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,...
ISIS and the Shia Revival in Iraq
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...
Un oasis para los hijos de la guerra
Reportaje El País, 25.05.2015 Ana PalaciosLos niños soldado de Uganda hoy construyen su presente intentando superar el trauma. Hope North es un un refugio físico y emocional para esos jóvenes Hace casi 10 años que en Uganda no hay guerra, pero sí que ha quedado una sombra alargada de ese pasado sangriento: los niños soldado. Hoy adultos, muchos...
Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-combatant
Artículo Georgia Institute of Technology Ronald ArkinIt seems a safe assumption, unfortunately, that humanity will persist in conducting warfare, as evidenced over all recorded history. New technology has historically made killing more efficient, for example with the invention of the longbow, artillery, armored vehicles, aircraft carriers, or nuclear weapons. Many view that each of these new technologies...
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: Future Challenges
Artículo Center for Security Studies (CSS): CSS Analyses on Security Policy - No 164, Noviembre 2014 Matthias Bieri y Marcel DickowThe challenge that armed drones pose for international law and arms control has only prevailed for a few years. However, experts are al- ready dealing with questions that will arise in the course of technical advances –...
World War II and the Origins of American Unease
Análisis Geopolitical Weekly, 12.05.2015 George Friedman, fundador y presidente de Stratfor Global IntelligenceWe are at the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. That victory did not usher in an era of universal peace. Rather, it introduced a new constellation of powers and a complex balance among them. Europe's great powers and empires...
Explaining Pakistan’s Self-Defeating Afghanistan Policy
Ensayo Lawfare, 26.04.2015 Khalid Homayun Nadiri, candidato al doctorado (U. Johns Hopkins)The relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan has long been ugly. Pakistan’s efforts to control and influence Afghanistan have played a major role in advancing radical groups like the Taliban and fomenting unrest in Pakistan itself. The last few months have seen signs of improvement, but Pakistan’s...
Yemen in Crisis
Artículo CFR Backgrounders, 20.04.2015 Zachary Laub, analista asociado del Council of Foreign RelationsIntroduction Yemen faces its biggest crisis in decades with the overthrow of its government by the Houthis, a Zaydi Shia movement backed by Iran. As the Houthis captured the capital of Sana’a and advanced south toward the Gulf of Aden in March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition...
Would New Borders Mean Less Conflicts in the Middle East?
Artículo The Wall Street Journal, 11.04.2015 Yaroslav Trofimov, periodista ucranianoThe region is living with the combustible legacy of states artificially carved from the remains of the Ottoman Empire. Shortly after the end of World War I, the French and British prime ministers took a break from the hard business of redrawing the map of Europe to...
La belicosidad de Vladimir Vladimirovich
Juan Salazar Sparks[1]
Para muchos está más que claro que Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin es el nuevo zar de Rusia. En lo que algunos siguen intrigados es saber quién es el personaje, qué pretende con su agresiva política externa expansionista y hasta dónde está dispuesto a llegar.
Putin es un hombre solo y raro, desconfiado y...
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