Columna Indian Punchline, 06.10.2022 M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indioThe inconclusive outcome of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s phone call with Ukraine President Vladymyr Zelensky on Wednesday could have been easily foretold. The initiative simply didn’t make sense. Before Modi’s call, Zelensky had already sought a fast-track NATO membership in a dramatic move underscoring that Kiev is...
El coste de no saber ponerse el velo
Blog Republica, 04.10.2022 Inocencio F. Arias, embajador (r) y columnista español
El velo se ha erigido en el símbolo de las protestas que desde hace días sacuden Irán
La joven iraní de 22 años que resultó muerta y ha provocado un estallido en su país fue detenida por la policía de costumbres por llevar el velo de forma...El programa nuclear de Irán, en una fase inquietante para la seguridad internacional
Columna Clarín, 14.06.2022 Roberto García Moritán, embajador (r), ex viceministro de RREE argentino y profesor (UB)El programa nuclear de Irán se encuentra en una fase inquietante para la seguridad internacional. El desmantelamiento de parte del sistema de vigilancia (27 cámaras y otros equipos de monitoreo) del Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA) enciende alarmas sobre los...
An appalling slur on the civilisation state that is India
Blog Indian Punchline, 06.06.2022 M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indioThe outrage in the Muslim world over the transgression of the red line in anti-Muslim politics in India is understandable, although the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party acted swiftly for damage control. The point is, the world has taken note that anti-Muslim politics has reached a crescendo...
Engagement With China Was Always a Long Shot
Artículo Foreign Policy, 12.05.2022 Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
As the Cold War drew to a close, the United States and the other liberal democracies opened their doors to China in the belief that, by doing so, they would cause its system...Beijing’s Leninist regime is fundamentally resistant to change.
Central Asia Is Keeping a Nervous Eye on Russia’s War in Ukraine
Artículo World Politics Review, 26.04.2022 Jeffrey Mankoff, académico (Institute for National Strategic Studies-U.S. National Defense University)Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is upending the geopolitical calculations of states around the world. The fallout is especially complex for the post-Soviet states of Central Asia, which maintain extensive economic, political, cultural and other ties to both Russia and Ukraine. While...
Sri Lankan situation is fraught with danger
Columna Indian Punchline, 15.05.2022 M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r), profesor y columnista indioIndia finds itself between the rock and a hard place in its approach to the Sri Lankan crisis. There is no question that the government attributes primacy to Sri Lanka remaining a practising democracy. But the developing situation in that country is going to be...
US plays QUAD card during Beijing Olympics
Blog Indian Punchline, 05.02.2022 M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indioThe appalling decision by the External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to huddle together with his QUAD colleagues bang in the middle of the Beijing Winter Olympics may have unpleasant consequences. China sees QUAD as a US-led clique working to “contain” it. An action-reaction syndrome has once again...
Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-31
Columna Indian Punchline, 02.11.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indio
India plays Russian cardThe chances were slim that the Pakistani National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf would accept the invitation from his counterpart Ajit Doval to a regional meet of security tsars in New Delhi to discus the situation in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Nonetheless, the dismissive manner in...
Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-27
Blog Indian Punchline, 13.10.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioMoscow has categorically stated that it will not accept a US military presence in the Central Asian region. This reiteration has come at the level of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov who told Tass that Afghanistan had been discussed at a meeting with Victoria Nuland,...