Victor Angelo

Josep Borrel, the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, addressed the UN Security Council yesterday. It was a long speech about seve...

The Venezuela standoff goes on. Time plays against Nicolás Maduro. He sees what remains of his authority being eroded with the passing of...

Acts of war and drawn-out conflicts are among the key factors that undermine the authority of UN Security Council. Actually, they have a m...

Time to resume the daily routines, after a period of rest in Southern Spain. And the first thing I notice is that the key people in the Eu...

One of the forgotten countries is Guinea-Bissau, in West Africa. It has been in and out of crisis for the last seventeen years or so. Furt...

I am not a pessimist. I have actually no personal reason to be one. But as I look into the year that is about to start I get worried. Ther...

We are in the middle of a series of discussions about a comprehensive approach to crisis response.  We all recognize how important it ...

It is not always true that an alliance of states is stronger than one single state. The alliances are particularly fragile when its workin...

The shooting-down of the Malaysia Airlines plane is clearly the work of the separatists Russia supports in Ukraine. The tragedy brings in...

Back from a long voyage, I recall that one of the last posts I wrote before travelling has been about Russia and NATO. That post remains s...

South Sudan is in a mess. The crisis is deeper than many had thought. It has very strong tribal roots and that is the worst case scenario ...

We keep talking about the cost of each peacekeeping operation, the funds required by proactive diplomacy and crisis prevention, the expens...

In today’s world, when you have a crisis, you invest in diplomacy and negotiated solutions. But it would be a mistake not to back diplomacy...

I wrote yesterday’s post hours before the new dramatic developments in Egypt. At the end of my writing, I said “everything else is too tra...

Kim Jong-un is a young man. When he took over as leader of North Korea he had an opportunity to make history. He could have initiated a p...

In Northern Mali, now that the French military operations brought state control back to the urban areas, the next challenge is to make su...

The United Nations is the most important actor in the areas of conflict management and peace building. It is also the key source of legit...

This is a time for deeper commitment. Crises and challenges are constant in our competitive world. The only variable is the intellect, the ...

In a crisis situation, we should start by asking a very basic question: who are the agents of change?  The solution to any major cris...

I agree with the decision taken by the Algerian authorities to storm the gas facility and try to find a solution to the crisis without de...