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NATO in Cold War dream undermines global peace, stability

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit, which was held on July 11 and 12, once again revealed the organization’s Cold War mentality. It issued a communique that distorted China’s position and policies and deliberately smeared China, exposing NATO’s dangerous attempt to meddle in affairs beyond its geographical scope, create division, and foment confrontation.

Thinking about intermediate and small cities with a global scope from A Coruña

Liñas de investigación Paradiplomacia

Inspired by Sustainable Development Goal 11 (Sustainable cities and communities) and Goal 17 (Partnerships to achieve the goals) of the 2030 Agenda, this note reflects on how Intermediate and small cities have their own characteristics and capacities to fulfill a global role in a global context in which cities assume a relevant role in the various global agendas (climate change, development, among others).

To reflect on this, here we highlight how networking and collaboration between economic and cultural agents contribute to the external projection and territorial appeal of a city like A Coruña.

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Presentation Tempo Exterior 44: Twenty years of representation of territorial governments in the EU

Liñas de investigación Paradiplomacia Unión Europea
Apartados xeográficos Europa

In this monographic issue of Tempo Exterior several EU practitioners with more than 20 years of experience in the representation of territorial interests towards and in the European institutions and the community decision-making process provide their personal perspective on their practice. Although there has been extensive academic literature on so-called territorial mobilization since the 1980s …

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The Biden Administration and China: Reset or crisis continued, por Robert Matthews

Liñas de investigación Relacións Internacionais
Apartados xeográficos China e o mundo chinés

The election of Pres. Joeseph R Biden occurred at a time when the global power and influence of the US has diminshed considerably from its position after WWII. The dramatic shift—and even a certain crisis of confidence in the US– owes much to the gradual but systemic erosion over the past several decades of its international  economic and military  role, along  with emergence  more recently of serious international rivals in both regards. In addtion,  the proximate factor of former President Donald J. Trump’s go-it-alone, America first, neo-isolationism has done its part to acelerate a diplomatic deterioration. 

Dialogue in Barbados: will it yield results?

Liñas de investigación Relacións Internacionais
Apartados xeográficos Latinoamérica

A new process of international dialogue to solve the crisis in Venezuela is taking place in the Caribbean island of Barbados. After the frustration caused by the failure of previous negotiations, especially the Santo Domingo talks in 2018, and the uncertainties surrounding the dialogue process initiated in Oslo in 2019, will the Barbados round produce …

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The Armed Forces in the Venezuelan crisis

Liñas de investigación Relacións Internacionais
Apartados xeográficos Latinoamérica

The role of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) in the current Venezuelan political and institutional crisis has been the subject of a raft of analyses, public statements, Tweets, and expectations. Essentially, the FANB are considered key to balancing or even unblocking the political and institutional course of future Venezuela.