Columna Brookings, 17.06.2021 Steven K. Pifer, embajador(r) y académico norteamericano (Center on US & Europe Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative)U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a short summit yesterday in Switzerland that both sides described as substantive, efficient, and without rancor. Did the meeting advance Biden’s objective of building a stable and predictable U.S.-Russia...
Preview signals Biden’s foreign policy shifts
Blog Indian Punchline, 04.01.2021 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioIn his first media interview, the incoming US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has given a preview of Joe Biden administration’s foreign policy directions in regard of Russia, Iran and China. Major shifts can be expected in the policies toward both China and Iran while selective engagement...
Avoiding an Ominous Arms Race
Artículo Cairo Review of Global Affairs, N*35 (Otoño 2019) Nabil Fahmy, embajador (r), ex ministro de RREE y decano de la Escuela de Asuntos Globales (U.Americana - El Cairo)
Begin by holding negotiations for a WMD-free zone to which Israel, Iran, and all Arab states are party
In 2020, there will be two anniversaries which relate to the...Algunos comentarios sobre la cumbre de los BRICS
Columna Infobae, 20.11.2019 Roberto García Moritán, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE argentinoLa Cumbre de los BRICS en Brasil, que reunió a los cinco mandatarios que aglutinan un tercio de la economía mundial y un 40% de la población del planeta, ha mostrado un pragmatismo destacable. Ninguno de los participantes exageró en las banderas que...
Trump’s North Korean Appeasement
Artículo Project-Syndicate, 10.09.2019 Christopher R. Hill, ex Secretario de Estado Asistente para Este Asiático, embajador (r) y profesor norteamericano de Práctica Diplomática (U. de Denver)
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In the 15 months since US President Donald Trump held his first summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, there has been no progress toward denuclearization. But while both leaders have managed...
Armas nucleares, una cuestión de máxima urgencia
Columna Infobae, 17.08.2019 Roberto García Moritán, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE argentinoLas armas nucleares son la mayor amenaza a la supervivencia de generaciones futuras. Naciones Unidas ha advertido que el riesgo del uso de este armamento, intencionalmente o por error de cálculo, es el más alto en décadas. También que una guerra nuclear, incluso regional, tendría...
10 years after Obama’s nuclear-free vision, the US and Russia head in the opposite direction
Blog Brookings, 04.04.2019 Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r), académico (Brookings) y columnista norteamericano (Foreign Policy)April 5 marks the 10th anniversary of the speech in which Barack Obama laid out his vision for a world without nuclear weapons. It did not gain traction. Instead, the United States and Russia are developing new nuclear capabilities, while the nuclear arms...
A Rules-Based Global Order or Rule-less US Global ‘Order’?
Columna Strategic-Culture, 31.10.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático brotánico y director fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)“It has taken the US military/security complex 31 years to get rid of President Reagan’s last nuclear disarmament achievement – the INF Treaty, that President Reagan and Soviet President Gorbachev achieved in 1987”, writes Reagan’s former Assistant Treasury Secretary: “Behind the scenes, I had...
Want to improve relations with Russia? Here’s a START
Blog Brookings Institution, 06.09.2018 Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y especialista norteamericano en desarme (Brookings)President Trump has repeatedly made clear his desire to improve the troubled U.S.-Russia relationship. There is a straightforward proposal that he could make that would do so, one to which President Putin would agree and which would enhance U.S. security: Extend the 2010...
North Korea’s denuclearization was ‘wishful thinking’
Columna Kyodo News, 11.08.2018 Daniel R. Russel, embajador (r), ex secretario de estado asistente (Asia del Este) y vicepresidente para seguridad y diplomacia (Asia Society Policy Institute)
- What have we learned in the two months since U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un met in Singapore on June 12 and signed a short, vague...