Artículo Foreign Policy, 04.06.2022 Tatiana Stanovaya, académica (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) y CEO (R.Politik)One of the reasons it’s so difficult to understand Russian intentions—and what is at stake in the Ukraine war—is the significant divergence between how external observers see events and how they are viewed from the Kremlin. Things that appear obvious to some,...
A new nuclear era
Editorial The Economist, 02.06.2022
With his threats to use the bomb, Russia’s president has overturned the nuclear orderOne hundred days ago Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine by warning of a nuclear strike. Having exalted Russia’s atomic arsenal and promised Ukraine’s subjugation, he threatened countries tempted to interfere with consequences “such as you have never...
Sweden and Finland’s NATO Bids Hit a Roadblock Named Erdogan
Columna World Politics Review, 23.05.2022 Paul Poast, profesor de ciencia política y académico del Chicago Council on Global AffairsAs of last week, NATO seemed well on its way to expanding, when Finland and Sweden formally submitted their applications for membership. When they officially join, becoming the 31st and 32nd member of the alliance, it could potentially...
El «todos para uno y uno para todos» vuelve a funcionar como en los... La doctrina de la contención, actualizada por la invasión a Ucrania
Columna Clarín, 10.05.2022 Juan Battaleme, profesor de RRII (UBA-UCEMA)George Kennan, embajador estadounidense en Moscú, escribió en los albores de la Guerra Fría “El largo telegrama”, núcleo de la Estrategia de la contención, que estableció las acciones necesarias en el plano político y militar para enfrentar a la Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, conocido como el Documento...
Ni movilización total de tropas ni declaración formal de guerra a Ucrania: las claves del esperado discurso de Putin en el Día de la Victoria
Crónica La Tercera, 09.05.2022 Fernando Fuentes
Sin hacer "grandes anuncios", el presidente ruso justificó la invasión como la “única decisión posible para un país fuerte e independiente” y comparó a los soldados rusos que combaten en el Donbás con los de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.Envuelto en una retórica belicista sin hablar de la situación sobre el terreno...
What Finland can offer NATO
Artículo Foreign Policy, 18.04.2022 Elisabeth Braw, columnista de Foreign Policy y académica en American Enterprise Institute
The end of neutrality for a famously neutral country would be a blow to Putin and enhance the alliance’s intelligence capabilitiesIn Johan Ludvig Runeberg's The Tales of Ensign Staal, Finland's national epic about the 1808-09 war between Sweden (of which Finland...
Vladimir Putin habla de ‘desnazificar’ Ucrania. ¿Por qué?
Columna The New York Times, 17.04.2022 Anton Troianovski
El surgimiento del insulto “nazi” muestra cómo el presidente de Rusia intenta utilizar estereotipos, una realidad distorsionada y el trauma persistente de la Segunda Guerra Mundial para justificar su invasión.[caption id="attachment_60158" align="alignleft" width="450"]
Vallas publicitarias que citan al presidente de Rusia, en... The U.N. Doesn’t Have to Be a Casualty of the War in Ukraine
Artículo World Politics Review, 11.04.2022 Stewart Patrick, académico del Council on Foreign RelationsLast week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an impassioned rebuke to the United Nations Security Council for its failure to prevent Russia’s invasion of his country. “Where is the security that the Security Council needs to guarantee?” he demanded. “It’s not there.” Rather than taking...
Opposing China Means Defeating Russia
Artículo Foreign Policy, 05.04.2022 Hal Brands, historiador y professor de asuntos globales (Escuela de Estudios Internacionales-U. Johns Hopkins)
Moscow’s war isn’t a distraction. It’s part and parcel of the threat posed by BeijingLocal crises can trigger searching debates over global strategy. Since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded Ukraine, analysts in Washington have been debating which of...