Cuadernos de Gibraltar

Aims & Scope

The «Gibraltar question» deserved a periodical publication that, from the academic world, dealt with issues directly or indirectly linked to the controversy. Cuadernos de Gibraltar / Gibraltar Reports aim to fill this gap, and serve as a channel for debates and ideas with academic rigor and foundation, as well as a support and reference for documentation; documentation that is often lost or disappears quickly (or unexpectedly) in the jungle of the Internet, and in the simplification that the media sometimes make when dealing with any of the multiple facets of the Gibraltarian problem. The Journal is based on the planned and continuous teamwork of the Area of Public International Law and International Relations and the Jean Monnet Chair «Immigration and Borders» of Cádiz, which has received important institutional support in its continuous work. Indeed, since 2002 the Cádiz team has been dealing with and following the Gibraltar issue and cross-border cooperation with the Campo de Gibraltar from an International Law and European Law perspective; in turn, this theme is framed within the research lines of the Group and Research Team, dedicated to the analysis of the legal-international issues and problems of the Strait Area, relating to sovereignty, borders, cross-border cooperation and immigration issues, including cooperation with Morocco. These same lines of work have had the support of three R&D projects from the Ministry of Education and Science (SEJ-2005-08136/JURI), the Ministry of Science and Innovation (DER2009-11693), and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (DER2012-34577), which uninterruptedly cover the period 2005-2015. Likewise, the support of the Jean Monnet Chair «Immigration and Borders» of EU Law, granted by the European Commission, which has foreseen a specific line dedicated to training and research activities on cross-border cooperation with Gibraltar, channeled through the Gibraltar / Campo de Gibraltar University Classroom. In short, Cuadernos de Gibraltar / Gibraltar Reports aim to serve as an academic channel for debate and reference on the Gibraltar controversy and all related topics, and also to make available the most relevant or difficult-to-locate current documentation. As a specialized academic journal, it is open to any collaboration proposal, in English or Spanish, from the university world, and from researchers and specialists. In this effort to publicize Spanish and non-Spanish doctrine on the Gibraltar issue, and in terms of openness and variety, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been expressly invited to collaborate in this new Journal, an offer that has also been repeatedly made to the Government of Gibraltar and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. Convinced of the need for channels of dialogue and cooperation, we aim to make a very small and humble contribution to a better understanding of the legal, institutional and social problems posed by the Gibraltar problem to states and citizens in their daily lives, on both sides of the 'La Verja'. With this, we believe that this academic grain of sand can somehow help to facilitate understanding and cooperation between Gibraltar, Spain, the United Kingdom and the Campo de Gibraltar. But regardless of whether understanding and agreement are always possible and achievable, there is an aspect that is achieved with the mere launch of this biennial publication open to all, accessible and locatable on the Internet: the social function of university work, which, integrated into the environment, interacts with it; and for this, it offers the results of its research, training and dissemination structures to the social and human environment in which it is immersed. With this involvement in the territorial context of the Gibraltarian controversy, the mere analysis of everyday problems and proposals for solutions contributes decisively to the fulfillment of the university function, promoting the values of knowledge, plural debate, understanding, comprehension and the search for solutions, in places where History has left deep and very visible scars.

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