Opinión El País, 12.09.2015 Rafael Argullol, escritorUno de los grandes músicos de comienzos del siglo XX murió tras una agonía de 20 años causada por lo que vio, escuchó y sintió —en plena represión contra los armenios— durante los 15 días que pasó en un campo de concentración En octubre de 1935 moría en el hospital psiquiátrico Villejuif...
The Role of the UN General Assembly
Análisis Council on Foreign Relations, 08.09.2015Introduction Since its inception seventy years ago, the United Nations General Assembly has been a forum for lofty declarations, sometimes audacious rhetoric, and rigorous debate over the world's most vexing issues, from poverty and development to peace and security. As the deliberative and representative organ of the United Nations, the assembly holds...
The Chinese Communist Party
Artículo CFR Backgrounders, 17.11.2014 Beina Xu y Eleanor Albert, escritora editoraIntroduction The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the founding and ruling political party of modern China, boasting more than eighty-six million members. In 2012, the CCP underwent a pivotal once-in-a-decade power transition that saw its fifth generation of leaders set the future agenda for the second-largest economy in...
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...
Nuremberg Trials Leave Behind Potent, Flawed Legacy
Artículo Deutsche Welle, 08.08.2015 Ben KnightThe Nuremberg trials of the Nazi leadership sparked a new era of international law and cooperation. They were founded on the London Charter, a visionary statute signed by the Allies on August 8, 1945.In the middle of a city that had officially been categorized as "90-percent dead" a few months before, 21...
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...
Le procès d’Hissène Habré s’ouvre sous tension à Dakar
Reportaje Libération, 20.07.2015 Margot Chevance, enviada especial a Dakar (Senegal)L'ancien dictateur tchadien accusé de crimes contre l'humanité, crimes de guerre et tortures refuse toujours de comparaître. «Courage monsieur le président, on est avec vous», «c’est le procès de la honte», scandent les militants pro-Habré, alors que l’ex-président tchadien accusé de crimes contre l’humanité, crimes de guerre et actes de torture...
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...
La Moral y la Ética en el uso de aviones no tripulados (Uav) como armas letales
Artículo ANEPE Julio Soto Silva, Profesor Jefe de PostgradosLa llegada de los “drones” o aviones no tripulados (UAV por sus siglas en inglés “unmanned aerial vehicle”) al teatro de guerra en los últimos años, que podría ampliarse con exoesqueletos o retinas artificiales, da cuenta que en el futuro cercano la tecnología dominará mucho más aún el campo...
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 –...