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Wake up, Europe!
Ignacio Cosidó, Director Centre for the Global Common Good D onald Trump returned yesterday to the White House. Many European leaders...
West African Cultural Day: impact, reflections and culture as a vector for peace
By Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino and Beatriz de León Cobo On 4 November, the Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum of the Central Africa Observatory for...
Where are you going, Europe?
By Enrique Fojón, analyst for International Security Center The end of the period known as the Cold War marked the beginning of the...
Lessons from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza: a warning to NATO countries
By Javier Gil Guerrero CBCG collaborator. Researcher, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra. The West has been...
Orban, the European Trump
By Juan Francisco Carmona is a collaborating analyst at the International Security Centre of the Francisco de Vitoria University. It is...
Techno-geopolitics
By Enrique Fojón. Analyst at the International Security Centre of the Francisco de Vitoria University Technology, in fact, is one of the...
What prospects for the fight against terrorism and human rights in the Sahel?
Publication of the 3rd Sahel-Europe Dialogue Forum May 14th, 2024 The third Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum was held in Madrid (Spain) on the...
How can the international community and regional organisations support military transitions towards democratic and transparent processes?
Publication of the 3rd Sahel-Europe Dialogue Forum April 30th, 2024 The third Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum was held in Madrid (Spain) on...
The War
Technical specifications La guerra Federico Aznar Fernández-Montesinos Editorial El viejo topo 567 pages Review "War" is a theoretical...
The blood that moves the world
Gabriel Cortina Datasheet: The blood that moves the world Miguel Golmayo Editorial Ariel 582 pages Since the late 19th century, when...
The first 45 days of Milei
29 January, 2024 Javier Milei won the elections in Argentina on November 19, 2023 with 55.65% of the votes in a second round of...
Ecuador: An ideal laboratory for shock therapy?
25/1/2024 Ecuador does not stop inaugurating its “first times”. After closing 2023 being the most violent country in Latin America[1],...
Iran's options in the Middle East scenario
Gabriel Cortina The Middle East is one of the scenarios where the game dynamics of the global geopolitical reality take place, and Iran...
Cubanthropy: a compass post
Armando Chaguaceda Nor is a village refounded, General, as a palate is installed. Iván de la Nuez Cuban essayist and curator Iván de la...
Turkish hyperactivity
Enrique Fojón Lagoa Turkey's current geopolitical prominence appears to be that of a vigorous strategic actor. With its expansionist...
NATO in the face of strategic competition
Francisco Javier Ayuela Azcárate The current geopolitical situation is dominated by strategic competition between the major powers. The...
Mexican civic sphere recolonized?
Carlos Arturo Martínez Carmona The "Fourth Transformation" (4T) consists of the national project of the President of the Mexican Republic...
Elections in Taiwan: future prospects
Por Álvaro Las elecciones presidenciales del pasado 13 de enero en Taiwán han sido las primeras del “año electoral más importante de la...
The world order as a reference and a question mark
Enrique Fojón Lagoa Most Western thinking in International Relations (IR) can be considered to be dominated by the view that the world...
Event: "2024: Election Year. Threats and possibilities."
The Center for the Global Common Good is organizing a seminar to study the different possibilities and challenges facing the American...
Event: "Seminar Two years of the invasion of Ukraine: the forgotten war"
The Center for the Global Common Good is organizing a seminar to mark the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is...
Event: "SPANISH SCHOOL OF THOUGHT DAY"
The Latin American Observatory of the Francisco de Vitoria University organizes the Spanish School of Thought Day. Throughout the day our...
Event: BOOK PRESENTATION: THE COMMON GOOD IN CLASSICAL AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY
On Wednesday, March 13 at 5:00 pm will take place the presentation of the book: "The common good in classical and modern philosophy". Its...
Event: “European Convergence”
The Economics Observatory of the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria is organizing a session with Manuel Pizarro, president of the Royal...
Event: SECURITY 2024: WHAT DOES BUSINESSES CARE ABOUT?
The Centre for the Global Common Good in collaboration with Prosegur Research is organising on 20 February at 5pm at CO-Studio (C/...
Ecuador: An ideal laboratory for shock therapy?
JANUARY 25, 2024 Ecuador does not stop inaugurating its “first times”. After closing 2023 being the most violent country in Latin...
III Sahel-Europe Dialogue Forum
20 September 2023 From 10 to 11 July 2023, the third edition of the Sahel-Europe Dialogue Forum took place. This academic forum aims to...
Conclusions of the second Sahel-Europe dialogue forum
Publication of the II Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum 28 October 2022 On 14, 15 and 16 July 2022, the Francisco de Vitoria University Centre...
Best practices for cross-border threats in the Sahel: crime and counterterrorism
Publication of the II Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum 27 October 2022 On the 14th, 15th and 16th of July 2022, the International Security...
Strategic Priorities for the Comprehensive Stabilisation of the Sahel: Voices of Civil Society
Publication of the II Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum 27 October 2022 On the 14th, 15th and 16th of July 2022, the International Security...
The role of the Maghreb countries in the stabilisation of the Sahel. Opportunities and challenges for the Sahel-Maghreb-Europe axis.
Publication du IIème Forum de Dialogue Sahel Europe 25 Octobre 2022 Tras el foro de diálogo Sahel-Europa celebrado los días 15 y 16 de...
New international order in the Sahel: Russia and Turkey. What lessons can we learn from these relationships ?
Publication of the II Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum 16 Octobre 2022 On 14th, 15th and 16th of July 2022, the International Security Centre...
How can disinformation and manipulation be prevented andcountered?
Publication of the II Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum 16 October 2022 On the 14th, 15th and 16th of July 2022, the International Security...
II Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum
On 14, 15 and 16 July 2022, the Centre for International Security of the Francisco de Vitoria University (CSI - UFV) organised the 2nd...
Eight years of international operations in the Sahel: Rethinking the Strategy
Beatriz de León Cobo / Irene Pujol Chica 14 October 2021 On 10 September, the Centre for International Security of the Francisco de...
Central Mali: The Niono Accord, from hope for peace, to aresurgence of conflict
Boubacar Ba and Beatriz de León Cobo 21 September 2021 On 6 October 2020, an armed group stormed the village of Kourmari (Niono circle,...
Event: Eight years of international operations in the Sahel: rethinking strategy
The Conference on Foreign Policy in the Sahel, organised by the Centre for International Security of the Francisco de Vitoria University,...
Conclusions of the Forum: European Strategy for the Sahel
Publication of the First Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum 9 July 2021 The International Security Centre's ambition is to become a European...
Europe-Maghreb-Sahel
Publication of the I Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum 2 July 2021 The geographical proximity of these three regions defines a dynamic set of...
The Sahel as Africa's Strategic Heartland: Security Challenges
Publication of the I Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum 25 June 2021 Following the Sahel-Europe Dialogue Forum on 15 March, the speaker Pedro...
Climate change and its impact on Sahel security
Publication of the I Sahel-Europe Dialogue Forum 18 June 2021 Security in the Mediterranean region is one of the greatest challenges...
Jihadist radicalisation and other destabilising factors in the Sahel
Publication of the 1st Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum 11 June 2021 Since the fall of Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, and since the Tuareg...
Demographics: implications for security in Africa and in Europe
Publication of the 1st Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum 4 June 2021 It is a challenge to discuss the relationship between demography and...
1st Sahel Europe Dialogue Forum
On 15, 22 and 24 March, the first Sahel-Europe Dialogue Forum was held, organised by the Centre for International Security of the...
Donnelly: “The West is yet to understand the paradigm shift in the nature of conflict in the 21st century"
Interview with Chris Donnelly, director of The Institute for Statecraft by Nicolás de Pedro, Associate Fellow at the Instituto de...
Libya, the return of the competition for power
Jorge Torres Almost eight years after the fall of Gaddafi, Libya still does not know peace. The country that was once a land of...
Understanding the Iranian nuclear deal
Juan Del Pozo Berenguer President Trump´s decision to back out of the Iranian nuclear deal last year has had limited impact on the...
Thought and war
Gabriel Cortina Thought is at the very heart of strategy. More than a single doctrine, the strategy that has been successful and has...
China´s spell over Europe; UK embraces OBOR
Juan del Pozo Berenguer With the Belt and Road initiative introduced in late 2013 by Chinese president Xi Jinping, a new...
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