Laia Balcells in Foreign Affairs: “A Way Out of Spain’s Catalan Crisis And Why Madrid Is Unlikely to Take It.”

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Conflict Resolution Professor Laia Balcells writes in Foreign Affairs on the continuing crisis between Spain and secessionists in Catalonia, on November 27, 2019.

Little progress has been made in laying out a path for handling the difference between Spain and Catalan regional secessionists. Without dialogue, the situation is unlikely to improve. However, Madrid has historic and strategic reasons not to talk.