Artículo Aeon, 25.01.2016 Sean McFate, profesor del National Defense University (Washington, DC)
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Two centuries ago, public armies replaced private ones as the dominant tool of warfare. Now, private armies are back
Zimbabwe’s Begging Bowl: Bailing out Bandits
Editorial The Economist, 09.07.2016 The IMF is ready to throw the Mugabe regime a lifeline.Bad idea “RIGHT now we literally have nothing,” Zimbabwe’s finance minister told French radio. Patrick Chinamasa was touring European capitals this week begging for money from donors. The “we” he was referring to was presumably not President Robert Mugabe’s inner circle, who between...
Relaciones EEUU-Cuba: ¿sentido común o ligereza irresponsable?
Artículo La Ilustración Liberal, N*63 (Primavera 2015) Carlos Alberto MontanerSiete advertencias finales sobre la nueva política cubana de Obama Éste es uno de esos raros casos en los que conviene comenzar por el final. Estos papeles están dedicados a contar rápidamente cómo han sido las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y Cuba desde 1959 a la fecha, con el...
Learning from Namibia
Columna Project-Syndicate, 14.06.2016 Joseph E. Stiglitz, premio Nóbel de Economía (2001) y Anya Schiffrin, directora communicaciones (Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs)Sandwiched between Angola and South Africa, Namibia suffered mightily during the long struggle against apartheid. Yet, since winning independence from South Africa in 1990, this country of 2.4 million people has achieved enormous gains,...
Nigeria’s Peace Talks Are Doomed From the Start
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A billboard displays an advertisement about pipeline vandalism... La politique étrangère européenne: quel bilan?
Análisis La Revue Geopolitique, 02.06.2016 Maxime Lefebvre, diplomático francés y profesor (Sciences Po)
- Voici un bilan inédit de l’action de l’Union européenne en matière de politique étrangère. A la fois ample et précis, Maxime Lefebvre sait distinguer l’essentiel de l’accessoire. Il brosse un tableau nuancé et dynamique. Voici un document de référence pour qui veut avoir une vue...
Isabel dos Santos, reine du pétrole d’Angola
Reportaje Libération, 04.06.2016 Mégane De Amorim, periodista brasileña (U. Católica Río de Janeiro-Sciences Po)
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La fille du président angolais a pris la tête de la compagnie pétrolière publique Sonangol
Mozambique’s Invisible Civil War
Artículo Foreign Policy, 06.05.2016 Tom Bowker, Simon Kamm y Aurelio Sambo
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The government says everything’s fine. But that’s not what we heard from its victims.
On April 28, local and Portuguese news outlets reported the discovery of a mass grave in central Mozambique containing some 120 bodies. A hasty inspection by local... How the World’s Hardest-Working Dictator Won Re-election
Artículo Foreign Policy, 05.05.2016 Siobhán O'Grady, periodista norteamericana
In 1979, Francisco Macías Nguema was enjoying his 11th year in power as president for life in Equatorial Guinea — a tiny, former Spanish colony in central Africa. All in all, things had been going well for the merciless dictator, who... Authoritarianism in Eritrea and the Migrant Crisis
Análisis CFR Backgorunder, 11.11.2015 Zachary Laub, escritor y editor