Archivos de Categoría: Armamentismo

¿Por qué Estados Unidos pierde todas las guerras que comienza?

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Esglobal, 23.03.2018
Francis Ghilès, cientista político (Grenoble-Oxford) y analista internacional
[caption id="attachment_29077" align="alignnone" width="600"] Las fuerzas especiales de EE UU en el conflicto de Irak. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images[/caption]
  • Un profundo análisis del historial de guerra de Estados Unidos, años en los que el país ha seguido cometiendo errores...
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Putin’s new arms race is all about his need to be taken seriously

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The Guardian, 02.03.2018
Mark Galeotti, académico del Institute of International Relations-Prague
  • It may all have been bluff and braggadocio, but Russia’s president has little else left to motivate voters
[caption id="attachment_28377" align="alignright" width="440"] ‘Putin was not so much seeking to start a new arms race abroad, as trying to keep...
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La seguridad internacional depende de mayor diplomacia y menor rivalidad

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Infobae, 13.03.2018
Roberto García Moritán, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE argentino
La carrera armamentista encarada por las principales potencias es la mayor en la historia de la humanidad. La emergencia de China y el retorno de Rusia a la primera línea de la geopolítica, tras un período de introspección, marca una nueva dinámica en materia...
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Putin on the nukes

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Brookings, 02.03.2017
Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano del Center for 21st Century Security and
Intelligence
  • Vladimir Putin devoted one-third of his March 1 state of the union speech to new Russian weapons systems, particularly nuclear weapons that could strike the United States. What he said is worrisome, in part because it suggests he remains...
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Questions about the Nuclear Posture Review

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Brookimgs, 05.02.2018
Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano del Center for 21st Century Security and
Intelligence
The Pentagon on February 2 released the Trump administration’s nuclear posture review (NPR). The NPR describes the role the administration sees for nuclear weapons in U.S. national security policy and the specific weapons systems it believes necessary to support that posture. While...
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Order from Chaos: Arms and the men

Presentación
Brookings Testimonies, 16.01.2018
Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano (Center for 21st Century Security and
Intelligence-Center on the United States and Europe)
Nuclear arms control has been a central feature of the relationship between Washington and Moscow for some 50 years, but the nuclear arms control regime appears increasingly fragile. Several factors are placing the regime...
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La Casa Gibbs y el guano del Perú

Blog
Bradanovic Blogspot,02.03.2016
Tomás Bradanovic
Me encontré con una tesis muy entretenida escrita por Natalia Sobrevilla Perea de la Universidad de Londres, que trata sobre la economía del Perú antes de la Guerra del Pacífico. Es un tema que me interesa no solo porque sé poca historia del Perú sino que además mi abuelo...
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The Death of the INF Treaty Could Signal a U.S.-Russia Missile Race

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The National Interest, 06.12.2017
Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano del Brookings Arms Control and
Nonproliferation Initiative
The Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty marks its thirtieth anniversary on December 8. That could be one of its last. Russia has violated the treaty by deploying a prohibited ground-launched cruise missile. Congress has set the Department of Defense...
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Meet Kim Yo-jong, the sister who is the brains behind Kim Jong-un’s image

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The Guardian, 09.10.2017
Justin McCurran
  • North Korean leader’s sibling is about 30, and a computing graduate turned propagandist who has helped her brother cement his grip on power
Kim Yo-jong’s promotion to the politburo of North Korea’s workers’ party is a sign that Kim Jong-un has absolute trust in his younger sister – rumoured to be the brains behind his carefully...
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North Korea: Kim Jong-un promotes sister Kim Yo-jong to centre of power

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The Guardian, 08.10.2017
(Reuters)
  • Promotion further consolidates family’s power as leader says nation’s nuclear weapons are a ‘powerful deterrent’
[caption id="attachment_23230" align="alignright" width="400"] North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (right) accompanied by younger sister, Kim Yo-jong. KCNA/EPA[/caption] North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has promoted his sister Kim Yo-jong to the politburo – the nation’s...
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