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The Obama Doctrine
Reportaje The Atlantic, abril 2016 Jeffrey Goldberg
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The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
The China-North Korea Relationship
Artículo CFR Backgrounder, 08.02.2016 Eleanor Albert y Beina Xu[caption id="attachment_22009" align="alignnone" width="921"]
Chinese Communist Party official Liu Yunshan with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang. Photo: Kyodo/Reuters[/caption]
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China is North Korea’s most important ally,...The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Artículo CFR Backgrounder, 17.02.2016 Jonathan Masters, segundo editor
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a Cold War cornerstone of transatlantic security, has significantly recast its role in the past twenty years. Founded in 1949 as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, NATO has evolved to confront threats ranging from piracy off the Horn of Africa to human trafficking in the...De Bosnia a Ucrania: la necesidad de fortalecer la presencia militar europea
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Europa no puede continuar dándose el lujo de no considerar, dentro de sus prioridades, la restauración de un sistema de defensa común, a raíz de los cambios estructurales de poder en el sistema mundial, en particular el Powerpolitics (geopolítica neo-imperialista) que muestra la Rusia de Putin en Ucrania.
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“The Iranian Threat” Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?
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