Pol Morillas Bassedas

Autonomous University of Barcelona | UAB · Departamento de Derecho Público y Ciencias Históricojuridicas

The polls in the race for the White House show that the two main candidates, former President Donald Trump and the Democrats’ Kamala Harris, are running neck and neck. The surprise effect of the assassination attempts on the former and the rapid nomination of the latter (following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal) has subsided, and the presidential...

Les enquestes de la cursa cap a la Casa Blanca mostren un empat entre tots dos candidats: l’expresident Donald Trump i la demòcrata Kamala Harris. Passat l’efecte sorpresa, tant dels intents d’assassinat del primer com de la nominació exprés de la segona –prèvia renúncia del president Joe Biden–, el resultat de les eleccions presidencials és impred...

Las encuestas de la carrera hacia la Casa Blanca muestran un empate entre ambos candidatos: el expresidente Donald Trump y la demócrata Kamala Harris. Pasado el efecto sorpresa, tanto de los intentos de asesinato del primero como de la nominación exprés de la segunda –previa renuncia del presidente Joe Biden–, el resultado de las elecciones preside...

On February 24th 2022, the conflict in Ukraine became a war with global impact. The Russian army’s rapid entry into eastern Ukraine also hastened the breakdown of what remained of the post-Cold War order in Europe. Security architecture paradigms have changed dramatically at both global and European levels. US–China strategic competition, global re...

Como introducción al número conmemorativo del 40 aniversario de Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, este artículo examina la evolución de las relaciones internacionales durante las últimas cuatro décadas, en paralelo a los contenidos de la publicación y en el contexto de la actual crisis del orden (o desorden) internacional: desde el fin de la Gu...

Este artículo parte de la premisa de que los cambios y crisis en el orden internacional requieren un mayor protagonismo de la acción exterior europea. El artículo repasa los debates más recientes sobre la autonomía estratégica, analiza las dificultades para avanzar en este propósito e identifica distintas opciones para reforzar el papel exterior de...

El 24 de febrero de 2022, el conflicto de Ucrania se convirtió en una guerra con un impacto global. La rápida entrada del ejército ruso por el este de Ucrania aceleró también la descomposición del orden posguerra fría que todavía quedaba en pie en el continente europeo. Desde entonces, los paradigmas de la arquitectura de seguridad, tanto global co...

El 24 de febrer de 2022, el conflicte d’Ucraïna es va convertir en una guerra amb un impacte global. La ràpida entrada de l’exèrcit rus per l’est d’Ucraïna va accelerar també la descomposició de l’ordre postguerra freda que encara restava al continent europeu. Des d’aleshores, els paradigmes de l’arquitectura de seguretat, tant global com europea,...

Review of the book. Esther Barbé (dir.). Las normas internacionales ante la crisis del orden liberal. Tecnos, 2021. 176 págs.

Relations between southern European member states have often been marked by a loose cooperation or, worse, by logics of competition. Precisely when regional groupings within the EU are increasingly shaping the agenda, these dynamics have hindered the capacity of France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain to pursue shared interests and objectives, wh...

En un context de crisis successives, l’última de les quals la sanitària i econòmica de la COVID-19, aquest article analitza les quatre fractures principals a les que s’enfronta la UE (de valors, de solidaritat, institucional i de transformació internacional) per a les quals s’imposen tres mesures si es vol assolir un nou ordre europeu: més democràc...

Over the past two decades, the European Union (EU) has provided assistance and is unequivocally committed to the European perspective of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The EU strategy has evolved from a top-down approach to democratization and statebuilding in the 2000s towards a more pragmatic approach that seeks to foster resilience. However, BiH...

Is the new intergovernmentalism well positioned to explain the inter-institutional dynamics of EU external action, as reflected by the policy-making process of the EU Global Strategy (EUGS)? This article argues that, despite the divisive and crisis-ridden dynamics in European integration and external action, de novo bodies such as the HR/VP and the...

The European Union (EU) has been portrayed as a force for good in the international system. However, due to systemic changes in the international environment and the crises of European integration, its role in the world is becoming more contentious. This paper applies the politicization literature to EU foreign policy and, using the case of the EU...

EU strategies can be understood as documents revealing the EU’s strategic culture, as milestones for assessing the impact of the EU as a global actor and as a tool for policy-inspiration in foreign policy and external action. This chapter prioritises this third reading of EU strategies and argues that they should be considered as milestone document...

This chapter examines the policy-making process of the EUGS as an illustration of the inter-institutional dynamics of external action. It argues that the HR/VP benefited from having the right of initiative when deciding on the range of policies covered by the EUGS and the shape of its policy formulation process. Strategy-making has provided for the...

A significant share of current theorisation efforts in European integration signals a trend towards more intergovernmentalism. External action has supposedly been no stranger to these dynamics, with member states emerging as the winners of a power contest with supranational institutions. The new intergovernmentalism has captured these developments...

This chapter provides the analytical framework of the book by looking at two parallel developments. On the one hand, it reviews the re-emergence of a long-lasting debate between intergovernmentalism and supranationalism in the form of the new intergovernmentalism and its critiques. On the other, it analyses the shift from foreign policy to external...

This chapter provides the first empirical case study of the book by looking at the policy-making process of the first foreign and security policy strategy ever adopted by the EU. The chapter shows how the different phases of strategy-making in the European Security Strategy (ESS) nuance the predominance of intergovernmentalism in the CFSP. Its poli...

“This book provides profound insights into contemporary EU decision-making in the field of external action and makes a highly valuable contribution to the debate on the new intergovernmentalism as a framework for understanding the post-Lisbon EU.” Uwe Puetter, Central European University, Hungary “The most detailed, empirically informed analysis o...

This working paper analyses the role of religious and resistance identities in Hezbollah’s transformation and foreign relations. It argues that this Islamist movement has privileged material concerns over the religious dogma when both factors have not been coincidental. To do so, it uses a theoretical framework that presents the main characteristic...

This chapter analyses the evolving nature of the foreign policy of the EU as a consequence of the set up of new structures such as the office of the High Representative/Vice President and the European External Action Service. It argues that while decision-taking in CFSP and CSDP remains intergovernmental for the most part, the strengthened power of...

This article analyses the evolving nature of the foreign policy of the European Union (EU) as a consequence of the set-up of new structures such as the office of the High Representative/Vice-President (HR/VP) and the European External Action Service (EEAS). It argues that while decision-taking in Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common...

This article analyses the evolving nature of the foreign policy of the European Union (EU) as a consequence of the set-up of new structures such as the office of the High Representative/Vice-President (HR/VP) and the European External Action Service (EEAS). It argues that while decision-taking in Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common...

El presente artículo apunta los principales cambios que se han producido en el ámbito de la seguridad internacional y que han contribuido a la aparición de la expresión de la seguridad humana. Desde una perspectiva histórica, se describen los principales documentos e informes que han consolidado el uso de la expresión, al mismo tiempo que se estudi...