{"title":"The need for (which) adaptation to climate change in cities?","authors":"Lorenzo Chelleri","doi":"10.24241/notesint.2024/308/en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24241/notesint.2024/308/en","url":null,"abstract":"With hundreds of cities declaring climate emergencies, there is little evidence about successful climate adaptation and its upscaling. In parallel to the case for adaptation, there is also a distinct need to mitigate climate change, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Exploring synergies and trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation, a third concept – resilience (and resilience thinking) – is a perspective that can scrutinise adaptation and tie it to mitigation. Which adaptation, to what, and how do we measure the success or fallacy of adaptations to climate change in cities?","PeriodicalId":312747,"journal":{"name":"Notes Internacionals CIDOB","volume":"55 50","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141644491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"¿Qué adaptación al cambio climático necesitan las ciudades?","authors":"Lorenzo Chelleri","doi":"10.24241/notesint.2024/308/es","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24241/notesint.2024/308/es","url":null,"abstract":"A pesar de que cientos de ciudades han declarado emergencias climáticas, hay pocas pruebas de que las medidas de adaptación al clima que han tomado y su intensificación hayan tenido éxito. Paralelamente a la adaptación, existe una clara necesidad de mitigar el cambio climático mediante la reducción de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. Al explorar las sinergias y las compensaciones entre adaptación y mitigación, un tercer concepto –la resiliencia (y el pensamiento basado en la resiliencia)– ofrece una perspectiva que puede servir para analizar la adaptación y vincularla a la mitigación. ¿Cómo medir el éxito o la falacia de las adaptaciones al cambio climático en las ciudades? ¿Qué tipo de adaptación y a qué?","PeriodicalId":312747,"journal":{"name":"Notes Internacionals CIDOB","volume":"26 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141648559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"¿Vuelve América Central a asomarse al abismo?","authors":"Salvador Martí i Puig, Daniel Rodríguez Suárez","doi":"10.24241/notesint.2024/304/es","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24241/notesint.2024/304/es","url":null,"abstract":"La situación política y social en América Central vuelve a ser extremadamente crítica, con retrocesos democráticos, connivencia con el narco y episodios de violencia preocupantes. Los esfuerzos y compromisos para democratizar la región en la década de 1990, tras las guerras civiles de la década anterior, se han ido diluyendo con el nuevo milenio hasta producirse crisis múltiples. A la deriva autoritaria del clan Ortega en Nicaragua, se suma la más reciente en El Salvador de Bukele. En Honduras y Guatemala, la política transcurre por frágiles equilibrios con desenlaces inciertos, mientras que Costa Rica ha experimentado la llegada de un ousider al poder y Panamá se enfrenta a movilizaciones masivas que impugnan un modelo de desarrollo ecocida.","PeriodicalId":312747,"journal":{"name":"Notes Internacionals CIDOB","volume":"102 s1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140225036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subnational diplomacy in the United States: a practice that is still expanding","authors":"Agustí Fernández de Losada","doi":"10.24241/notesint.2024/302/en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24241/notesint.2024/302/en","url":null,"abstract":"From a certain relevance in the second half of the 20th century, albeit episodic and with a domestic focus, subnational diplomacy in the United States has moved with the new millennium towards fresh, more complex and sophisticated, multi-actor frameworks that have greater potential impact. They are frameworks in which certain philanthropic organisations, the private sector, highly influential think tanks and academia carry considerable weight. Today, Ambassador Nina Hachigian, US special representative for city and state diplomacy, leads a strategy looking to gain influence in the State Department and thus make subnational governments key components of the United States’ diplomatic machinery. It remains to be seen how the strategy will evolve, all the more so with the prospect of Donald Trump on the horizon.","PeriodicalId":312747,"journal":{"name":"Notes Internacionals CIDOB","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140243075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading history wrong: the plight of European foreign policy in the Middle East","authors":"Francis Ghiles","doi":"10.24241/notesint.2024/303/en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24241/notesint.2024/303/en","url":null,"abstract":"Since the early 20th century, France and the United Kingdom (UK) and, after 1945, the United States (US), have been getting the Middle East wrong. In 2003, France’s President Chirac and Germany’s Chancellor Schröder refused to endorse what proved to be a catastrophic mistake: the US-led invasion of Iraq. Eight years later, President Sarkozy chose to abandon the wisdom of his predecessor and was a cheerleader for the toppling of the Libyan leader Gaddafi, which allowed Russia back into the Mediterranean area. Western leaders’ misreading of the Middle East has been compounded by the media, whose moral grandstanding has increasingly replaced serious reporting and debate. Middle Eastern countries today are defending their interests aggressively and refusing to play by the rules set in Paris, London or Washington. A new nationalism stalks the region, making diplomacy more transactional.","PeriodicalId":312747,"journal":{"name":"Notes Internacionals CIDOB","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140250323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La diplomacia subnacional en Estados Unidos: una práctica todavía en expansión","authors":"Agustí Fernández de Losada","doi":"10.24241/notesint.2024/302/es","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24241/notesint.2024/302/es","url":null,"abstract":"De ser una realidad relevante durante la segunda mitad del siglo xx, aunque de corte episódico y mirada doméstica, la diplomacia subnacional en Estados Unidos ha transitado con el nuevo milenio hacia nuevos esquemas multiactor, más complejos, sofisticados y con mayor capacidad de impacto. Esquemas en los que algunas organizaciones filantrópicas, el sector privado, think tanks altamente influyentes y la academia tienen un peso muy significativo. Hoy, la embajadora Nina Hachigian, representante especial de Estados Unidos para la diplomacia de ciudades y estados, lidera una estrategia que busca ganar influencia en el Departamento de Estado con el objetivo de situar a los gobiernos subnacionales como piezas de peso en el engranaje de la diplomacia estadounidense. Está por ver su evolución, más aún conDonald Trump en el horizonte.","PeriodicalId":312747,"journal":{"name":"Notes Internacionals CIDOB","volume":"14 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140422174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El proyecto internacional del Brasil de Lula: un juego de equilibrios entre el Sur Global y el Norte Atlántico","authors":"Anna Ayuso, Susanne Gratius","doi":"10.24241/notesint.2024/301/es","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24241/notesint.2024/301/es","url":null,"abstract":"Desde su vuelta a la presidencia de Brasil en enero de 2023, la primera prioridad de la política exterior de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ha sido reconstruir la política exterior regional del país y recuperar la confianza de sus socios latinoamericanos y de las organizaciones internacionales. Sin embargo, ello acontece en una coyuntura internacional compleja –como las guerras en Ucrania y la Franja de Gaza– poco favorable a posiciones de neutralidad y autonomía. El Gobierno de Lula sitúa de nuevo a Brasil al lado de los países emergentes, adoptando una política hacia Asia Pacífico que cambia la jerarquía de prioridades externas a favor de China y otros países BRICS. Sus posiciones revisionistas frente al orden internacional causan tensiones en las relaciones con Occidente, aunque el pragmatismo evita la confrontación directa.","PeriodicalId":312747,"journal":{"name":"Notes Internacionals CIDOB","volume":"26 43","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139795333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El proyecto internacional del Brasil de Lula: un juego de equilibrios entre el Sur Global y el Norte Atlántico","authors":"Anna Ayuso, Susanne Gratius","doi":"10.24241/notesint.2024/301/es","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24241/notesint.2024/301/es","url":null,"abstract":"Desde su vuelta a la presidencia de Brasil en enero de 2023, la primera prioridad de la política exterior de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ha sido reconstruir la política exterior regional del país y recuperar la confianza de sus socios latinoamericanos y de las organizaciones internacionales. Sin embargo, ello acontece en una coyuntura internacional compleja –como las guerras en Ucrania y la Franja de Gaza– poco favorable a posiciones de neutralidad y autonomía. El Gobierno de Lula sitúa de nuevo a Brasil al lado de los países emergentes, adoptando una política hacia Asia Pacífico que cambia la jerarquía de prioridades externas a favor de China y otros países BRICS. Sus posiciones revisionistas frente al orden internacional causan tensiones en las relaciones con Occidente, aunque el pragmatismo evita la confrontación directa.","PeriodicalId":312747,"journal":{"name":"Notes Internacionals CIDOB","volume":"47 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139855034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Populism reaches new heights in Narendra Modi’s India","authors":"Guillaume Delacroix","doi":"10.24241/notesint.2024/300/en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24241/notesint.2024/300/en","url":null,"abstract":"India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been in power for ten years, is seeking a third term in office. His goal is to restore the country to the preeminent position it supposedly lost due to previous Muslim and British rulers. He is kicking off the 2024 election year with the inauguration of the Ayodhya temple intended to liberate Hindus from the alleged enslavement they endured for 1,200 years. His supremacist ideology aims to transform the Hindu majority into an electoral majority. By intertwining politics and religion, it turns Muslims and Christians into aliens worthy only of the status of second-class citizens.","PeriodicalId":312747,"journal":{"name":"Notes Internacionals CIDOB","volume":"37 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140487735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El mundo en 2024: diez temas que marcarán la agenda internacional","authors":"Colomina Carme","doi":"10.24241/notesint.2023/299/es","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24241/notesint.2023/299/es","url":null,"abstract":"2024 será un año de urnas y armas. Las elecciones celebradas en más de 70 países, que actuarán como un test de estrés para el sistema democrático, y el impacto de la multiplicidad de conflictos que alimenta la inestabilidad global definirán un mundo en plena transición de poder y en claro retroceso humanitario y de derechos fundamentales. Se acentúa la erosión de las normas internacionales vigentes y aumenta la imprevisibilidad. 2024 empieza totalmente abierto, marcado por un mundo cada vez más diverso y (des)ordenado, definido por alianzas e intereses cambiantes en cuestiones como la competición geopolítica, las transiciones verde y digital o la seguridad internacional. Las consecuencias económicas de las sucesivas crisis serán más visibles que en años anteriores: el crecimiento económico será débil y el frenazo chino reverberará en las economías emergentes, cada vez más tensionadas por el endurecimiento de las condiciones financieras y la fortaleza del dólar.","PeriodicalId":312747,"journal":{"name":"Notes Internacionals CIDOB","volume":" 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138960693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}