National Pacts in Latin America to Fight Poverty

Reconstructing Lebanon: The Role of the International Community

Keys to the World Economy

2005 European Union – Latin America Decentralised Co-operation Yearbook

7th Spain – Italy Dialogue Forum

Mexico: From the Pre-Campaign Period to the Election of President Calderón (2005-2006)

1st Spain – France Dialogue Forum

Democracy, Decentralisation and Development

Intercultural Citizenship: Political Participation and Muslims

Transnationalism and the Asian business class. Spain, Gibraltar and Andorra

Central Asia: Government, Co-operation and Security

The Africa World

This course is designed as an elective module within the Master’s courses in Development Studies and in International Studies. The classes will be taught by specialists in....

Scholarship for Master’s Studies at the London School of Economics

Academic year 2007-2008 CIDOB Foundation / Caixa Catalunya FoundationThese entities have decided to grant two scholarships to holders of Bachelor’s degrees or higher degrees to broaden their studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The level of studies they must carry out is that of postgraduate, focusing on earning a Master’s (MSC) degree. The scholarship-winn...

2005 Asia-Pacific Yearbook

The second issue of the Asia-Pacific Yearbook comes out in a context of special political and diplomatic activity in the region, stimulated by the challenges that the nuclear aspirations of North Korea and Iran pose for the international community and which also, in both cases, challenge the existing status quo in East Asia and the Middle East. The Yearbook also monitors China’s rapid economic and social transformation and also the future challenges for the continent in the areas of energy, the environment and the prevention of health care emergencies, among many other current issues.

Author: VV.AA.

Researching the Mediterranean

This publication presents an analysis of the situation of Mediterranean and Arab world studies in the United Kingdom and Spain, together with a series of proposals for strengthening research in this field.

Author: British Council, Instituto Europeo del Mediterráneo (IEMed.) y Fundación CIDOB VV.AA.

4th International Seminar on Security and Defence in the Mediterranean

A global view of the large debates on security in the Mediterranean, with special attention given to measures of confidence, are among some of the issues that focus the content of this monograph, which brings together the presentations given in the Seminar on Security and Defence in the Mediterranean, which has been organised by the Ministry of Defence and the CIDOB Foundation since the year 2002.

Author: VV.AA

The Process of Privatisation and Economic Reforms in Morocco: A Historical Review from Independence to the European Neighbourhood Policy

Documentos CIDOB Mediterráneo; 6

The objective of this work is to analyse the structural reforms undertaken by Morocco over the past 25 years, paying close attention to its privatisation programme.

Author: Ángel García Ortiz y Josep Mª Jordán

Biografías Líderes Políticos

Continuously updated 474 biographies to familiarise oneself with the profiles and careers of world political leaders in their dual national and international contexts.

We highlight the profiles of:

Nuri al- Maliki Irak - Primer ministro El proceso de democratización comenzado en Irak tras la invasión y ocupación por el Ejército de Estados Unidos en marzo de 2003 llegó a su término el 20 de mayo de 2006 con la formación del Gobierno de unión nacional presidido por Nuri al-Maliki. Shií laico, pero confesional, del Partido Islámico Dawa, Maliki es un antiguo exiliado y opositor a la dictadura de Saddam Hussein que pretende conseguir éxitos allí donde sus predecesores en los períodos interino y transitorio, los también shiíes Iyad al-Allawi e ibrahim al-Jaafari, fracasaron: desmovilizar a los insurgentes de base sunní, acorralar a los terroristas jihadistas y atajar los ataques sectarios entre shiíes y sunníes, cuya dramática escalada a partir del atentado del 22 de febrero en Samarra ha puesto al país con un pie en una guerra civil de naturaleza religiosa.

José Ramos-Horta Timor-Leste - Primer ministro El hasta entonces ministro de Exteriores de Timor-Leste se convirtió en primer ministro el 10 de julio de 2006. Su nombramiento por el presidente Xanana Gusmão para reemplazar al asediado Mari Alkatiri puso punto y final a la más grave crisis política y de seguridad sufrida por la antigua colonia portuguesa desde su independencia en 2002, tras 24 años de atroz ocupación militar indonesia y dos años y medio de protectorado de la ONU. Personalidad reputada a nivel internacional por el Nobel de la Paz recibido en 1996 en reconocimiento a su trayectoria de luchador diplomático por la causa nacional de los timoreses desde el exilio, José Ramos-Horta ha asumido la jefatura del Gobierno con la obligación de arreglar la complicada madeja de problemas -sociales, económicos, institucionales- que activó el violento caos de la primavera, cuando este país subdesarrollado y dependiente de la ayuda internacional se asomó a una guerra civil.