Barcelona Centre for international Affairs

CIDOB is a diverse and independent think tank located in Barcelona, focusing on the research and analysis of global issues. Established in 1973 as the International Documentation Centre of Barcelona, it became a private foundation in 1979.

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Algeria’s outdated strategy: lessons from a fortress mentality

3 weeks ago | cidob.org | Francis Ghiles |Francis Ghilès

Algeria’s strategic doctrine has lost its shine. The country has the challenge of confronting the new geopolitical games in the region from a weaker position than it once had. In the midst of a diplomatic crisis with France, Algiers sees how Morocco has built a solid network of economic friends across Africa and security links with Israel, and how Russia has turned Libya, Algeria’s troubled eastern neighbour into the operational hub of its ever-growing African cluster.
Drivers of economic risk and scenarios for the EU

2 months ago | cidob.org | Elvire Fabry |Sylvie Matelly

REGROUP Focus Paper No. 3 (2025)Faced with unprecedented economic, technological and geopolitical challenges, the European Union (EU) must strengthen its resilience and influence to remain competitive in a rapidly changing world. This focus paper analyses the main economic risks that could affect the EU between now and 2035.
Breaking the molds of Geopolitical Europe

2 months ago | cidob.org | Pol Morillas

*This article was previously published in El País. In the context of growing transatlantic divergence—and internal division within the EU between integrationists and advocates of a Europe of nations—differentiated integration at various speeds can help unlock reforms and mechanisms for a geopolitical Europe with greater capacity in security and defense. There are crises that happen suddenly—Lehman Brothers, pandemics, or wars—that are met with extraordinary measures.
Romper los moldes de la Europa geopolítica

2 months ago | cidob.org | Pol Morillas

*Este artículo se publicó previamente en El PaísEn un contexto de creciente distanciamiento transatlántico —y de división interna en la UE entre integracionistas y defensores de la Europa de las naciones—, una integración diferenciada a distintas velocidades puede ayudar a desbloquear las reformas y mecanismos para una Europa geopolítica con una mayor capacidad en seguridad y defensa.
Europe is trapped by liberal imperialism

Feb 15, 2025 | cidob.org | Francis Ghiles |Francis Ghilès

European leaders are trapped in a strategic impasse. Donald Trump’s return to office is the latest consequence of a long-lasting failure of American and Western interventions with disastrous results in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Gaza. Inventing a new internationalism which is attuned to the realities of the world is more than ever necessary if Europe is to confront the huge challenges posed by climate change, the nuclear arms race and militarised artificial intelligence.
Trump: ¿por qué esta vez es diferente?

Feb 13, 2025 | cidob.org | Pol Morillas

*Este artículo se publicó previamente en La VanguardiaEl regreso de Donald Trump a la Casa Blanca marca el inicio de una nueva ola nacional-populista. A diferencia de su primera presidencia, esta vez el peligro es mayor, respaldado por un tecnoautoritarismo impulsado por líderes de empresas tecnológicas y un escenario internacional de grandes potencias con mentalidad neoimperial.
Una nueva oportunidad para el acuerdo UE-Mercosur en tiempos convulsos

Jan 19, 2025 | cidob.org | Anna Ayuso |Investigadora Sénior |Investigadora Sénior Asociada

El nuevo acuerdo entre la Unión Europea y el Mercosur ha recibido respuestas desiguales: los entusiastas señalan las oportunidades para relanzar un comercio en retroceso y su valor geopolítico en un contexto global de tensiones competitivas; sin embargo, el campo ha vuelto a salir a las calles defendiendo sus intereses y el ecologismo cuestiona su sostenibilidad. ¿Es posible llegar a un acuerdo o la UE seguirá la estela del repliegue de Washington?
Introducción. Desigualdad algorítmica: gobernanza, representación y derechos en la IA

Jan 17, 2025 | cidob.org | Daniel Innerarity

Daniel Innerarity, catedrático de Filosofía Política, investigador Ikerbasque, Universidad del País Vasco; titular de la cátedra de Inteligencia Artificial y Democracia, Instituto Europeo de Florencia. [email protected]. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4307-8468 Carme Colomina Saló, investigadora sénior y editora, CIDOB; profesora asociada, College of Europe, (Bélgica). [email protected].
Disinformation and EU Enlargement: Instability and the Battle of Narratives in the Eastern Neighbourhood and the Balkans

Jan 15, 2025 | cidob.org | Javier Borràs

Disinformation has a damaging impact on both the European Union enlargement process and the internal image the EU has of itself, and the external image it conveys to the world. This CIDOB Briefing presents the main conclusions of the seminar “Disinformation in Enlargement Countries: Sowing Instability, Distorting EU’s Perception”, which was organised by CIDOB on 4 October 2024 and funded by the CERV (Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values) Programme of the European Commission.
Algorithmic inequality: governance, representation and rights in AI

Jan 14, 2025 | cidob.org | Carme Colomina Salo |Daniel Innerarity

Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals nº 138Artificial intelligence (AI) and the breakneck pace at which it is evolving present a technological, economic, social and geopolitical challenge that the major global powers are approaching from different, sometimes conflicting, strategic perspectives. We are witnessing a process of algorithmic colonisation of the public sphere and decision-making, in which democracy and AI impact each other in multiple ways.