Artículo IDSA (Special Feature), 12.08.2015 Talmiz Ahmad, embajador (r) indioIn the third week of July 2015, the port, airport and presidential palace in Aden, the historic city at the mouth of the Red Sea, fell into the hands of forces representing the ousted Yemeni president, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, marking the first success in the counter-assault mounted...
One Year After the War: Gaza’s Lost Hopes
Opinión OpenDemocracy, 20.08.2015 Yasmeen Al-Khoudary, estudiante de magister en Cultural Heritage Studies (University College London)A letter from Gaza, describing the impossibility of getting back to 'normal' one year after the war. Real change is needed before it is too late.One year after we went through the third war on the Gaza Strip in six years, I find...
Does the Legality of Nuclear War Matter?
Artículo War on the Rocks, 19.08.2015 Butch Bracknell, ex marine, abogado internacional y miembro del Truman National Security Project's Defense Council (University of Virginia)The seven-decade anniversary of the end of the Second World War gives us good reasons to reflect on the use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict and what...
De la guerra fría a la guerra comercial
Editorial El Mercurio, 17.08.2015En medio de una baja generalizada del precio de los hidrocarburos, su principal exportación, Rusia está viviendo una escalada de sanciones económicas de la Unión Europea y Estados Unidos, por su actuación en la crisis de Ucrania, que lo obliga a evaluar sus próximas movidas políticas con cuidado. Es cierto que la respuesta de...
Japan and Chinese Decision-Making
Artículo The Diplomat, 12.08.2015 Charles Douglas Appleton, asistente de investigación de Rebuilt Japan Initiative FoundationUnderstanding China’s decision-making process could help Japan create a better strategy.
“Our best chance of avoiding antagonism with China is to open up the black box of Chinese domestic politics, look inside, and figure out what makes China act as it...
La yihad, definición y desarrollo histórico de los grupos yihadistas actuales
Artículo Revista de Historia, I (14.02.2015) y II (21.03.2015) David García
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La yihad es, sin riesgo a equivocarme, uno de los términos más presentes en nuestra vida cotidiana, tanto en los medios de comunicación como en cualquier conversación ordinaria. El Estado Islámico y los recientes atentados de París han acentuado el interés del mundo...Hiroshima, 70 Years Later: Did Truman Make the Right Call?
Artículo The National Interest, 06.08.2015 James Holmes, profesor de estrategia (Naval War College)Huddle up with Teddy Roosevelt, Clausewitz, and Wylie—and then you be the judge. Retrospectives on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki conjure up Theodore Roosevelt for me. That goes double when the anniversary is a multiple of ten—as it is today, the seventieth anniversary of...
America’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 Years Later
Ensayo OpenDemocracy, 06.08.2015 Tom Engelhardt (co-fundador del American Empire Project) y Christian Appy (profesor de historiaUniversity of Massachusetts)Will an American president ever offer a formal apology? Will our country ever regret the dropping of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,” those two bombs that burned hotter than the sun?So many decades later, it’s hard to remember the kind...
The Geopolitics of the Syrian Civil War
Análisis Geopolitical Weekly, 24.01.2014 Reva Bhalla, analista de seguridad con MBA (Georgetown University)International diplomats will gather Jan. 22 in the Swiss town of Montreux to hammer out a settlement designed to end Syria's three-year civil war. The conference, however, will be far removed from the reality on the Syrian battleground. Only days before the conference was scheduled...
Turkey in Danger
Artículo Voltaire Network, 30.07.2015 Thierry Meyssan, intelectual especializado en Relaciones Internacionales y fundador de Voltaire NetworkWhile the Western Press salutes the authorisation given by Turkey to the United States, allowing the US to use its military bases in order to fight Daesh, Thierry Meyssan looks at the nation’s internal tensions. In his view, maintaining Mr. Erdoğan in...