Análisis en Profundidad
Artículo Fair Observer, 15.10.2015 John Feffer, autor y co-fundador de Foreing Policy in Focus (Institute for Policy Studies)Putin’s attempt at “shock and awe” in Syria has all the hallmarks of failed US interventions of the past. [caption id="attachment_15358" align="alignnone" width="490"]
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Richard Nixon lied. Surely this is... Reportaje Foreign Policy, 05.10.2015 Elizabeth Dickinson, periodista con estudios africanos de la U. de YalePerched in a seaside villa in eastern Tunisia, Osama Kubbar had anxiously waited for days for the final news about his guns. It was May 2011, five months into the Arab Spring, and Kubbar, a Libyan smuggler, was remotely tracking the slow movements...
Artículo OpenDemocracy, 05.10.2015 Mirela Zarichinova, periodista independiente y asesora legal en DDHH en Bulgarian Helsinki CommitteeBosnia and Herzegovina is a paralysed state. Can a way out be found by leaving behind the Dayton Peace Accord?The conference centre, now named “Richard Holbrooke”, seems deserted. We walk along its empty hallways but see no sign of human existence. The only...
Opinión Infobae, 28.09.2015 Federico GaonA partir de una nota del Sunday Express, la semana pasada los medios conjeturaron que alrededor de cuatro mil yihadistas habrían entrado a Europa, camuflados entre los refugiados sirios. Sacando ventaja del enorme flujo migratorio hacia el continente, a suerte de caballo de Troya, el Estado Islámico (ISIS) habría infiltrado a combatientes experimentados...
Análisis Security Weekly, 10.09.2015 Scott StewartLast week's Security Weekly discussed how the digital revolution has allowed terrorist operatives employing leaderless resistance methods to act as their own media. For groups such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State, this ability greatly enhances the effectiveness of propaganda. At the same time, however, the information disseminated benefits authorities by providing valuable...
Opinión El País, 18.09.2015 Arturo Pérez-Reverte, periodista y escritor españolEn el año 376 después de Cristo, en la frontera del Danubio se presentó una masa enorme de hombres, mujeres y niños. Eran refugiados godos que buscaban asilo, presionados por el avance de las hordas de Atila. Por diversas razones -entre otras, que Roma ya no era lo...
Artículo The Guardian, 17.09.2015 Chris McGreal, escritor seniorFrom Rwanda to Bosnia, Haiti to Congo, failures raise questions about future of United Nations blue helmetsRwanda, 1994. The nadir of many lows for UN peacekeeping. Hundreds of desperate Tutsis sought refuge on the first day of the genocide at a school where 90 UN troops were under the command of...
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 06.09.2015On Sept. 7, 1945, Japanese forces in the Ryukyu Islands officially surrendered to the Americans on the island of Okinawa. U.S. forces spent more than 80 days between April and June 1945 taking the island. The battle ended with 300,000 military and civilian casualties, the death of U.S. Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar...
Artículo War on the Rocks, 02.09.2015 Patrick Porter, director académico del Strategic and Security Institute (University of Exeter)How to counter the Islamic State is an especially difficult problem for Western policymakers, but the issue of compromise, and which devil to dance with, cannot be dodged forever.“My children,” President Franklin Roosevelt pronounced in his fatherly way...