Columna El Nacional, 07.09.2018 Oscar Hernández Bernalette, embajador (r), profesor (UCV) y columnista venezolanoAún recuerdo la última vez que vi a Sebastián Alegrett, amigo y maestro en las lides de la diplomacia. Fue en un homenaje que le hicieron los cancilleres andinos en la Secretaría de la CAN en Lima. Cargaba a cuestas sus últimos días. Las...
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...
Turkey’s damage-control campaign in Idlib
Blog Middle East Institute, 04.09.2018 Robert S. Ford, embajador (r) e investigador norteamericano (MEI)The presidents of Russia, Iran, and Turkey will meet on Friday, Sept. 7, in Tehran to discuss agreed-upon paths forward in the Syrian war. The Turkish government hopes to forestall a massive Syrian government assault on the crowded opposition-held province of Idlib. Ankara is...
India, Russia and the Post-American Century
Artículo Strategic-Culture.org, 04.09.2018 Melkulangara Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático, analista y colaborador de diarios indiosIndia’s impending purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system has come to be the leitmotif of the “2+2” dialogue of the foreign and defence ministers of India and the United States due to take place in New Delhi on September 6. However, the issue here...
Is a ‘Suez’ Event Being Prepared for Syria?
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
Former UN secretary-general comforts a crying child among a group of survivors of the Liquica massacre in East Timor in 1999. (Ed Wray/AP)[/caption]
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...