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Crisis and EU foreign policy / Policy Brief

Explaining Spain's unfulfilled potential

12/01/2010 By Richard Youngs

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With Spain having taken over the EU presidency, FRIDE's team of researchers offers a stock-take of Spanish foreign policy. Examining eight areas of Spain's external relations, we offer some guidelines for the improvement of the government’s foreign policy.

Richard Youngs provides an introductory summary to the series of Policy Briefs, outlining the reasons for their realisation and the main conclusions that can be drawn from the different geographical and thematic analyses.

 

 

• Spain's War in Afghanistan, Edward Burke
• Why does Spain not have a policy for Latin America?, Susanne Gratius
• Spain's Diminished Policy in the Mediterranean, Kristina Kausch
• Spain in Africa: The Reluctant Newcomer, Stefan Meyer
• Spanish Development Policies: The Obstacles to Progress, Nils-Sjard Schulz
• Spanish Foreign Policy in the Balkans: Wasted Potential, Sofía Sebastián
• Does Spain have an Ostpolitik?, Natalia Shapovalova
• Immigration and Foreign Policy: The Economic Crisis and its Challenges, Laura Tedesco

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Keywords

EU Spain

Bio author: Richard Youngs

Democracy promotion. EU foreign policy.