Presentation tomorrow Wednesday at 5:45 PM in the Embajadores room of Casa América of the book Geopolitics of Spanish, co-published by the Royal Spanish Academy and the Spanish Institute of Strategic Studies, dependent on the Higher Center for National Defense Studies, and prefaced by King Felipe VI.
The Spanish language is the greatest contribution that Spain has made to universal culture. Therefore, it does not belong only to it, but to all who use it. Today it is the mother tongue of 500 million people and the total number of its speakers amounts to nearly 600 million. At a time of profound transformation, in the process of constructing a new world order, the Spanish-speaking community has in the use of Castilian a formidable asset to promote understanding among its countries and consolidate its political, economic, and cultural development.
As King Felipe VI emphasizes in the preface to the work, Spanish is not “an exclusive identity, nor incompatible with others, nor at odds with particularism or diversity, for that which allows us to express ourselves, communicate, develop thought and beauty, and create culture can never be so.” This book proposes a geopolitical approach to the so-called language of Cervantes, which is also that of many other eminent intellectuals and writers.
Geopolitics of Spanish is a compilation of texts that brings together the voices of the director of the RAE and president of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (ASALE), Santiago Muñoz Machado; of the academics Carme Riera (deputy director), Juan Luis Cebrián (coordinator of the book), Miguel Sáenz, Paloma Díaz-Mas and Asunción Gómez-Pérez, and the general secretary of ASALE, Francisco Javier Pérez, as well as the academic, writer, and Cervantes Prize winner Sergio Ramírez.
These contributions are joined by those of Miguel Ballenilla and García de Gamarra, lieutenant general of the Army and director of CESEDEN; Felipe González, former president of the Government of Spain; Víctor Bados Nieto, brigadier general and director of the Spanish Institute of Strategic Studies; Federico Aznar Fernández-Montesinos, principal analyst of the Spanish Institute of Strategic Studies; Alejandro García Padilla, former governor of Puerto Rico; Antonio Navalón, journalist and writer; Rafael Fraguas, journalist, sociologist, and writer; Beatriz Sanz Alonso, professor of Spanish Language at the University of Valladolid; José Luis García Delgado, member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences; Núria Vilanova, president of the Business Council Alliance for Ibero-America (CEAPI); Carlos Vives, composer and singer, and Jaime Paz Zamora, former president of Bolivia.
León de la Torre, general director of Casa de América, will welcome alongside Santiago Muñoz Machado, director of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and president of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, and Miguel Ballenilla and García de Gamarra, Lieutenant General of the Army and director of CESEDEN (Higher Center for National Defense Studies).
Participating in the event will be Víctor Mario Bados Nieto, Brigadier General of the Army and director of the IEEE (Spanish Institute of Strategic Studies); Federico Aznar Fernández-Montesinos, frigate captain and principal analyst of the IEEE, and Sergio Ramírez, academic of the Nicaraguan Academy of Language, elected academic of the Royal Spanish Academy and Cervantes Prize winner. Moderating: Juan Luis Cebrián, academic of the Royal Spanish Academy and coordinator of the book Geopolitics of Spanish. Free entry until full capacity.
Number of pages: 264
Publisher: Espasa
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9788467079456
Price: 20.80 euros