Análisis Security Weekly, 05.05.2016 Scott StewartMay 2 marked the five-year anniversary of the U.S. raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. In the wake of that operation, we noted that while bin Laden's death fulfilled a sense...
Siria o la manera de destruir un Estado
Columna El Líbero, 26.03.2016 Juan Salazar Sparks, cientista político, embajador (r) y director ejecutivo de CEPERIEn marzo del 2011 se iniciaron las primeras protestas contra el gobierno del Bashar al-Asad en la localidad sureña de Deraa (Siria), que fueron reprimidas sangrientamente y originaron un levantamiento popular. Al cabo de cinco años, la guerra civil ha evolucionado hacia...
The Obama Doctrine
Reportaje The Atlantic, abril 2016 Jeffrey Goldberg
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The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
Diez guerras que no debes perder de vista (II)
Columna El Confidencial, 09.02.2016 José Zorrilla
- Diez áreas de conflicto que deben seguirse con cuidado, ya sea por sus implicaciones estratégicas o humanitarias. Y la mayoría están siendo golpeadas por el terrorismo yihadista
‘Los yihadistas consideran a Europa el punto flaco de Occidente’
Entrevista [Gilles Kepel, filósofo y sociólogo arabista frances] El País, 14.12.2015 Álex Vicente
- ¿Cuándo y dónde nació la yihad?
- ¿Cómo ha evolucionado?
- ¿Por qué ataca a Europa?
- ¿Quiénes son los terroristas que matan en nombre del islam?
La guerra, manual de instrucciones
Opinión El País, 17.11.2015 Bernard-Henri Levy, filósofo francés
- Hay que llamar a las cosas por su nombre y tratar al enemigo como tal.
- La alternativa está clara: si no hay tropas en su terreno tendremos más sangre en el nuestro
Countering a Shapeless Terrorist Threat
Análisis Security Weekly, 10.09.2015 Scott StewartLast week's Security Weekly discussed how the digital revolution has allowed terrorist operatives employing leaderless resistance methods to act as their own media. For groups such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State, this ability greatly enhances the effectiveness of propaganda. At the same time, however, the information disseminated benefits authorities by providing valuable...
Could the Islamic State and al Qaeda Reconcile?
Análisis Security Weekly, 23.04.2015 Scott StewartOver the course of the past couple weeks I have talked to several people who have asked my opinion on the possibility of a reconciliation between al Qaeda and the Islamic State. The question is being brought about by a number of factors. First is the fact that the Islamic State is losing...
Mantra for 9/11: Fourteen Years Later, Improbable World
Artículo TomDispatch, 08.09.2015 Tom Engelhardt, co-fundador del American Empire Project y miembro del National InstituteFourteen years later and do you even believe it? Did we actually live it? Are we still living it? And how improbable is that? Fourteen years of wars, interventions, assassinations, torture, kidnappings, black sites, the growth of the American national security state to monumental...
Yemen in Meltdown: Domestic and Regional Competitions and the Destruction of Nationhood
Artículo IDSA (Special Feature), 12.08.2015 Talmiz Ahmad, embajador (r) indioIn the third week of July 2015, the port, airport and presidential palace in Aden, the historic city at the mouth of the Red Sea, fell into the hands of forces representing the ousted Yemeni president, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, marking the first success in the counter-assault mounted...