Columna La Opinión de Málaga, 22·02·21 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España, ex director del CNI y columnista
The European Union must face up to the real Russia
Editorial The Economist, 14.02.2021When Robert Conquest, a historian, was working on a new edition of “The Great Terror”, his seminal text on Stalin’s crimes, he was told to come up with a new title. The book had described the horrors of the Soviet Union at a time when apologism for it was still rife. By...
Nacional Populismo: O el asedio de la democracia
Blog POLIS: Política y Cultura, 18.01.2021 Fernando Mires, historiador, profesor (U. Oldenburg) y bloguista chileno
“Pensar el pasado como si fuera presente, pensar el presente como si fuera pasado”. La recomendación del historiador Ferdinand Braudel continua vigente. Desde esa perspectiva, los recientes acontecimientos que han tenido lugar en los... Europe’s Futile Search for Franco-German Leadership
Columna Project Syndicate, 15.10.2020 Josef Joffe, académico (Stanford University’s Hoover Institution) y miembro del consejo editor del Die Zeit
Recent foreign-policy differences have underlined the diverging interests of the European Union's two most powerful member states. And even if France and Germany were to march in lockstep, a bloc of 27 states bound by a unanimity requirement...
The Buck Stops with Putin
Artículo Project Syndicate, 17.09.2020 Nina L. Khruscheva, profesora de RR.II. (The New School) y académica (World Policy Institute)
Whether or not Russian President Vladimir Putin directly ordered the poisoning of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, he created the system that allowed it to happen – one that is ineffective, unaccountable, and prone to destabilization by rogue actors. The...
Los dos modelos
Columna El País, 20.09.2020 Mario Vargas LlosaUna de las tesis más controvertidas del liberalismo hoy es que, por primera vez en la historia de la humanidad, los países pueden elegir ser pobres o prósperos. Nunca antes aquello fue posible, porque la prosperidad dependía siempre de la cantidad de recursos con que contaba una nación, de su...
Shutting the door to China is self-defeating
Columna Indian Punchline, 01.08.2020 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe world economic news through last week must have sent shockwaves across North and South Block where India’s ministries of finance, defence and external affairs — and the Prime Minister’s Office — are located. The post-pandemic world order is knocking on the doors. On Friday, the European...
German FM to make urgent visit to Israel to warn against annexation
Reportaje Times of Israel, 05.06.2020 Redacción
Netanyahu said determined to move ahead with annexing parts of West Bank and is working on high-resolution maps, despite threat of EU sanctions, ambivalence from US
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is reportedly set to come to Israel on Wednesday for an urgent visit to warn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against annexing...From Naive to Realist? The EU’s Struggles With China
Artículo World Politics Review, 28.05.2020 Heather A. Conley, directora del Programa Europa (Center for Strategic and International Studies)[caption id="attachment_42360" align="alignright" width="405"]
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel inspect an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing,... El embajador Xu Bu en Chile y cómo la diplomacia china mundial se ha vuelto más opinante y agresiva
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Xu Bu, embajador chino en Chile. (Agencia Uno)[/caption]
En Chile el embajador extranjero más conocido ya no es el de Estados Unidos, sino el de China. Y no es solo porque el gobierno estadounidense no ha enviado a su representante desde hace más...