Análisis en Profundidad
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Análisis CFR Backgrounders, 16.06.2015Introduction The militant Islamist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was formed in January 2009 through a union of the Saudi and Yemeni branches of al-Qaeda. Jihadist antecedents in the region date to the early 1990s, when thousands of mujahadeen returned to Yemen after fighting the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan. Analysts rate the Yemen-based...
Opinión El País, 27.06.2015 Loretta Napoleoni, economista italianaEl Estado Islámico posee unas características que ningún otro grupo armado yihadista ha tenido jamás: pragmatismo y modernidad. En 12 meses, tras extender sus fronteras y consolidar su territorio, es el referente indiscutible de esa ideología Era de esperar que, con motivo del primer aniversario de la creación del Califato, el...
Reportaje El Confidencial, 28.06.2015 Daniel Iriarte, corresponsal en EstambulEl Estado Islámico cumple un año mañana, tiempo suficiente para entender cuáles son sus objetivos, cuáles sus puntos débiles y para preparar una estrategia de choque Fanáticos. Genios de la propaganda. Terroristas peligrosos. Administradores eficientes. Asesinos crueles. Insurgentes de probada capacidad militar. El Estado Islámico es un fenómeno con tantas dimensiones que...
Entrevista a funcionarios y académicos estadounidenses Politico Magazine, julio/agosto 2015 Michael CrowleyDid George W. Bush create the Islamic State? Did Barack Obama? We asked the insiders to tell us who’s to blame. For a brief, happy—and misguided—moment, most Americans stopped thinking about Iraq. After withdrawing the last U.S. troops in 2011, President Barack Obama declared the country “sovereign,...
Artículo Política Exterior, N*165 (mayo-junio 2015) Francisco de Borja Las HerasLa guerra de las reformas es a menudo el conflicto olvidado en Ucrania. El reto es transformarse sin descomponerse en pleno conflicto bélico con Rusia y los grupos armados en el Este. Para Ucrania y su gobierno hoy “es casi más fácil tratar la guerra que las reformas”,...
Ensayo World Affairs, junio 2015 Stephen Blank, miembro de American Foreign Policy CouncilIn September 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted that he could, at will, occupy any Eastern European capital in two days. This apparently spontaneous utterance reveals, probably more than Russia’s new official defense doctrine, Moscow’s true assessment of NATO’s capabilities, cohesion, and will to resist....
Análisis Geopolitical Weekly, 09.06.2015 George Friedman, fundador y presidente Stratfor Global IntelligenceThe term "Middle East" has become enormously elastic. The name originated with the British Foreign Office in the 19th century. The British divided the region into the Near East, the area closest to the United Kingdom and most of North Africa; the Far East, which was...
Reportaje The New York Times,06.06.2015 Mark Mazzetti, Nicholas Kulish, Christopher Drew, Serge F. Kovaleski, Sean D. Naylor y John IsmayThe unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden has been converted into a global manhunting machine with limited outside oversight. They have plotted deadly missions from secret bases in the badlands of Somalia. In Afghanistan,...
Artículo The New York Review of Books, 04.06.2015 Nicolas Pelham“We’re ridding the world of polytheism, and spreading monotheism across the planet,” an ISIS preacher recently said in a video recording. Behind him one could see the ISIS faithful using sledgehammers, bulldozers, and explosives to destroy the eighth-century-BC citadel of the Assyrian king Sargon II at Khorsabad, ten...