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Staff Profile: José Ignacio Torreblanca

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José Ignacio Torreblanca joined the European Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Madrid Office in September 2007. Previously he spent three years at the Madrid's based Elcano Royal Institute for International Affairs as Senior Analyst for EU affairs.

He has a doctorate in Political Science and Sociology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and teaches political science and EU affairs at the distance learning University in Madrid (UNED). He is also Fellow at the Juan March Institute of Studies in Madrid. He has been Fulbright scholar in the European Union-US Program, Lecturer at the George Washington University in Washington DC and a researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Foreign Policy en español, co-editor of blogeuropa.eu and a regular columnist in daily EL PAIS.

Languages: Spanish, English

Areas of expertise: EU enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, EU institutional reforms, Common Foreign Security and Defence Policy

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Recent Publications include:

DIAGNÓSTICO DIFERENCIAL, POLÍTICA EXTERIOR. Para José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero - with José María de Areilza, Foreign Policy en Español, June/July 2009.

Spanish government must recognize Kosovo, - with Jordi Vaquer - El País, 22 April 2008.

La dificultad de ser amado y temido, El Pais, 8 April 2008.

Is there a trade-off between deepening and widening? What do Europeans think? Co-author with Antonia M. Ruiz-Jiménez. EPIN Working Papers No. 17, 2 April 2008.

Esperando a ZP, El Pais, 19 March 2008.

Francia y Europa: percepciones, sintonías y desajustes, (France and Europe, perceptions, affinities and mismatches) by José Ignacio Torreblanca. Política Exterior, No. 122, pp. 81-92.

Sarkozy's foreign policy: where do European interests and values stand?, FRIDE, February 2008.

La fragmentación del poder europeo, El Pais, 25 February 2008.

Un precedente contra la limpieza étnica, El Pais, 15 February 2008.

"Mucho en juego en Afganistán" Radio Nederland, 22 January 2008.

El impacto de una eventual adhesión turca sobre las instituciones comunitarias, la política exterior y el espacio de libertad, seguridad y justicia, by Antonio Barroso and José I. Torreblanca, in "El impacto de la adhesión de Turquía en la UE". Colección La Sociedad Internacional Contemporánea. Editorial Biblioteca Nueva, S.L., Madrid, 2008.

Una Europa poderosa, pero introvertida, (A powerful but intro verted Europe). CIDOB Yearbook 2008. "Claves para interpretar la Política Exterior Española y las Relaciones Internacionales en 2007", pp. 263-269.

Palabras que cuentan: potencias herbívoras (Herbivorous Powers), Foreing Policy in Spanish, December-January 2008, pp. 12.

Lo mejor de Europa (The best of Europe). Book review of Pablo Benavides' "Europa entre bastidores". Política Exterior, No. 120, pp. 177-179.

¿Necesita Europa Fronteras?, in Borrell, Jose (ed), "Europa en la encrucijada", Fundación Cajamar, December 2007 

European public opinion and Turkey's accession: making sense of arguments for and against, (co-authored with A.M Ruiz-Jimenez). EPIN Working Papers 16/2007.

20 Years of Spain membership to the EU (1986-2006), co-author con Sonia Piedrafita and Federico Steinberg. Real Instituto Elcano y Parlamento Europeo - Oficina en España. ISBN 84-689-7384-X, 160 páginas.

From threat to opportunity: Making flexible integration work, co-author with Sebastian Kurpas, Julia De Clerck-Sachsse, José I. Torreblanca, Gaëtane Ricard Nihoul. EPIN Working Papers, no.15  , September 2006.

A Citizens Compact: a joint initiative to reach out to the citizens of Europe. (Co-author). EPIN Working Papers 14/2005, September.

Farewell to funds? Keys to Understanding Spain's Position When Negotiating the 2007-13 EU Budget, Elcano Royal Institute WP 21/2005, José I. Torreblanca 5.9.2005.

The Three Logics of EU enlargement: Interests, Identities and Arguments. Real Instituto Elcano Estudios / Working Papers WP 51/2004, 15 septiembre 2004 (co-author with Sonia Piedrafita).

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