Columna Project Syndicate, 04.02.2022 Slawomie Sierakowski, fundador del Krytyka Polityczna y académico (German Council on Foreign Relations)If Ukrainians often seem to be resigned to the inevitability of war, that is because they have already been fighting Russia for eight years. What Western political leaders are finally starting to realize is that if they are to preserve...
A Putin le salió mal la jugada con Ucrania
Columna The New York Times, 28.01.2022 Yulia Latynina, periodista rusa de Eco de Moscú y de Novaya GazetaLa pregunta está en boca de todos. ¿El presidente Vladimir Putin irá a la guerra contra Ucrania? A juzgar por la maquinaria propagandística de Rusia, donde los magnates de los medios de comunicación están prediciendo una victoria “en 48...
En Ucrania no solo está en juego Ucrania
Blog POLIS: Política y Cultura, 28.01.2022 Fernando Mires, historiador, profesor (U. de Oldenburg) y bloguistaHemos escuchado que estamos en una situación de pre-guerra. Si es así, tenemos que convenir en que toda pre-guerra pertenece a una guerra, vale decir, a un periodo donde se establecen las condiciones de la guerra la que, como toda guerra, intenta...
A Whiff of Munich
Columna Project Syndicate, 25.01.2022 Harold James, profesor de historia y Relaciones Internacionales (Princeton University) y especialista en historia económica alemana
With the United States and its NATO allies seeking further negotiations to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine, many have been quick to invoke the 1938 appeasement of Hitler. But if the right lessons are taken from that episode,...
Indonesia’s Heavy-Handed Approach in West Papua Is Backfiring
Artículo World Politics Review, 04.01.2022 Nithin Coca, periodista independiente especializado en temas socioeconómicos y políticos del Sudeste AsiáticoIn late 2018, a violent attack in Indonesia brought sudden, global attention to West Papua, a region whose fight for independence was by then decades old. The attack targeted construction workers who were building a stretch of the controversial...
A Bold Second-Term Agenda Is Still Guterres’ Best Bet
Artículo World Politics Review, 03.01.2022 Richard Gowan, director para la ONU del International Crisis GroupAntonio Guterres starts his second five-year term as United Nations secretary-general this week. He spent much of his first term navigating very difficult relations with the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump. He would like to spend the coming years overhauling...
Biden Must Choose Between Appeasement and Deterrence in Ukraine
Artículo Foreign Policy, 09.12.2021 Nigel Gould-Davies, académico (Institute for Strategic Studies) y ex embajador británico en Bielorrusia (2007-09)
Russia’s threat on the Ukrainian border is not a bluff, but forceful U.S. financial sanctions could stop Putin from another land grabU.S. President Joe Biden’s virtual meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday did not resolve the military...
Conflicto mapuche: Chile nos muestra hacia donde vamos
Columna La Nación, 21.10.2021 Daniel Santa Cruz
El país vecino lo enfrenta como un conflicto con una organización armadaAdiferencia de otros pueblos originarios latinoamericanos que fueron colonizados hace 400 o 500 años, los mapuches, como otras etnias locales, vivieron de manera independiente hasta fines del siglo XIX e incluso hasta entrado el siglo XX. Esto les otorga...
Australia Draws A Line on China
Artículo Foreign Policy, 04.05.2021 Keith Johnson (redactor) y Jack Detsch (reportero de seguridad nacional)
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Australian Prime Minister Morrison speaks to the media in a press conference in Canberra.(Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images)[/caption] Australian defense officials...
Ukraine: Frozen conflict is hotting up
Blog Indian Punchline, 03.04.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indio[caption id="attachment_55950" align="alignleft" width="400"]
US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Porter sails in the Bosphorus on its way to the Black Sea (Reuters)[/caption]
The terrible beauty of “frozen conflicts” is that it takes hardly any effort to turn...