Spanish Version The 9/11 attacks were shocking. And so were the 2004 Madrid train bombings. After all, they represented the first major terrorist atrocities committed by modern jihadism on Western soil. Accordingly, our politicians framed the events with various cognitive metaphors pertaining to the domain of exceptionality, madness and irrationality. Fast forward 15 years and regardless of hundreds of additional attacks, yielding thousands of deaths and casualties, it wou

Spanish Version “A week is a long time in politics” is a Harold Wilson quote that most politics observers like to roll out at times of rapid change in the political world. The speed of shifting sands in politics has been torrid in the last year. It was beginning to feel that the white hot centrifugal point of geopolitical drama had finally shifted away from the UK and the EU trash talk. Events in Syria, the Korean peninsula and even alarming photos of Donald Trump's son we

English Version Traducción de Antonio Tudela “Una semana es mucho tiempo en política”. Se trata de una cita de Harold Wilson que muchos politólogos gustan de emplear en tiempos de cambio en el panorama político. La velocidad en el cambio de los acontecimientos ha sido tórrida en el último año. Se ha comenzado a sentir que el núcleo del drama geopolítico va más allá de Reino Unido, la Unión Europea y sus debates basura. Los acontecimientos en Siria, la península de Corea