Opinión El País, 26.06.2015 Fernando Reinares, catedrático (U. Rey Juan Carlos) y director Programa sobre Terrorismo Global (RIE)El Estado Islámico tiene recursos para planear ataques en cadena. Los atentados de este viernes forman parte de una estrategia global Así, como dice el título, lo afirma el llamado Estado Islámico (EI) en el más reciente número de su órgano...
A Net Assessment on the Middle East
Análisis Geopolitical Weekly, 09.06.2015 George Friedman, fundador y presidente Stratfor Global IntelligenceThe term "Middle East" has become enormously elastic. The name originated with the British Foreign Office in the 19th century. The British divided the region into the Near East, the area closest to the United Kingdom and most of North Africa; the Far East, which was...
ISIS and the Shia Revival in Iraq
Artículo The New York Review of Books, 04.06.2015 Nicolas Pelham“We’re ridding the world of polytheism, and spreading monotheism across the planet,” an ISIS preacher recently said in a video recording. Behind him one could see the ISIS faithful using sledgehammers, bulldozers, and explosives to destroy the eighth-century-BC citadel of the Assyrian king Sargon II at Khorsabad, ten...