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.
On 14 April, the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the European Union, gathered in Luxembourg, gave the green light to designate 2015 as the European Year for Development. Since 1957, the EU’s cooperation policy has been increasingly broadened until reaching more than 130 developing countries. Currently, the EU, together with its Member States, constitutes the largest giver of Official Aid—56,500 million euros in 2013, more than half of the world total—. The EU is also the leading humanitarian aid donor and, only in 2011, assisted more than 150 million people in 80 countries.
It is said that China, boosted by an accelerated economic development, is practically unstoppable. The great emerging power, they say. Maybe. But it could also happen—remember what happened to Germany throughout the first decades of the 20th century—that a great power is weakened by its increasing power. And it could also happen that China’s neighbours and competitors—Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam or India—reach a sort of agreement—either implicit or explicit—to—politically, commercially and territorially speaking—stop the Asian giant. In any case, China is there. And it follows its course. Thus, a question comes up: can we consider the hypothesis of a China that, economically and commercially speaking, will “colonise” the United States? A plausible...
Fifty years ago, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by the bullets fired by a young communist sympathiser, Lee Harvey Oswald. It was then that the Kennedy myth emerged. The myth of a life cut short at full maturity, of a progressive presidency too soon interrupted and of a thwarted American dream. However, half a century after the Dallas assassination and thanks to both the historical perspective achieved over time and to several research works of very high historiographical value, it is possible to separate myth from reality.
The coup d'état in Egypt perpetrated by its armed forces has raised a number of issues regarding the evolution of those States that suffered the already withered process of change termed as "Arab Spring".
ENRIQUE MÚGICA HERZOGCuando el tiempo nos alcanza. Memorias (1940-1982) (ALFONSO GUERRA)JUAN MANUEL GIL CELMAMemorias. La mujer mas poderosa de los Estados Unidos (MADELEINE ALBRIGHT)JAVIER ZARZALEJOSEl nuevo terrorismo islamista. del 11-S al 11-M (FERNANDO REINARES Y ANTONIO ELORZA)IGNACIO FERNÁNDEZ BARGUESUna paradoja histórica (JOSÉ VARELA ORTEGA)JUAN MANUEL GILLa inmigración musulmana en Europa (BERTA ÁLVAREZ-MIRANDA / ELISA CHULIÁ)
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.
04.28.2014. On 14 April, the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the European Union, gathered in Luxembourg, gave the green light to designate 2015 as the European Year for Development. Since 1957, the EU’s cooperation policy has been increasingly broadened until reaching more than 130 developing countries. Currently, the EU, together with its Member States, constitutes the largest giver of Official Aid—56,500 million euros in 2013, more than half of the world total—. The EU is also the leading humanitarian aid donor and, only in 2011, assisted more than 150 million people in 80 countries.
04.03.2014. It is said that China, boosted by an accelerated economic development, is practically unstoppable. The great emerging power, they say. Maybe. But it could also happen—remember what happened to Germany throughout the first decades of the 20th century—that a great power is weakened by its increasing power. And it could also happen that China’s neighbours and competitors—Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam or India—reach a sort of agreement—either implicit or explicit—to—politically, commercially and territorially speaking—stop the Asian giant. In any case, China is there. And it follows its course. Thus, a question comes up: can we consider the hypothesis of a China that, economically and commercially speaking, will “colonise” the United States? A plausible...
11.22.2013. Fifty years ago, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by the bullets fired by a young communist sympathiser, Lee Harvey Oswald. It was then that the Kennedy myth emerged. The myth of a life cut short at full maturity, of a progressive presidency too soon interrupted and of a thwarted American dream. However, half a century after the Dallas assassination and thanks to both the historical perspective achieved over time and to several research works of very high historiographical value, it is possible to separate myth from reality.
07.24.2013. The coup d'état in Egypt perpetrated by its armed forces has raised a number of issues regarding the evolution of those States that suffered the already withered process of change termed as "Arab Spring".
10.01.2004. ENRIQUE MÚGICA HERZOGCuando el tiempo nos alcanza. Memorias (1940-1982) (ALFONSO GUERRA)JUAN MANUEL GIL CELMAMemorias. La mujer mas poderosa de los Estados Unidos (MADELEINE ALBRIGHT)JAVIER ZARZALEJOSEl nuevo terrorismo islamista. del 11-S al 11-M (FERNANDO REINARES Y ANTONIO ELORZA)IGNACIO FERNÁNDEZ BARGUESUna paradoja histórica (JOSÉ VARELA ORTEGA)JUAN MANUEL GILLa inmigración musulmana en Europa (BERTA ÁLVAREZ-MIRANDA / ELISA CHULIÁ)
