Opinión OpenDemocracy, 20.08.2015 Yasmeen Al-Khoudary, estudiante de magister en Cultural Heritage Studies (University College London)A letter from Gaza, describing the impossibility of getting back to 'normal' one year after the war. Real change is needed before it is too late.One year after we went through the third war on the Gaza Strip in six years, I find...
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“The Iranian Threat” Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?
Artículo TomDispatch, 20.08.2015 Noam Chomsky, académico y profesor emeritus del Departamento de Linguística y Filosofía (MIT)Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the UN Security Council and Germany. Most of the world apparently shares the...
Does the Legality of Nuclear War Matter?
Artículo War on the Rocks, 19.08.2015 Butch Bracknell, ex marine, abogado internacional y miembro del Truman National Security Project's Defense Council (University of Virginia)The seven-decade anniversary of the end of the Second World War gives us good reasons to reflect on the use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict and what...
Japan and Chinese Decision-Making
Artículo The Diplomat, 12.08.2015 Charles Douglas Appleton, asistente de investigación de Rebuilt Japan Initiative FoundationUnderstanding China’s decision-making process could help Japan create a better strategy.
“Our best chance of avoiding antagonism with China is to open up the black box of Chinese domestic politics, look inside, and figure out what makes China act as it...
Why the Next Fighter Will Be Manned, and the One After That
Ensayo War on the Rocks, 05.08.2015 Mike Pietrucha, coronel oficial de la fuerza aerea de EEUU e instructor de guerra electrónicaSometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it — often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early...
Nuremberg Trials Leave Behind Potent, Flawed Legacy
Artículo Deutsche Welle, 08.08.2015 Ben KnightThe Nuremberg trials of the Nazi leadership sparked a new era of international law and cooperation. They were founded on the London Charter, a visionary statute signed by the Allies on August 8, 1945.In the middle of a city that had officially been categorized as "90-percent dead" a few months before, 21...
America’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 Years Later
Ensayo OpenDemocracy, 06.08.2015 Tom Engelhardt (co-fundador del American Empire Project) y Christian Appy (profesor de historiaUniversity of Massachusetts)Will an American president ever offer a formal apology? Will our country ever regret the dropping of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,” those two bombs that burned hotter than the sun?So many decades later, it’s hard to remember the kind...
Hiroshima, 70 Years Later: Did Truman Make the Right Call?
Artículo The National Interest, 06.08.2015 James Holmes, profesor de estrategia (Naval War College)Huddle up with Teddy Roosevelt, Clausewitz, and Wylie—and then you be the judge. Retrospectives on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki conjure up Theodore Roosevelt for me. That goes double when the anniversary is a multiple of ten—as it is today, the seventieth anniversary of...
An Insane Ambition Which is Turning Into a Civil War: Clinton, Juppé, Erdoğan, Daesh and the PKK
Artículo Voltaire Network, 03.08.2015 Thierry Meyssan, académico e intelectual francés especializado en relaciones internacionales; presidente de Voltaire NetworkThe resumption of the repression of Kurds in Turkey is nothing more than a consequence of the impossible task of implementing the Juppé-Wright plan of 2011. While it was easy to deploy Daesh in the Syrian desert and the...
The Geopolitics of the Syrian Civil War
Análisis Geopolitical Weekly, 24.01.2014 Reva Bhalla, analista de seguridad con MBA (Georgetown University)International diplomats will gather Jan. 22 in the Swiss town of Montreux to hammer out a settlement designed to end Syria's three-year civil war. The conference, however, will be far removed from the reality on the Syrian battleground. Only days before the conference was scheduled...