...Guillaume Darribau; Brenna Bhandar Since the Great Recession of 2008, hundreds of thousands of Spaniards have been forced from their homes. For over five years, photographer Guillaume Darribau has documented the Spanish neighborhood hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis, the area of Barcelona known...

... served as a precursor to Occupy Wall Street, have spread to urban centers across Spain. After electoral wins in Barcelona, Madrid, A Coruña, and elsewhere, former activists have ushered in changes to the business of governance that offer a credible and compelling alternative to neoliberalism. Copyright...

... of Pentecostals are singing, letting Barcelona know they’re as popular as any nightclub and have a party that lasts past dawn. Each Sunday, London’s Hillsong mega-church holds four sessions at the Dominion Theatre, home to the Queen tribute show “We Will Rock You” the rest of the week. All the smoke...

... the “Barcelona Process,” Europe hoped to establish a framework for comprehensive relations with Muslims to the south and east. The Barcelona Process, however, was slow to produce meaningful change, obstructed primarily by worsening Arab-Israeli relations. In 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy took over...

.... the social systems of strategic countries like Prodi also wants to improve the EU’s ex­ China and Iran by bringing them into the isting innovation programs for small busi­ great family of nations.” Prodi is keen to nesses, and he wants, above all, to improve build upon the Barcelona process begun...

.... Atran returned in November 2008 and asked the same question. Then, the number one hero was Eto’o, another Barcelona star, but the number three hero now sandwiched between the Terminator and number four, Osama Bin Laden, was Barack Obama. “This tells us one thing pretty clearly,” says Atran. “These kids...

...Patrice de Beer © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Terrats Village, France—This piece was written in the south of France in the small house I own one hour by express train from Barcelona, the very week the European Union’s new leadership was installed for five years...

..., the Lithuanian people could perhaps slip out of the USSR’s vice-like grip. At that time, the Moscow club had access to the best players from across the Soviet Union. The bronze medal the Lithuanian basketball team won at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics was worth its weight in gold. Until then, we had been...

... into the “Barcelona of the North.” At the heart of this area stood a grand, all-glass museum, opened in June 2002. Named Urbis, the building files to a flatiron-like curve, cutting a striking modernist profile in a city that had once defined modernity. At the start of the 19th century, Manchester appeared almost out...

... members, most of them based in India. In March 2010, the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity was held in Barcelona and attended by 500 academics from 40 countries. Its premise was that the crisis of 2008 has conclusively established...

... maximum of others, but by working toward provision of the new statute is likely to de­ agreement on a minimum acceptable to rail Madrid’s relationship with Barcelona. everybody All advances will have to be The new charter proposes to reduce the made in a consensual way.” contribution...

... the Messina negotiations that would lead two years later to the Treaty of Rome and the creation of the European Economic Community.” The Tokyo games of 1964 coincided with Japanese entry into the IMF and the OECD. Barcelona was awarded the 1992 games in 1986, the year Spain joined the EEC. The start...

... in par­ their rightful home in Barcelona. The same ticular. This is not just because Spain is to­ applies to the Aznar government’s decision, day the European Union’s front door—or post 2000, to grant generous state funding frontier fortress, depending on your point of to a private institution...

... and feels entitled to speak for his people. From Scotland to Barcelona, Djawa has traveled broadly to share his culture. But in the U.S., Canada, and New Zealand, overrepresentation of indigenous people in prison populations is clearly acknowledged. Aboriginals comprise barely 4 percent...

... of the European Union. preventing policymakers in developed and 3. Devlin Kuyek, “Genetically Modified Crops developing countries from concentrating on in African Culture,” G rain (Barcelona), August 2002. the real promises and perils of the biotech 4. Ann Veneman...

... been embraced by the “new Morocco,” especially the sexiest young women and the hottest “golden boys.” The nayda in Casablanca, is similar to the movida in Barcelona—a cocktail of fiesta, rap, rock, and freedom. It is fashion, long nights, and perpetual motion. Still, there are naydas of the lower...

... of Shiite Islam, “and his relatives what Barcelona must have been like when would come to visit, he would refuse to use it was the hotbed of Republicanism on the fuel to light extra lamps, so concerned was eve of Spain’s civil war. The Revolution is he about abusing his position. When Imam morally...

... some financial leverage through the would retain a local self-defense capability. so-called Euro-Med Partnership, launched Holding Hizbullah’s offensive capability at the 1995 Barcelona Euro-Mediterranean in check while keeping its defensive capa­ Conference, for which it has earmarked over...

... proposed maritime museum, and restoration Country, the Catalans have used these exten­ work on Ondarroa’s vertiginously located sive powers of devolved government to make medieval church. Barcelona and its surrounding provinces one Arkotxa is an avuncular teddy bear of of the great success stories...

... in the organization’s related scams such as the Football Fund, fronted by an ex-England and former Barcelona football manager, Terry Venables, was just the tip of the iceberg. Land in Sierra Leone, according to the country’s own agricultural investment agency, is often sold for $12 per acre—about 97 percent...