Columna OpinionGlobal, 01.04.2016 Enrique Subercaseaux, ex diplomático y gestor culturalDe las muchas imágenes de la reciente visita del Presidente Obama a Cuba, me quedo con el puñado de calles que fueron repavimentadas para hacerlas más transitables para la nutrida comitiva de Estados Unidos. La población celebro el hecho porque, todo hay que decirlo, la decrepitud de la...
La confusión de Estados Unidos en un mundo desordenado
Reseña de libro [Henry A Kissinger en Orden mundial. Debate, Barcelona 2016] Política Exterior, N*170 (marzo-abril 2016 Manuel Muñiz, director programa Relaciones Transatlánticas (U. de Harvard)¿Cuál será la forma y el contenido del orden mundial en el siglo XXI? El recorrido de Kissinger por 2.000 años de relaciones internacionales resulta demasiado rígido a la hora de alumbrar...
The Obama Doctrine
Reportaje The Atlantic, abril 2016 Jeffrey Goldberg
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The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
China’s Coming Ideological Wars
Artículo Foreign Policy, 01.03.2016 Taisu Zhang
In the reform era, economic growth reigned supreme. But now, a revival of competing beliefs has polarized Chinese society.
For most Chinese, the 1990s were a period of intense material pragmatism. Economic development was the paramount social and political concern, while the... Taiwan’s White Terror
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 28.02.2016 Thomas Vien and Evan Rees[caption id="attachment_22427" align="alignnone" width="921"]
Nationalist officials scuffle with a black market cigarette vendor — the event that sparked nationwide protests Feb. 28,... The China-North Korea Relationship
Artículo CFR Backgrounder, 08.02.2016 Eleanor Albert y Beina Xu[caption id="attachment_22009" align="alignnone" width="921"]
Chinese Communist Party official Liu Yunshan with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang. Photo: Kyodo/Reuters[/caption]
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China is North Korea’s most important ally,...Framing China’s Fuure (V): What Kind of Power Will China Become?
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 03.02.2016Summary These are grim times for the Chinese economy. In the two years since property markets peaked and subsequently began to slow in most cities across China, it has become abundantly clear that the approach to economic management that sustained double-digit annual growth for two decades has exhausted itself. The unprecedented stock market volatility of...
Framing China’s Future (III): Imagining a Democratic China
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 02.12.2015Summary China's Communist Party is locked in a struggle for political legitimacy. For most of the past three decades, economic growth has buoyed the party and underwritten its promises of full employment and ever-improving material conditions for the majority of Chinese. But that growth is slowing. As the country's export- and investment-led growth model...
Framing China’s Future (IV): The High Stakes of Having a Job in China
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 08.01.2016Summary Understanding employment is fundamental to understanding how contemporary China works. The need to maintain near-universal employment — or at least the appearance of it — forms the bedrock of Chinese political economy. It structures the financial system, long-term industrial policy, the incentive structure for bureaucrats and everything in between. Strikingly, post-Mao Chinese policy...
Bienvenidos al fin de una era: el error crítico que ha cometido EEUU
Opinión El Confidencial, 26.01.2016 Marcos Díaz, experto en diplomacia, relaciones internacionales y política exterior
- EEUU ya no tiene la capacidad de gobernar el mundo en solitario sin atender las condiciones exigidas por el resto de las potencias. Simple y llanamente, el modelo estratégico se ha derrumbado