Columna Project-Syndicate, 28.09.2018 Christopher R. Hill, embajador (r), ex Secretario de Estado Adjunto para Extremo Oriente y profesor de Práctica Diplomática (U. de Denver)US President Donald Trump has managed to attract support for his "America First" isolationism not by dint of his own arguments, but because the US foreign-policy establishment abandoned its own values. After decades of thoughtless...
Diplomacia infantil
Columna El Nacional, 28.09.2018 Oscar Hernández Bernalette, embajador (r), profesor (UCV) y columnista venezolanoDías ajetreados en la reunión anual de la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas. Mucho movimiento, muchas noticias, mucha zozobra. Mientras tanto, el mundo sigue su curso, la guerra en Siria, la emigración de miles de venezolanos y africanos, la pobreza galopante en el mundo,...
Syria: Bolton Throws Down the Gauntlet
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 25.09.2018 Melkulangara Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioA terrible beauty was born last night with the sequence of dramatic events taking a curious turn, following the shooting down of the Russian plane on September 17 near the coastline of Latakia, Syria, killing fifteen personnel on board the aircraft. After a meticulous investigation by the Russian side,...
Mientras termina el ‘gran nuevo juego’ ¿cuál será la nueva configuración del Oriente Medio?
Carta OpinionGlobal, 26.09.2018 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y cónsul honorario de Chile en BeirutDurante 23 años, desde 1994, he venido conversando con mis amigos y colegas chilenos acerca de la situación en el Medio Oriente como tal. De hecho, a principios del siglo XX, el Medio Oriente, era una entidad bien definida dentro del sistema que los...
Can Russia Survive Her ‘Partnerships’? Has Putin Made A Strategic Miscalculation?
Blog Institute for Political Economy, 19.09.2018 Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, ex Secretario Asistente del Tesoro de Política EconómicaIn an act of intentional deception, Israel used a Russian airplane to cloak an Israeli attack on a Syrian ground position, with the consequence that Syrian air defense missiles downed the Russian airplane with the lost of 15 Russian military lives. In...
US-Indian Relations: Trump Gets a Unique Partner for America First
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 18.09.2018 Melkulangara Bhadrkumar, ex diplomático indio y colaborador de varios diarios de su paísThe inaugural meeting of the foreign and defence ministers of India and the United States in a new “2+2” format on September 6 in New Delhi assumed added significance as an attempt by the Trump administration to translate its Indo-Pacific vision outlined...
Two Major Middle East Projects Are Afoot & Gaining Mass; They May Collide Before Long
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 18.09.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y fundador del Conflicts Forum de BeirutOut from the ashes of the two mega projects of this expiring decade – i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) attempted Mideast take-over, and, contrarily, the Gulf project to rupture the MB - and to reconstitute hereditary, tribal absolutism (the ‘Arab System’) - two...
La importancia del entorno internacional
Columna El Montonero, 07.09.2018 J. Eduardo Ponce Vivanco, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE peruano
Mientras la nación se concentra en su delicada coyuntura interna, el entorno regional y mundial (del que la economía y desarrollo del Perú dependen en gran medida) presenta un conjunto de cambios de la mayor significación. El más gravitante...
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I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
Columna New York Times, 05.09.2018 Anónimo (alto funcionario de la Administración Trump)
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations
President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader. It’s not just that the special counsel looms large....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...