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Ana Palacio

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Past:
  • Project Syndicate
  • Social Europe
  • Haaretz.com

Past articles by Ana:

The Shakeup the World Bank Needs

Ana Palacio urges the institution’s next leader to carry out the several key reforms needed to keep it relevant. → Read More

Can the west woo Africa?

The west’s lack of engagement with Africa in recent years left behind a vacuum China and Russia have eagerly filled. → Read More

The Arctic Heats Up

Ana Palacio warns that efforts by Russia and China to expand their presence in the High North carry serious risks. → Read More

Europe’s Energy Myopia

Ana Palacio laments the EU’s failure to pursue a forward-looking, unified approach to the current crisis. → Read More

The Failures of 2021 by Ana Palacio

Ana Palacio laments that the pandemic, the climate crisis, and geopolitical tensions all became worse. → Read More

How International Institutions Die by Ana Palacio

Ana Palacio argues that even if the postwar multilateral organizations are still essential, they may not survive. → Read More

The EU’s Post-Merkel Void by Ana Palacio

The German-led strategy of waiting until desperate times enable desperate measures has kept the European Union intact, but has also enabled the bloc to avoid taking clear stances on important issues. No matter who succeeds Angela Merkel as German chancellor, EU leaders are going to have to start making real decisions. → Read More

A Modest Hope for the Post-Trump World Order by Ana Palacio

As consequential as the upcoming US election is, the relentless hype has fueled expectations that it must be followed by some grand or revolutionary transformation. A far more plausible hope is that, once the dust settles, international relations gets back to basics. → Read More

Forgetting Auschwitz by Ana Palacio

75 years after the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, anti-Semitism is again on the rise across the Western world. This trend – and the weak response to it – is a harbinger of democratic decay. → Read More

The Twilight of the Global Order by Ana Palacio

The recent G7 summit in Biarritz signaled a broader shift in international governance away from constructive cooperation and toward vague discussions and ad hoc solutions. The conclusion of the summit could be a marker of the world order’s future – ending not with a bang, but with a whimper. → Read More

The European Parliament’s Misguided Ambitions by Ana Palacio

The European Union's core institutions are undergoing leadership successions while besieged by well-known internal and external challenges. And yet, at a time when the EU desperately needs to be able to act effectively, it seems simply to be engaging in more political jockeying. → Read More

Europe’s Partnership with Morocco by Ana Palacio

Morocco has lately been strengthening its ties with the rest of Africa, through a combination of religious outreach and commercial linkages. For Europe, this represents an important opportunity to build on and benefit from a relationship that has progressed significantly in the past 20 years. → Read More

American Power Without Wisdom by Ana Palacio

Over the last seven decades, US global leadership has been underpinned by a delicate balance between persuasion and raw power. By relying solely on force to advance US interests, President Donald Trump is undermining America's international position and courting catastrophe. → Read More

The EU’s Four Challenges by Ana Palacio

Whatever the next European Parliament's composition, the imperative will be the same: EU institutions must trade ambition for humility, focusing their attention not on their own power or status, but rather on upgrading and fortifying the project for which they claim to stand. If they fail, the road ahead will only become more perilous. → Read More

Democracy vs. Disinformation by Ana Palacio

Efforts to combat disinformation in the West have so far focused on tactical approaches that target the "supply side" of the problem. To succeed, they must be accompanied by efforts that tackle the demand side of the problem: the factors that make liberal democratic societies today so susceptible to manipulation. → Read More

What Venezuela Tells Europe About Russia by Ana Palacio

Russia's enduring support for Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president whose legitimacy is now being challenged, underscores the extent to which the Kremlin, buoyed by its success in Syria, is doubling down on its role as global disruptor-in-chief. But, unlike in Syria, Russia's resolve in Venezuela seems to be weakening. → Read More

The Transatlantic Leadership Void by Ana Palacio

Since the end of World War II, the United States, as the dominant European (and world) power, has piloted transatlantic security. But under President Donald Trump, the US isn’t doing much leading, and it is not always even clear who in Trump’s administration is really in charge. → Read More

The Hollowing Out of the G20 by Ana Palacio

Since helping to mitigate the global financial crisis, the G20 has degenerated from a platform for action to a forum for discussion. In the age of Donald Trump, it could sink even further, becoming a vehicle for legitimating illegal behavior, from Russia's aggression in Ukraine to Saudi Arabia's murder of a journalist. → Read More

Did the Global Order Die with Khashoggi? by Ana Palacio

A world in which all that matters is the deal is one where citizens do not know what to expect from their leaders and countries do not know what to expect from their allies. Such an unpredictable and unstable world is not one that we should blindly accept. → Read More

Europe’s Critical Election by Ana Palacio

Ahead of the European Parliament election in May 2019, nationalist parties across Europe are unifying behind a message that is clear, forceful, and, for many, compelling. If Europe's defenders are to win, they will need to offer a vision that is similarly powerful – and not hide behind French President Emmanuel Macron. → Read More