Javier Solana was EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary-General of NATO, and Foreign Minister of Spain. He is currently President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics and Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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Javier Solana
Commentaries by Javier Solana
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A New Chance for European Politics
MADRID – Most political leaders in Europe want the European Union to emerge from its current crisis stronger and more united. But the econom…
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The Sino-American Test in North Korea
MADRID – Repeated threats from North Korea have turned the Korean Peninsula into one of the world’s most dangerous hotspots. But the situati…
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A New Business Model for Cyprus
MADRID – Once again, Europe has peered into the abyss. But the tentative agreement between Cyprus and the troika (the European Commission, t…
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The European-American Dream
MADRID – Today, three European countries are among the world’s seven largest economies. Ten years from now, only two will remain. By 2030, o…
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A New Year of Global Conflict
DAVOS – In today’s world, identifying and managing hotspots is not simply a matter of pulling out a map, spotting the wildfires, and empower…
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Transatlantic Free Trade?
MADRID – This month, the United States National Intelligence Council released a sobering report entitled Global Trends 2030: Alternative Wor…
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America’s Perilous Pivot
MADRID – The Pacific or the Middle East? For the United States, that is now the primary strategic question. The violence in Gaza, coming as …
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The World After November
MADRID – On November 6, either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will emerge victorious after an exhausting electoral race, setting the wheels in …
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A Europe for the World
MADRID – Despite the welter of economic problems surrounding Europe, one fact should not be forgotten: the European Union remains the world’…
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Iran Confronts Reality
MADRID – Who has not seen what looks like water on a highway on a hot summer’s day? Or a three-dimensional image that was actually a picture…
A New Chance for European Politics
Margaret Bowker: I agree that there is considerable opportunity for reform on the horizon in Europe, including implementing in full, the move to balanced reduction and growth. Interesting to see William Hague's 'red …
A New Chance for European Politics
Edward Ponderer: I fear that the continuing ping pong game of opinion between growth and austerity is like being on a Island of starving people whose leaders insist on food being defined as the nearly depleted oranges…