Columna La Opinion de Málaga, 26.11.2018 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de EspañaLo merece porque después de años de sufrimiento hay sobre la mesa una oportunidad para negociar un alto el fuego. Visité la zona cuando todavía eran dos países: uno que se titulaba república democrática y era una dictadura comunista con capital en Adén, y otro...
Presión sobre Irán
Editorial El Mercurio, 09.11.2018El gobierno de Estados Unidos ha sido directo y transparente al indicar las razones que tiene para reanudar todas las sanciones en contra de Irán, después de retirarse en mayo del acuerdo que firmaran en 2015 para detener el programa nuclear de los ayatolás: quiere ver colapsar la economía iraní para que el...
Two Major Middle East Projects Are Afoot & Gaining Mass; They May Collide Before Long
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 18.09.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y fundador del Conflicts Forum de BeirutOut from the ashes of the two mega projects of this expiring decade – i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) attempted Mideast take-over, and, contrarily, the Gulf project to rupture the MB - and to reconstitute hereditary, tribal absolutism (the ‘Arab System’) - two...
Is a ‘Suez’ Event Being Prepared for Syria?
Artículo Strategic-Culture.org, 01.09.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y director-fundador de Conflcts Forum (Beirut)So, the metamorphosis is done. President Trump has finally, fully, shed his 2016 Campaign ‘skin’ of loosely imagining a grand foreign policy bargain that could be the foundation for “WORLD PEACE, nothing less!” as Trump tweeted when imposing sanctions on Iran. We wrote, on 3...
The Next Mideast Explosion
Columna New York Daily News, 20.05.2018 Dennis B. Ross, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano del Washington Institute
An all-out war between Iran and Israel is approaching, and the Trump administration has no strategy for preventing it
The tinderbox that is the Middle East threatens to explode again. Consider what has happened in the last weeks: a direct military exchange...Quince años después de Irak
Columna El País, 02.04.2018 Javier Solana, ex ministro de RREE español, académico (Brookings Institution( y presidente de ESADEgeo
Privar al Estado Islámico de su territorio no eliminará la ideología que lo sustenta; es más, podría incluso afianzarla
Hace justo 15 años que dio comienzo uno de los episodios más aciagos de lo que llevamos de siglo: la Guerra de Irak....Los planes de Trump para Siria
Carta OpinionGlobal, 20.01.2018 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y cónsul honorario de Chile en BeirutWhile commemorating the first year of President Trump’s mandate and listening to various comments about his very unconventional policies, at home and worldwide, the Middle East has got its share, a harsh and bloody one. If a pseudo consensus between the USA and Iran...
Iran’s Efforts to Create Instability Abroad Have Led to Protests at Home
Artículo The National Interest, 11.01.2018 Colin P. Clarke (cientista político) y William Courtney (ex embajador y académico norteamericano)Participants in the countrywide protests in Iran are urging a retreat from costly foreign fights and more aid at home. Even if regime change does not take place, Tehran’s clerical rulers may have to pull in their horns. But if...
The US cannot stand alone in Middle East negotiations
Columna thehill.com, 10.01.2018 Dennis B. Ross, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Unrest in Iran has dominated news coming out of the Middle East for nearly two weeks. It is a big story, with protests spreading to nearly 80 cities
Iran looked less to be the behemoth whose reach could not be stopped in...Iranians Are Mad as Hell About Their Foreign Policy
Artículo Foreign Policy, 02.01.2017 Dennis B. Ross, embajador (r), ex negociador en el Medio Oriente y consejero del Washington Institute for Near East Policy