Informe The Economist, 25.10.2022
ISIS Isn’t Back. It Never Went Away
Columna World Politics Review, 28.01.2022 Mel Pavlik, estudiante de doctorado en ciencia política (U. de Yale)At its height half a decade ago, the Islamic State was among the most feared armed organizations in the world. The infamously brutal group had at one point captured and established governance of more than a third of Iraq and large...
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Columna Indian Punchline, 03.01.2022 M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indio
Blowback from Afghanistan
Reports of the recent period are indicative of tensions between the Taliban forces and the Pakistani military deployed on their border. On December 22, the Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman Enayatullah Khwarazmi disclosed that the Taliban forces had stopped the Pakistani military from erecting an...Taliban Splintered by Internal Divisions, External Spoilers
Artículo Foreign Policy, 12.11.2021 Lynne O’Donnell, periodista y columnista australiana.The unity that catapulted the Taliban to victory in Afghanistan is splintering under the pressure of internal divisions that could threaten the group’s survival if rivals cannot mend their differences while dealing with the realities of running a troubled country. Against a backdrop of looming economic and humanitarian...
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Columna Indian Punchline, 02.11.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indio
India plays Russian cardThe chances were slim that the Pakistani National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf would accept the invitation from his counterpart Ajit Doval to a regional meet of security tsars in New Delhi to discus the situation in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Nonetheless, the dismissive manner in...
India’s Taliban Problem
Columna Project Syndicate, 05.10.2021 Shashi Tharoor, Shashi Tharoor, diputado indio, ex subsecretary general de ONU y ex ministroThe Taliban’s victory over the United States in Afghanistan will not only greatly embolden their fellow jihadists, but also shake up the region’s geopolitics. In particular, an Afghanistan-Pakistan-China axis involving policy coordination would represent a major risk for India. In...
The Lie of Nation Building
Reseña The New York Review of Books, 07.10.2021 Fintan O’Toole, columnista (The Irish Times) y profesor (Princeton)
From the very beginning, the problem with the US involvement in Afghanistan lay essentially in the deficits in American democracy
Libros reseñados : -The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War de Craig Whitlock. Simon and Schuster, NY 2021 -The...
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Blog Indian Punchline, 13.10.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioMoscow has categorically stated that it will not accept a US military presence in the Central Asian region. This reiteration has come at the level of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov who told Tass that Afghanistan had been discussed at a meeting with Victoria Nuland,...
The Failure in Afghanistan Is Worse Than in Vietnam
Artículo The Wall Street Journal, 02.10.2021 William Lloyd Stearman, ex miembro del Consejo de Seguridad Nacional
Southeast Asia didn’t fall to communism, and Saigon came closer to winning than reported.Many have compared America’s defeat in Afghanistan to Vietnam. But the comparison is unfair to Vietnam. The U.S. became involved in Vietnam primarily to counter the communist threat...
The Taliban’s Comeback Is a Conundrum for Iran
Artículo World Politics Review, 13.09.2021 Dina Esfandiary, asesora principal para Medio Oriente y NorÁfrica (International Crisis Group)[caption id="attachment_57929" align="alignright" width="500"]
Taliban fighters outside Kabul University in Sept. 11, 2021 (AP/Bernat Armangue).[/caption]
No one in the Iranian government was sad to see U.S. and NATO troops leave Afghanistan. In fact, Tehran...