Artículo Strategic-Culture.org, 01.09.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y director-fundador de Conflcts Forum (Beirut)So, the metamorphosis is done. President Trump has finally, fully, shed his 2016 Campaign ‘skin’ of loosely imagining a grand foreign policy bargain that could be the foundation for “WORLD PEACE, nothing less!” as Trump tweeted when imposing sanctions on Iran. We wrote, on 3...
Walking a Fine Line on Russian Sanctions
Columna The RAND Blog, 22.08.2018 William H. Courtney, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano de la RANDThe United States and its allies are increasingly frustrated over malign activities by Russia. Moscow wages war in Ukraine, abets brutality in Syria, interferes in elections, and poisons opponents. In response, Washington has imposed sanctions and closed Russian consulates in San Francisco and...
Kofi Annan: tributes pour in for ‘an outstanding human being’
Reportaje The Observer, 18.08.2018 Emma Graham-Harrison
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World leaders honour the former UN secretary-general, who has died aged 80, as a rare breed of diplomat
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Tributes... Europe’s Donald Can Fight Dirty, Too
Artículo Foreign Policy, 20.08.2018 Remi Adekoya, periodista polaco-nigeriano, analista político y ex editor del Warsaw Business Journal
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Donald Tusk is the mild-mannered president of a quiet EU institution—and the West’s loudest voice against populism
At a rally in Montana this July, U.S. President Donald Trump went on what’s become a... Guerra comercial: Juego de tácticas y fintas
Columna El Líbero, 27.08.2018 Enrique Subercaseaux, ex diplomático y gestor culturalSiempre que se suscita un gran tema con la República Popular China, las interpretaciones son múltiples. Generalmente en el análisis se da la búsqueda de explicaciones alambicadas, en vez de mirar la simple realidad. Cuando a la ecuación se añade Estados Unidos, se trata ya de una...
The Death of the Gentle Peacemaker
Obituary Foreign Policy, 20,08,2018 James Traub, editor y académico del Center on International Cooperation
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Kofi Annan was the epitome of international diplomacy—which is why he was both an inspiration and a disappointment
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan listens to a translation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's speech at... Kofi Annan, the Peacemaker Who Knew How to Play Big-Power Politics
Artículo World Politics Review, 20.08.2018 Richard Gowan, académico (United Nations University’s Centre for Policy Research-European Council on Foreign Relations) y profesor (U. de Columbia)[caption id="attachment_32536" align="alignright" width="405"]
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Kofi Annan’s career was... Kofi Annan, Who Redefined the U.N., Dies at 80
Obituary The New York Times, 18.08.2018 Alan Cowell[caption id="attachment_32510" align="alignright" width="450"]
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Kofi Annan, the soft-spoken and patrician diplomat from Ghana who became the seventh secretary general of the United Nations, projecting himself and his organization as the world’s conscience and moral arbiter despite bloody debacles that stained his record... Brzezinski and Carter: America’s Grand Strategists
Reseña de libros The National Interest, 23.08.2018 Simon Serfaty, profesor (Old Dominion University) a cargo de la cátedra Seguridad Global y Geoestrategia (CSIS)
“Few administrations,” writes Vaïsse, from Brzezinski’s perspective but in the context of the administration he served, “have known so many tangible successes … in only four years”
- Justin Vaïsse, Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard...
Las dos versiones de Kofi Annan
Blog republica.com, 21.08.2018 Inocencio Arias, embajador (r) y columnista españolAlguien ha comentado que un estadista es un politico del montón que lleva unos años muerto. Con Kofi Annan no ha sido preciso esperar ese tiempo. El incienso y las elegías, a menudo merecidas, han brotado desde el dia siguiente de su fallecimiento ocurrido el pasado fin de...