – in the House of Representatives. According to the polls, the LDP would reduce its parliamentary representation by 55 seats maximum, allowing for the comfortable survival of the ruling coalition.
/10.10.14/.- La revista Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político, editada por la Fundación FAES y dirigida por su secretario general, Javier Zarzalejos, publica este mes su número 44. En la nota editorial, FAES aboga por “reafirmar el valor de la democracia representativa”, entre otras cuestiones, “para enfrentar las tentaciones populista, buenista y nacionalista”.
Nobody should be surprised by the barbarism unleashed by the jihadist Islamic Army of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), now the Islamic State (IS). Unfortunately, history – barbarism – repeats itself. Something similar happened in the 2003-2005 biennium. And there stands the United States, with a Barack Obama who seems to have renounced world leadership in security and defence issues and only takes decisions – selective bombings or rearming of Kurdish militias – making a virtue of necessity. An America which, incidentally, exceedingly praised the so-called 'Arab Spring' and armed the opponents of Bashar al-Asad without due precautions. They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind. Not to mention a European Union without ideology, politics, army, or budget to guarantee the security...
'China and Russia are as close as teeth and lips', Li Hui, Chinese Ambassador in Moscow, has stated referring to the increasingly close and intense collaboration between the two countries. The sanctions imposed to Russia by the West have strengthened the cooperation between the two countries in economic, political and military matters. Despite their historical disagreements and mutual mistrust during the Cold War, China and Russia have much in common: they share the modernitarian model (modern authoritarian regimes under the guidance of a single party undermined by corruption and cronyism), as Josef Joffe has already said; both are members of the BRICS, and they have nearly identical economic interests in Latin America, Central Asia and Africa. But more important is the fact that they...
/04.07.14/.- This morning, the 2014 FAES Campus ‘The Atlantic basin: Challenges and Opportunities’ course, directed by Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, started with a roundtable in which Mikuláš Dzurinda, former Prime Minister and President of Slovakia, and Simon Serfaty, Senior Professor of Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, took part. They were introduced by Charles Powell, Elcano Royal Institute Director, and they addressed the situation of the Transatlantic relations and the future of the Atlantic community.
ÁNGEL RIVEROLa socialdemocracia maniatada (LUDOLFO PARAMIO) ÁNGEL RIVEROLa crisis de la socialdemocracia: ¿qué crisis? (IGNACIO URQUIZU) JORGE DEL PALACIOEl laberinto republicano. La democracia española y sus enemigos (1931-1936) (MANUEL ÁLVAREZ TARDÍO Y FERNANDO DEL REY) LEAH BONNÍNAños lentos (FERNANDO ARAMBURU) ALFREDO CRESPO ALCÁZARLa independencia de Escocia. El autogobierno y el cambio de la política de la Unión (MICHAEL KEATING) JAVIER RESTÁNLa escuela que necesitamos (E. D. HIRSCH) IGNACIO BISBE TOSATThe Revenge of Geography: What the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate (ROBERT D. KAPLAN) JORGE PÉREZ ALONSOThe Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court (JEFFREY TOOBIN) ROBERTO INCLÁNSomos información La nueva ciencia de lo intangible (ANTXÓN SARASQUETA) JOSÉ RAMÓN PIN ARBOLEDASEl nuevo directivo público. Claves de liderazgo para la gestión pública (ANTONIO NÚÑEZ MARTÍN)
Veinte años después de la masacre estudiantil de Tiananmen perpetrada por los militares bajo las órdenes del Partido Comunista, todo ha cambiado en China aunque nada haya cambiado. Lo que resulta visible, las grandes ciudades, han cambiado sin duda profundamente; sin embargo, lo que permanece en gran medida invisible, el campo sucio y pobre y la penetrante represión política parecen inmutables. Veinte años después de la masacre de Tiananmen, en China aún está prohibido siquiera mencionar este tema. Oficialmente, no sucedió nada en la plaza de Tiananmen de Pekín en junio de 1989.
ESPERANZA AGUIRREPalabras de presentación de La ciudad en la cima (MARTÍN ALONSO)MARIO RAMOS VERALa identidad en democracia (AMY GUTMANN)ANTONIO CHINCHETRUCuba: la batalla de las ideas (CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER)JAVIER CREMADESChina y sus libertades (ENRIQUE COLLAZO)MIGUEL GILUna tentación totalitaria, Educación para la Ciudadanía (JESÚS TRILLO-FIGUEROA)
Experience shows that countries which open their economies to foreign trade and dismantle their protectionist structures achieve significant welfare gains. China, India, Vietnam and South Korea have all learned this lesson, and as a result have offered substantial improvements in living standards to millions of people who formerly lived in misery under regimes with self-sufficient economies.
11.28.2014. The Prime Minister of Japan, conservative Shinzo Abe, announced last November 18 the dissolution of the House of Representatives of the Diet (lower house of the Japanese Parliament) and called for early general elections to be held on December 18. It is highly unlikely that the Japanese political landscape will change in such a short period of time as much as to make the coalition government headed by Abe, made up by the historic Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Buddhist party Komeito, lose their majority – currently overwhelming – in the House of Representatives. According to the polls, the LDP would reduce its parliamentary representation by 55 seats maximum, allowing for the comfortable survival of the ruling coalition.
10.10.2014. La revista Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político, editada por la Fundación FAES y dirigida por su secretario general, Javier Zarzalejos, publica este mes su número 44. En la nota editorial, FAES aboga por “reafirmar el valor de la democracia representativa”, entre otras cuestiones, “para enfrentar las tentaciones populista, buenista y nacionalista”.
10.08.2014. Nobody should be surprised by the barbarism unleashed by the jihadist Islamic Army of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), now the Islamic State (IS). Unfortunately, history – barbarism – repeats itself. Something similar happened in the 2003-2005 biennium. And there stands the United States, with a Barack Obama who seems to have renounced world leadership in security and defence issues and only takes decisions – selective bombings or rearming of Kurdish militias – making a virtue of necessity. An America which, incidentally, exceedingly praised the so-called 'Arab Spring' and armed the opponents of Bashar al-Asad without due precautions. They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind. Not to mention a European Union without ideology, politics, army, or budget to guarantee the security...
09.17.2014. 'China and Russia are as close as teeth and lips', Li Hui, Chinese Ambassador in Moscow, has stated referring to the increasingly close and intense collaboration between the two countries. The sanctions imposed to Russia by the West have strengthened the cooperation between the two countries in economic, political and military matters. Despite their historical disagreements and mutual mistrust during the Cold War, China and Russia have much in common: they share the modernitarian model (modern authoritarian regimes under the guidance of a single party undermined by corruption and cronyism), as Josef Joffe has already said; both are members of the BRICS, and they have nearly identical economic interests in Latin America, Central Asia and Africa. But more important is the fact that they...
07.04.2014. This morning, the 2014 FAES Campus ‘The Atlantic basin: Challenges and Opportunities’ course, directed by Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, started with a roundtable in which Mikuláš Dzurinda, former Prime Minister and President of Slovakia, and Simon Serfaty, Senior Professor of Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, took part. They were introduced by Charles Powell, Elcano Royal Institute Director, and they addressed the situation of the Transatlantic relations and the future of the Atlantic community.
01.01.2013. ÁNGEL RIVEROLa socialdemocracia maniatada (LUDOLFO PARAMIO) ÁNGEL RIVEROLa crisis de la socialdemocracia: ¿qué crisis? (IGNACIO URQUIZU) JORGE DEL PALACIOEl laberinto republicano. La democracia española y sus enemigos (1931-1936) (MANUEL ÁLVAREZ TARDÍO Y FERNANDO DEL REY) LEAH BONNÍNAños lentos (FERNANDO ARAMBURU) ALFREDO CRESPO ALCÁZARLa independencia de Escocia. El autogobierno y el cambio de la política de la Unión (MICHAEL KEATING) JAVIER RESTÁNLa escuela que necesitamos (E. D. HIRSCH) IGNACIO BISBE TOSATThe Revenge of Geography: What the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate (ROBERT D. KAPLAN) JORGE PÉREZ ALONSOThe Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court (JEFFREY TOOBIN) ROBERTO INCLÁNSomos información La nueva cie...
06.01.2009. Veinte años después de la masacre estudiantil de Tiananmen perpetrada por los militares bajo las órdenes del Partido Comunista, todo ha cambiado en China aunque nada haya cambiado. Lo que resulta visible, las grandes ciudades, han cambiado sin duda profundamente; sin embargo, lo que permanece en gran medida invisible, el campo sucio y pobre y la penetrante represión política parecen inmutables. Veinte años después de la masacre de Tiananmen, en China aún está prohibido siquiera mencionar este tema. Oficialmente, no sucedió nada en la plaza de Tiananmen de Pekín en junio de 1989.
01.01.2009. ESPERANZA AGUIRREPalabras de presentación de La ciudad en la cima (MARTÍN ALONSO)MARIO RAMOS VERALa identidad en democracia (AMY GUTMANN)ANTONIO CHINCHETRUCuba: la batalla de las ideas (CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER)JAVIER CREMADESChina y sus libertades (ENRIQUE COLLAZO)MIGUEL GILUna tentación totalitaria, Educación para la Ciudadanía (JESÚS TRILLO-FIGUEROA)
05.31.2006. Experience shows that countries which open their economies to foreign trade and dismantle their protectionist structures achieve significant welfare gains. China, India, Vietnam and South Korea have all learned this lesson, and as a result have offered substantial improvements in living standards to millions of people who formerly lived in misery under regimes with self-sufficient economies.
