English articles and papers (mostly by me)

Selection of papers, mostly by M. Strubell, on Catalan independence process (PDF):  http://cv.uoc.edu/~grc0_003638_web/150205_Selection.pdf 


January 2017

• Why the Spanish government should be ignored. January 23. Blog post.  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2017/01/gonzalezpons.html

 December 2016

• Strubell, M. The Catalan Independence Process and Cold Repression (2003-2016). TREATISES AND DOCUMENTS. JOURNAL OF ETHNIC STUDIES, 77 (2016): 5–31. http://www.inv.si/DocDir/Publikacije-PDF/Razprave%20in%20gradivo/RIG%2077/RIG_77_final_2.pdf

• Forcadell On Trial, Catalan News Monitor, December 12, 2016
  http://catalanmonitor.com/2016/12/12/forcadell-on-trial/

November 2016

• Whistle…at your peril! Catalan News Monitor, November 8, 2016. http://catalanmonitor.com/2016/11/08/whistle-at-your-peril/

October 2016 

• Main events from October 2013 to September 2014. Blog post. http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2016/10/events-since-october-2013.html

July 2015

• Catalonia's self-determination process: a bottom-up movement?". Public lecture delivered at the Centre Català de Luxemburg, Luxembourg, July 7th 2015.  http://estudiscatalans.blogspot.com/2015/07/luxembourg.html

March 2015

• "The Political Future of Catalonia and the Role of Public Diplomacy" (George Washington University). Tweet coverage. March 16.   http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2015/03/georgewashingtonu.html

February 2015

• Who is judge Vidal? February 26. Blog post.  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2015/02/vidal.html

January 2015

• An English translation: "Unió Democràtica". January 9. Blog post.  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2015/09/an-english-translation.html 

December 2014

• "Ara Mateix / Right Now". December 12 2014. http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2014/12/aramateix.html

November 2014

• "Civi Europaeo Praemium". November 25 2014.  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2014/11/civi.html

• "Welsh Civil Society". November 20 2014. http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2014/11/citizens.html

• "The Case for Catalonia's Independence" (Cardiff University, November 19 2014).  http://estudiscatalans.blogspot.com/2014/11/cardiff.html

• Public letter to Mr. David Cameron (by Toni Strubell). November 19 2014. http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2014/11/cameron.html

• "Catalonia's independence and the Cyberwar". November 14 2014.  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2014/11/cyberwar.html

October 2014

• Background information on the November 9 ballot in Catalonia, October 28 2014. http://estudiscatalans.blogspot.com/2014/10/9nen.html

• "Between the devil and the deep blue sea". October 22 2014.  http://pilaraymara.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/entre-les-espases-i-les-parets-between.html  (English translation of "Entre Espases i Parets", October 22 2014). http://diarigran.cat/2014/10/entre-les-espases-i-les-parets/

• "Against all the odds: David and Goliath. An epic struggle". October 22 2014. http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2014/10/david.html
  
  
• "Relief? Certainly not in Catalonia", October 18 2014.  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2014/10/relief.html

• A critique of "The Economist: Explains: Catalonia's independence movement". October 15 2014. http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2014/10/economist.html

September 2014

•  How to try and stop the independence process for a few months (September 27 2014. http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2014/09/process.html
  

• "Civil Engagement on the Road to Self-government". (Conference on the "Rioght to Decide", European Parliament, Brussels, September  23 2014)  

April 2014

• Day One (by M. Strubell). Help Catalonia, April 20 2014.  http://www.helpcatalonia.cat/2014/04/day-one.html

March 2014 

• Lecture: "Catalonia's Self-Determination Process"  (by M. Strubell).  http://cv.uoc.edu/~grc0_003638_web/140331_BRUSSELLES_ANC.pdf   
• Video "Catalonia's Self-Determination Process"  (by M. Strubell). (1 h 44 m) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etmt3Z-KM8g
• An Independent Catalonia Will Be a Good Neighbour (by M. Strubell). http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/catalonia-will-be-a-good-neighbor-4944/
• "La Pedrera" Declaration. http://estudiscatalans.blogspot.com/2014/03/la-pedrera-declaration.html

December 2013

• "A Nightmare Experience" (by M. Strubell) http://www.helpcatalonia.cat/2013/12/a-nightmare-experience.html

November 2013

• Videos of Conference 'Self-Determination Processes in the EU'. http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2013/11/videos-ucl.html

• ANC - November Declaration. http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2013/11/anc-declaracio-de-novembre-november.html

October 2013

•  "Before and after the UCL 'Self-Determination Processes in the EU' Conference" (by M. Strubell) http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2013/10/ucl.html
• "Catalonia’s self-determination process: a bottom-up movement?" (by M. Strubell, University College London, October 25 2013).  http://www.carlemany.eu/?q=en/blog/2013/12/17/catalonias-self-determination-process-bottom-movement

September 2013

• Letter from "Your Europe Advice" on EU citizenship in an independent Catalonia  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2013/09/letter-from-your-europe-advice-on-eu.html
• Enjoy History! (by Vicent Partal)  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2013/09/enjoy-history.html

June 2013

• Prime Minister Cameron's briefing with the Foreign Press Association.   http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2013/06/que-ha-dit-david-cameron.html

May 2013

• To Andrew Morton OD (by M. Strubell).  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2013/05/to-andrew-morton.html

April 2013

• Marc Belzunces: Maps showing the distribution of Unionist and Separatist votes in the last elections.  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2013/04/el-mapa-de-lindependentisme-casa-per.html 

January 2013

• Open reply to pepón  (by M. Strubell).  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2013/01/open-reply-to-pepon.html
• Catalan bashing  (by M. Strubell).  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2013/01/catalan-bashing.html
• The failure of Spain as a project (by M. Strubell).  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-failure-of-spain-as-project.html
• Associated Press in Madrid: How to distort what Catalans want (by M. Strubell).  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2013/01/associated-press-in-madrid-how-to.html

November 2012

• "Catalonia elections: Independence high up the agenda"  (by M. Strubell).   http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2012/11/polls-open-in-catalonia-with.html  
• "We have a dream" (by M. Strubell). http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2012/11/we-have-dream.html

October 2012

• "Spanish Armed Forces: Video celebrating the "Fiesta Nacional"   http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2012/10/spanish-armed-forces-video-celebrating.html 

May 2012

• "Testing machine translation tools: Spanish-English"  (by M. Strubell) http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2012/05/testing-machine-translation-tools.html

April 2012

• "The Siege" (Manuel Cuyàs).  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2012/04/siege.html

March 2012

• "More than their fair share" (by M. Strubell). http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2012/03/more-than-their-fair-share.html 

January 2012 

• "Fair Do's!" (by M. Strubell).  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2012/01/fair-dos.html

September 2010

• The Spanish Constitutional Court ruling, and the Catalan language: a socio-political perspective (read at the Linguapax meeting, Barcelona, September 16 2010). Blog post.  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2010/09/photo-by-marc-arias-la-vanguardia.html

May 2010

• Spanish Television - Censorship once again! Blog entry. 31 May. http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2010/05/spanish-television-censorship-once.html

November 2009

• Catalan and Catalonia (videos). 16 November.  Blog entry.  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2009/11/catalan-and-catalonia-1.html

May 2009

• Boos and hisses greeted the national anthem at Spain's football cup final between Catalans and Basques. 18 May. Blog entry.  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2009/05/boos-and-hisses-greeted-national-anthem.html

April 2009

•  Response to the Financial Times. 17 April. Not published. Blog entry.  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-is-my-reply-to-what-i-regard-as.html

December 2007. 

• Over 200,000 Catalans demonstrate in Barcelona. 1 December. Blog entry. http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2007/12/over-200000-catalans-demonstrate-in.html

March 2005

• "The Treaty of Genoa" (1705).  http://miquelstrubell.blogspot.com/2005/03/treaty-of-genoa-1705-in-2005-catalans.html 

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Diego Muro & Martijn Vlaskamp (23/7/2014). The Spanish government must find a positive message for Catalonia if it is to reduce support for Catalan independence.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2014/07/23/the-spanish-government-must-find-a-positive-message-for-catalonia-if-it-is-to-reduce-support-for-catalan-independence/

... Our findings seem to suggest that for many Catalans even the threat of EU exclusion is not credible or strong enough to substantially change their preferences.

WILLIAM WALKER (2014). International reactions to the Scottish referendum, International Affairs 90: 4 (2014) 743–759.  http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/files/chathamhouse/field/field_publication_docs/INTA90_4_001Walker.pdf

... Besides the decorum that informs this position, governments know that referendums are fickle and external intervention can backfire. The only breaks in the silence have occurred when a government has felt its immediate interests to be affected. This happened notably when Madrid became concerned in late 2012 that the Scottish referendum’s nature and occurrence could aggravate the situation in Catalonia. The views of governments may have been expressed on occasion through speeches made by public figures, including retired politicians, but their own silence has been golden—until very recently.

Absence of intervention should not be taken to indicate absence of concern....

...The Edinburgh Agreement turned the possibility that a referendum would be held in Scotland into a political and legal reality.8 This brought the first international reaction, especially in the voicing of concern by a Spanish government struggling to contain an upsurge of nationalist sentiment in Catalonia that was driving calls for a similar referendum on independence. The Spanish reaction provoked debate in turn about an independent Scotland’s right to membership of the European Union and the possibility that some of its members, including Spain, would oppose accession or attach tough conditions to it. Events in the UK and Spain then brought public warnings in November 2012 from Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright, former US President and Secretary of State respectively, of the dangers of political fragmentation in Europe and its negative consequences for the western alliance. ...

The importance of establishing legality has also been highlighted recently by the Spanish government, with an eye to contrasting the Scottish and proposed Catalonian referendums. ‘If Scotland becomes independent in accordance with the legal and institutional procedures, it will ask for admission [to the EU]. If that process has indeed been legal, that request can be considered. If not, then not.’ (Statement by José-Manuel García-Margallo, Spain’s Foreign Minister, reported by Tobias Buck and Mure Dickie in ‘Spain promises non-interference on Scotland’, Financial Times, 2 Feb. 2014.)