Alba Córcoles
The magazine Política Exterior presented its new issue under the title ‘From Ukraine to Gaza’, in an event that took place last Thursday at the Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid.
The meeting, moderated by Belén Becerril, vice president of the Foreign Policy Analysis Foundation, featured interventions by Mira Milosevich-Juaristi, principal researcher for Russia, Eurasia and the Balkans at the Elcano Royal Institute; Manuel Muñiz, International Rector of the IE University and dean of the School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs; and Pedro Rodríguez, content director of “Política Exterior” and former correspondent for the United States of the newspaper ABC.
The evening was marked by a critical debate about the direction of the West and international liberal (dis)order, a panorama “where increasingly imperfect and divided democracies converge with increasingly perfect and coordinated autocracies,” explained Pedro Rodríguez.
From Ukraine it focuses on stories of empires, or post-empires that seek their independence in the process of re-imperialization. Gaza faces the dictatorship of the minority.
In the panorama they drew a solitary Europe, a United States that vertiginously borders on the rule of law with its support for Netanyahu and Iran as the biggest disruptor in the region, hand in hand with the rise of non-state actors.
The colloquium closed with the conviction that we must heal our domestic policy of extremism in order to better manage external threats. Not just bringing the debate home, but entering into dialogue with the Global South, which has been left out of the conversation.
Communication is key, they stressed at the meeting, for a stable foreign policy and sustained diplomacy. Spain is a bridge to the Global South, which despite its incipient centrality suffers Western ruptures as a danger to its development.
Rodríguez assured that it is vital to take planes, visit, and worry about including the periphery closely and stated that the magazine is one of the ideal first steps for this.
