Análisis Geopolitical Weekly, 20.10.2015 Rodger Baker, MBA en historia militar de la U. de NorwichWords matter in seeking to explain the actions of states and individuals and to divine the response that would best protect the national (or business or personal) interest. Complexities abound, and assertions based on minimal facts often must be made. Oversimplification is frequently a...
Is Putin Really as Foolish as We Are?
Artículo Fair Observer, 15.10.2015 John Feffer, autor y co-fundador de Foreing Policy in Focus (Institute for Policy Studies)Putin’s attempt at “shock and awe” in Syria has all the hallmarks of failed US interventions of the past. [caption id="attachment_15358" align="alignnone" width="490"]
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Richard Nixon lied. Surely this is... Who is a Better Strategist: Obama or Putin?
Artículo Foreign Policy, 09.10.2015 Stephen M. Walt, profesor de RRII en la U. de HarvardPitting a former KGB agent against a former community organizer and seeing what happens in SyriaThat’s not quite the right question, of course, because both leaders depend to some degree on intelligence reports and advice from trusted advisors and not just their own...
A Pivotal U.S.-Korea Summit?
Análisis Council on Foreign Relations, 13.10.2015 Scott Snyder, miembro senior de Koreas Studies y director del programa US-Korea PolicyRestricting a Nuclear North Korea North Korea's persistent, belligerent rhetoric and unchecked efforts to develop nuclear and missile capabilities will top the Obama-Park summit's agenda. The immediate challenge is how to disrupt a pattern of North Korean long-range missile and...
Hitler tiene futuro
Opinión El País, 10.10.2015 Lluís BassetsLa llegada de centenares de miles de refugiados a Europa permite certificar la certeza de las teorías de Snyder, autor de 'Tierra negra. El Holocausto como historia y advertencia'Muchos son los historiadores que han indagado sobre el exterminio de los judíos de Europa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero ninguno hasta ahora...
Forecasting Japan (II): China Rises
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 29.09.2015Summary Since the end of the Cold War, the Pacific Rim has seen China rise and Japan stagnate. However, Japan is approaching an epochal shift that will enable it to challenge the current order. This analysis is the second in a four-part a series that forecasts the nature of that shift and the...
No te metas con Texas
Opinión El País, 27.09.2015 Javier Cercas, escritor, profesor de literatura y columnista españolLos norteamericanos no pueden resignarse al absurdo de que un hombre solo cambiara la historia de su paísLos países con poca historia la cuidan mucho; los países con mucha historia la cuidan poco. No paré de repetirme esta frase, que no sé quién acuñó, durante...
Kissingerian Realism
Reseña de libro [Henry A. Kissiner en World Order. Penguin Press 2014] American Review, (junio 2015) Jacob HeilbrunnThe 91-year-old former secretary of state delivers an impressive coda to a career that has had more than its share of distinctionFew figures have played a more prominent role in modern American foreign policy than Henry Kissinger. As national security...
India en el siglo de Asia
Artículo Economía Exterior, Nº 73 (Verano 2015) Fernando DelageEl gobierno de Modi muestra una gran determinación con respecto a sus principales objetivos exteriores: maximizar los intercambios comerciales, financieros y tecnológicos con los Estados de su periferia; consolidar la nueva asociación con EE UU y reequilibrar la relación con ChinaLa realización del siglo de Asia –señaló el primer...
Kissinger the Freedom Fighter
Opinión The Wall Street Journal, 18.09.2015 Niall Ferguson, historiador británico y profesor de HarvardHenry Kissinger is often condemned as a heartless practitioner of realpolitik. But early in his career, he was strikingly idealisticSurely no statesman in modern times, and certainly no American secretary of state, has been as revered and then as reviled as Henry Kissinger. At the height...