Fernando Betancor·Sep 11The Moroccan Lion: America’s New Strategic Partner from the Strait of Gibraltar to the SahelEXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Fernando Betancor·Nov 19, 2020Don’t Pack the Supreme CourtThe election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the White House has generated a vast enthusiasm among Democrats to “reform the system” with…
Fernando Betancor·Nov 16, 2020Do Both Parties Practice “Judicial Obstructionism”?When Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate Majority leader, refused to hold hearings for the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme…
Fernando Betancor·Aug 10, 2018Trump’s Economy: The Best or The Bubble?President Trump recently tweeted out his pleasure with the “great financial numbers” that were being announced “almost daily”. In usual…A response icon1A response icon1
Fernando Betancor·Nov 21, 2017The Anthropocene — Humanity Is Racing towards a CliffThis analysis and my own thinking on the correlation between demographics, technology, prices and their manifestation in human societies…
Fernando Betancor·Nov 7, 2017Catalonia: Change the Rules or Lose the GameIt has been ten days since the Spanish Government imposed an Article 155 sanctioned take-over of Catalonia, provoking a defiant Catalan…
Fernando Betancor·Nov 3, 2017Catalonia Demonstrates the Limits of European IntegrationOn the 9th of May, 1950 the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed “to make war not only unthinkable but materially impossible.”…A response icon1A response icon1
Fernando Betancor·Oct 31, 2017The Most Important Question of Last Year’s Presidential Debates (That No One Asked)I wrote last year about one of the most flagrant yet unremarked “fixes” in our political system in the aftermath of the first Presidential…
Fernando Betancor·Oct 23, 2017Catalonia is Already IndependentThe suspended declaration of Catalan independence on 10 October was followed by a week of uncertainty and allegations, with both Spanish…
Fernando Betancor·Oct 17, 2017Outside the Box: More Guns for Gun Control?Outside the Box is a series of articles that proposes unconventional solutions to controversial topics. Their purpose is to attempt to…
