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The Obama Doctrine

The Obama Doctrine
Reportaje
The Atlantic, abril 2016
Jeffrey Goldberg
  • The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
Friday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America’s reign as the world’s sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obama peered into the Middle Eastern abyss and stepped back...
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Liberal, Harsh Denmark

Liberal, Harsh Denmark
  
Artículo
New York Review of Books, Vol.63 (4) 10.03.2016
Hugh Eakin
[caption id="attachment_22913" align="alignnone" width="1600"]A cartoon published by the Danish newspaper Politiken showing Inger Støjberg, the country’s integration minister, lighting candles on a Christmas tree that has a dead asylum-­seeker as an ornament, December 2015 (Anne-Marie Steen Petersen) A cartoon published...
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Viaje al origen de la guerra

Opinión
El País, 07.02.2016
Guillermo Altares
  • Nuevos hallazgos indican que los conflictos bélicos son anteriores a las sociedades organizadas
La guerra forma parte de la cultura de la humanidad. Las sociedades veneran a sus guerreros, les dedican monumentos y nombres de calles (una nomenclatura no siempre libre de polémica, como se puede comprobar en Madrid). Los textos literarios más...
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Rwanda and Paul Kagame’s lust for power

Editorial
The Guardian, 03.01.2016
  • The president and his ilk are damaging Africa by hanging on to power
One of the least surprising New Year’s announcements was that by Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, who declared he had decided to seek a third term in 2017. In a televised address notable for its condescension and wholly misplaced sense of noblesse oblige, Kagame suggested...
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The Eastern Congo

Resumen ejecutivo CFR "InfoGuide" Presentation, 13.12.2015
  • The eastern Congo has been ravaged by foreign invasions and homegrown rebellions that have killed and displaced millions.
  • A fragile peace process seeks to bring stability to central Africa, but its hard-won gains remain at risk.
For nearly two decades, the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have...
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Africa: A Continent Ahead of and Behind Its Time

Análisis
Global Affairs, 02.12.2015
Ian Morris
A few weeks ago, I spoke at a conference on the history of poverty. I talked about my most recent book, Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve, which describes how sources of energy, forms of social organization and systems of values have co-evolved across the past 20,000 years. Things seemed...
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España vs. Marruecos en el Sahara Occidental

El Sahara marroquí, en desarrollo

Cada 6 de noviembre, los marroquíes conmemoramos el aniversario de la Marcha Verde, que permitió a Marruecos recuperar provincias del Sahara que conforman una parte muy emblemática de su territorio, ya que no sólo fueron el origen de varias dinastías que gobernaron el país en siglos pasados, sino que...
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A Gun Smuggler’s Lamment

Reportaje
Foreign Policy, 05.10.2015
Elizabeth Dickinson, periodista con estudios africanos de la U. de Yale
Perched in a seaside villa in eastern Tunisia, Osama Kubbar had anxiously waited for days for the final news about his guns. It was May 2011, five months into the Arab Spring, and Kubbar, a Libyan smuggler, was remotely tracking the slow movements...
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What’s the Point of Peacekeepers When they Don’t Keep the Peace?

What’s the Point of Peacekeepers When they Don’t Keep the Peace?
Artículo
The Guardian, 17.09.2015
Chris McGreal, escritor senior
From Rwanda to Bosnia, Haiti to Congo, failures raise questions about future of United Nations blue helmets
Rwanda, 1994. The nadir of many lows for UN peacekeeping. Hundreds of desperate Tutsis sought refuge on the first day of the genocide at a school where 90 UN troops were under the command of...
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