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The article presents a conference paper titled "Radical and Moderate Basque Nationalism: Investigating Strategies for Accommodation." It examines the approaches and strategies favored by the democratic Spanish state in responding to Basque nationalism. It also presents a theoretical discussion of approaches to nationalist conflict management and analyzes the political logic behind the proposal for a status of Free Association between the Basque Country and the Spanish state.

The paper analyzes Spain?s foreign affairs on the context of the Common Foreign Policy and Security of the European Union (EU) and how it has been important for the definition of foreign policy. In other hand, the paper also examines the internal topics and state structures related to decision making on Spain?s external affairs vis a vis its International Relations all over the world. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The political future of Euskadi (Basque Country) is at a crucial juncture. Basque nationalism, a political and ideological journey fathered by Sabino Arana in the end of the 19th century, has been successful at obtaining an exceptionally high degree of autonomy for the region, while falling short of enabling the Basques to decide their own future. Basque identity remains fraught with tension; however, the tendency towards inclusive and non-essentialist self-definitions that reconcile parochialism and cosmopolitanism and agglutinate the two polar social collectives of nationalists and non-nationalists within the Basque Country is growing. And Basque culture, historically marginalized, has blossomed in an environment of globalization, post-modernity, and European integration. This enables greater levels of flexibility towards and interaction with the neighboring Spanish province of Navarre, the Basque-French territories, and the Basque diaspora. In essence, the country’s imagined borders are expanding and include virtual bridges which span international borders and oceans alike. A political accommodation, however, is far from settled. The current negotiations with the terrorist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), which declared a permanent ceasefire last year, bring to the fore many questions about the future of the Basque country that remain unsolved and make Spaniards uneasy. The purpose of this paper is to assess both the limits and the possibilities for a settlement of the political question, and the impact that alternative scenarios would have in Madrid, Brussels, and Vitoria-Gasteiz. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the extent to which socio-political factors played a rol in the Spanish direct investment drive process in Latin America. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spain is considered a new immigration country whereby 7% of its 43 millions inhabitants are immigrants. While this number does not include illegal immigrants because of the difficulty in exacting an accurate number, estimates suggest about 1.5 million of people are non-documented immigrants (43% of the total). It was with Aznar's administration (1996-2004) that the Spanish government implemented a new migration policy that has led to a securitization of migration with a very strict migration law thus contributing to the maintenance of 'fortress Europe'. With the governmental change in March 2004, expectations have grown about a new migration policy that is more flexible and without criminalization of migrants. Zapatero's administration has begun to formalize the status of 'illegal people' staying in Spain but it is just the first step in managing a very problematic situation. The main aim of this paper is compare the two governments' attitude and understandings about migration and what the effects have been of these at the European and international levels addressing the question: can we speak of a real change of direction in the migration policy of Spain? ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]