Artículo Ambassadors Review, (Fall 2017) Steven K. Pifer, ex embajador norteamericano en Ucrania y académico (Brookings Institution)Following the Soviet Union’s collapse, Ukraine and Russia maintained relations that at times were testy, but their differences largely appeared manageable. That changed in 2014, when the Kremlin used military force to seize Crimea and then supported armed separatism in the...
The Costs of U.S. Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital
Carta OpinionGlobal, 08.12.2017 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y cónsul honorario de Chile en Beirut
Although expected and smoothly prepared through the media,...
The Death of the INF Treaty Could Signal a U.S.-Russia Missile Race
Columna The National Interest, 06.12.2017 Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano del Brookings Arms Control and Nonproliferation InitiativeThe Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty marks its thirtieth anniversary on December 8. That could be one of its last. Russia has violated the treaty by deploying a prohibited ground-launched cruise missile. Congress has set the Department of Defense...
Trump logra marcar
Blog republica.com, 05.12.2017 Inocencio F. Arias, embajador (r) y columnista españolNarcisista y bravucón, el Presidente de los Estados Unidos alardeaba hace días de haber conseguido más logros legislativos en un año que sus predecesores. Estaba fabulando, su cosecha en estos once meses en el poder ha sido bastante escasa. Sin embargo, en las postrimerías del 2017 parece que...
Trump’s Missing North Korea Strategy
Columna Project-Syndicate, 29.11.2017 Christopher R. Hill, ex secretario de estado asistente, embajador (r) y decano del Korbel School of International Studies (U. de Denver)By arbitrarily re-designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, US President Donald Trump has demonstrated yet again that he has no policy or strategy for resolving the current nuclear crisis. When former...
Nuevos tiempos, nuevos liderazgos
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De izquierda a derecha, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Enrique Peña Nieto, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Jordi Pujol y Carles Puigdemont.[/caption]
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¿Qué hace diferente a George Bush de Donald Trump, a Jordi Pujol de Carles Puigdemont, a...
Queen Ivanka’s uncomfortable throne
Perfil The Washington Post, 03.11.2017 David Von Drehle[caption id="attachment_24794" align="alignright" width="399"]
Ivanka Trump attends the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/AP)[/caption]
Not since Philippe Petit stepped onto a wire surreptitiously rigged between the towers of the late, lamented World Trade Center in 1974 has there been a tightrope walk as perilous... Trump’s Saudi Scheme Unravels
Columna Consortiumnews.com, 17.11.2017 Alastair Crooke, diplomático destacado en la inteligencia británica y diplomacia UE
- President Trump and his son-in-law bet that the young Saudi crown prince could execute a plan to reshape the Mideast, but the scheme quickly unraveled revealing a dangerous amateur hour
China en la mesa grande
Columna El Comercio (Ecuador), 14.11.2017 Francisco Carrión Mena, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE ecuatorianoNo es ningún descubrimiento: el rol de China en el mundo es cada vez más relevante en materia económica, comercial y financiera, en geopolítica mundial y en influencia estratégica global. Dos acontecimientos recientes corroboran esta afirmación. El primero, a fines de octubre, se...
A last attempt of the US to hold on in the Middle East: a war with IRAN?
Carta OpinionGlobal, 10.11.2017 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés-cónsul de Chile en BeirutFor the last ten days, successive events have shaken the already chaotic political life of the Middle East amid the increase of violent verbal attacks of high Saudi officials towards Iran, backed by an outspoken US president Trump. The still mysterious resignation of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saaduddine...