Archivos de Categoría: China

The World’s Rising Powers Have Fallen

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 06.07.2016
Suzanne Nossel, director ejecutiva del Pen American Center
There will be no bloc of “emerging economies” rising up to challenge the Western order. But what comes next may be more chaotic and dangerous. [caption id="attachment_30769" align="alignnone" width="750"]rising-power-has-fallen Photo Credit: NELSON ALMEIDA / Staff[/caption] As analysts and scholars compose their...
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Framing China’s Future (VII): What Prussia’s Rise Can Teach China

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 27.06.2016
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Analysis

Between 1864 and 1871, something extraordinary happened in the heart of Europe. In three short wars, each following hot on the heels of the last, the Continent's great powers failed to unite to contain an ascendant Prussia. The failure to...
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South China Sea (I): A Legal Analysis of China’s Maritime Claims

Artículo
The Diplomat, 16.06.2016
Captain Tuan N. Pham, oficial de marina norteamericano
  • How China seeks to shape maritime law to legitimize its claims
A year and a half ago, the contested South China Sea (SCS) was awash in international intrigues and legal maneuverings. On December 7, 2014, two days after the U.S. State Department released Washington’s legal views on...
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South China Sea (II): After the Ruling

Artículo
The Diplomat, 17.06.2016
Capitán Tuan N. Pham, oficial de marina norteamericano
  • The long-awaited Tribunal’s merits ruling will come soon. What happens then?
In Part 1, I examined Chinese legal opinions regarding the Philippines-initiated arbitration case against China’s expansive nine-dash line (NDL) claim in the South China Sea (SCS). In short, the intent of Beijing’s legal position paper on the...
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La politique étrangère européenne: quel bilan?

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La Revue Geopolitique, 02.06.2016
Maxime Lefebvre, diplomático francés y profesor (Sciences Po)
  • Voici un bilan inédit de l’action de l’Union européenne en matière de politique étrangère. A la fois ample et précis, Maxime Lefebvre sait distinguer l’essentiel de l’accessoire. Il brosse un tableau nuancé et dynamique. Voici un document de référence pour qui veut avoir une vue...
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The Beginning of the End of the British Empire

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 14.02.2016
 

Analysis

On Jan. 31, 1942, Allied engineers blew a hole in the causeway linking the island city of Singapore to the Malay Peninsula, hoping to slow the advancement of the Japanese Imperial troops down the coastline. The blast resounded throughout the city. As the story goes, 19-year-old university student and future prime minister of...
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Trump, Putin y el atractivo del hombre fuerte

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El Deber, 22.05.2016
Gideon Rachman, periodista y analista internacional del Financial Times
El auge de Donald Trump ha estado acompañado de murmullos predecibles de ‘solo en EEUU’. Pero el fenómeno Trump se entiende mejor como parte de una tendencia mundial: el retorno del ‘hombre fuerte’ a la política internacional. En lugar de encabezar el proceso, EEUU ha...
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What China Owes a Bygone Era

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 19.05.2016
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Summary

Since the end of the Cold War, international politics has been defined by the rise of universal human rights as norms. The leading world power, the United States, has used human rights rhetoric to pursue its global interests, citing it in plans to...
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A son of the Cultural Revolution

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Project-Syndicate, 10.05.2016
Mia Jian, escritor chino
Fifty years ago this month, Mao Zedong launched China’s Cultural Revolution – a decade of chaos, persecution, and violence, carried out in the name of ideology and in the interest of expanding Mao’s personal power. Yet, instead of reflecting on that episode’s destructive legacy, the Chinese government is limiting all discussion...
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Who Is Xi?

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New York Review of Books, Vol.63 (8) 12.05.2016
Andrew J. Nathan
[caption id="attachment_26866" align="alignnone" width="624"]Xi Jinping Xi Jinping[/caption] More than halfway through his five-year term as president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party—expected to be the first of at least two—Xi Jinping’s widening...
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