Columna El Líbero, 20.03.2016 Enrique Subercaseaux, ex diplomático y gestor cultural
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La elección de Macri ha sido un punto de inflexión en la historia reciente del vecino país.
Incertidumbre en Brasil
Blog La Tercera, 17.03.2016 Samuel Fernández Illanes, abogado (PUC), embajador del Servicio Exterior (r), profesor de D. Internacional (U. Central) y académico de la Academia DiplomáticaTodo parece complicarse en Brasil y de manera seria. El campo político, la productividad económica, la gestión social, el apoyo ciudadano, y de manera especial, la confiabilidad, entre muchos otros, se han...
Maduro, con los días contados
Columna Página Siete, 15.03.2016 Verónica Ormachea Gutiérrez, escritora y periodista bolivianaCuando un presidente inepto y corrupto ha destruido su país y se aferra al poder, al pueblo no le queda más que recurrir a la Constitución para cambiar al gobierno. Venezuela, hace 17 años, vive una autocracia arbitraria y ahora está al borde del colapso. La oposición convocará a...
China’s Coming Ideological Wars
Artículo Foreign Policy, 01.03.2016 Taisu Zhang
In the reform era, economic growth reigned supreme. But now, a revival of competing beliefs has polarized Chinese society.
For most Chinese, the 1990s were a period of intense material pragmatism. Economic development was the paramount social and political concern, while the... Un referéndum por penales
Artículo La Monde Diplomatique, N*200 (febrero 2016) Pablo Estefanoni, historiador, columnista y escritor argentino
El domingo, el pueblo boliviano votó el referéndum para reformar la Constitución del país y permitir la re reelección del presidente Evo Morales en 2019.
Evo Morales se metió solo en lo que, desde el comienzo, se veía como la elección más difícil...The Devil We Know in Minsk
Artículo Foreign Policy, 09.02.2016 Brian Klaas, profesor y académico de la London School of Economics
- Europe is about to let its last dictator in from the cold. Here's why it should demand change instead.
Framing China’s Future (III): Imagining a Democratic China
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 02.12.2015Summary China's Communist Party is locked in a struggle for political legitimacy. For most of the past three decades, economic growth has buoyed the party and underwritten its promises of full employment and ever-improving material conditions for the majority of Chinese. But that growth is slowing. As the country's export- and investment-led growth model...
Framing China’s Future (IV): The High Stakes of Having a Job in China
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 08.01.2016Summary Understanding employment is fundamental to understanding how contemporary China works. The need to maintain near-universal employment — or at least the appearance of it — forms the bedrock of Chinese political economy. It structures the financial system, long-term industrial policy, the incentive structure for bureaucrats and everything in between. Strikingly, post-Mao Chinese policy...
Moldova: The Outsize Significance of a Small Country
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People walk past a monument celebrating the Soviet victory over the German army in Tiraspol, Moldova, in April 2014.... Why Europe’s Great Experiment Is Failing
Análisis Global Affairs, 27.01.2016 Ian MorrisThe slow-motion crisis of the European Union finally seems to be coming to a head. "Europe could lose its historical footing and the project could die quickly," French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned in a speech at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "Things could fall apart within months," which,...