Artículo National Interest, 05.08.2015 Sameer Lalwani, postdoctoral fellow en la RAND CorporationPakistan is often characterized as a belligerent, unyielding, and destabilizing force in international affairs. But despite longstanding and widespread negative perceptions, Pakistani behavior and strategic culture is changing for the better in important respects, as recently exemplified by anti-Taliban operations in the country’s North Waziristan region...
Debating the Morality of Hiroshima
Análisis Geopolitical Weekley, 11.08.2015 George Friedman, presidente de Stratfor Global IntelligenceEach year at this time — the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima — the world pauses. The pause is less to mourn the dead than to debate a moral question: whether the bombing was justified and, by extension, whether the United States unnecessarily slaughtered tens of...
Las otras armas de destrucción masiva
Artículo Estudios de Política Exterior, 06.08.2015 Jaime TorrojaCon el paso de los siglos, el ser humano ha ido refinando cada vez más los instrumentos que emplea para eliminar a aquellos que le son odiosos. El pináculo de la industria de la muerte quizá sean aquellas armas que tienen el terrorífico nombre de Armas de Destrucción Masiva (WMD...
America’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 Years Later
Ensayo OpenDemocracy, 06.08.2015 Tom Engelhardt (co-fundador del American Empire Project) y Christian Appy (profesor de historiaUniversity of Massachusetts)Will an American president ever offer a formal apology? Will our country ever regret the dropping of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,” those two bombs that burned hotter than the sun?So many decades later, it’s hard to remember the kind...
Hiroshima, 70 Years Later: Did Truman Make the Right Call?
Artículo The National Interest, 06.08.2015 James Holmes, profesor de estrategia (Naval War College)Huddle up with Teddy Roosevelt, Clausewitz, and Wylie—and then you be the judge. Retrospectives on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki conjure up Theodore Roosevelt for me. That goes double when the anniversary is a multiple of ten—as it is today, the seventieth anniversary of...
Acuerdo nuclear con Irán
Blog La Tercera, 20.07.2015 Juan Francisco Coloane, sociólogo y analista internacionalEl 14 de julio pasado, después de dos años de negociaciones, el grupo de potencias denominado Grupo 5 + 1, formado por China, Estados Unidos, Francia, Reino Unido y Alemania ha logrado lo que décadas de tensión y desestabilización colateral no habían logrado. Consiste en un acuerdo...
The Koreas, Bastion of Cold War Realism
Artículo The Diplomat, 25.06.2015 Morgan Potts, editor del British Association for Korean StudiesA reluctant but pragmatic defense of neorealism in Northeast Asia. Nuclear crises, propaganda and espionage, a clash of ideologies – the Korean peninsula is the only place in the world where the Cold War lingers. This persistence is the result of the 1953 Armistice Agreement and...
Imperial Ambitions: Russia’s Military Buildup
Ensayo World Affairs, junio 2015 Stephen Blank, miembro de American Foreign Policy CouncilIn September 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted that he could, at will, occupy any Eastern European capital in two days. This apparently spontaneous utterance reveals, probably more than Russia’s new official defense doctrine, Moscow’s true assessment of NATO’s capabilities, cohesion, and will to resist....
Una bomba nuclear saudita?
Columna La Razón, 20.06.2015 Fareed Zakaria, analista internacional¿No podría Arabia Saudita simplemente comprar una bomba nuclear? Eso es altamente improbable De los distintos aspectos desconcertantes respecto al futuro de Medio Oriente, no cabe duda de que una carrera de armas nucleares estaría a la cabeza. Para alimentar aún más esta inquietud, el reino de Arabia Saudita ha estado...
The Russian Military
Artículo CFR Backgrounder, 20.03.2015 Jonathan Masters, editor adjuntoIntroduction The Russian military suffered years of neglect after the Soviet collapse and no longer casts the shadow of a global superpower. However, the Russian armed forces are in the midst of a historic overhaul with significant consequences for Eurasian politics and security. Russian officials say the reforms are necessary to...