Columna Indian Punchline, 07.01.2020 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioA new dynamics is forming in the week since the assassination of the charismatic Iranian general Hassan Soleimani on January 2. This is apparent at three levels. The staggering scale of the outpouring of public feelings within Iran during Soleimani’s funeral makes it one hundred percent certain that with...
Turquía se complica la vida
Columna El Confidencial, 01.01.20120 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España
Erdogan debe pensar que su turno ha llegado y ha pasado a la ofensiva de una forma un tanto desordenada, pero que no deja dudas sobre su voluntad de tener un papel importante
El haber sido un imperio pero ya no serlo le complica a uno la vida porque...The fine print of US-China trade deal
Columna Indian Punchline, 15.12.2019 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indio
The US-China trade deal is harbinger of even harder talks, but apparent pragmatism on both sides is a positive sign
The agreement on the terms of the first phase of a trade deal between the US and China broadly envisages that Washington would reduce some tariffs on Chinese goods while Beijing would...Avoiding an Ominous Arms Race
Artículo Cairo Review of Global Affairs, N*35 (Otoño 2019) Nabil Fahmy, embajador (r), ex ministro de RREE y decano de la Escuela de Asuntos Globales (U.Americana - El Cairo)
Begin by holding negotiations for a WMD-free zone to which Israel, Iran, and all Arab states are party
In 2020, there will be two anniversaries which relate to the...Amargo aniversario
Columna La Opinión de Málaga, 10.12.2019 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España y columnista
La OTAN cumple también hoy un papel importante como foro de diálogo trasatlántico cuando crecen los problemas comerciales
Mientras la Cumbre del Clima de Madrid nos alerta de la implacable subida de las temperaturas globales, la OTAN ha celebrado su 70 aniversario en...Why care about Ukraine and the Budapest Memorandum
Blog Brookings, 05.12.2019 Steven K. Pifer, economista (Stanford), embajador (r) y académico norteamericano (Brookings)Since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, the United States has provided Ukraine with $3 billion in reform and military assistance and $3 billion in loan guarantees. U.S. troops in western Ukraine train their Ukrainian colleagues. Washington, in concert with the European Union, has...
Is NATO Brain Dead?
Blog RAND Corporation, 03.12.2019 James Dobbins, embajador (r), ex representante especial para Afghanistan y Pakistan y académico norteamericano (RAND Corporation)French President Emmanuel Macron recently declared that “we are experiencing the brain death of NATO.” He made this remark in support of longstanding French policy favoring a more united Europe less dependent for its security on American leadership and protection. Macron's...
Delincuentes, no; gorrones, ciertamente
Blog Republica, 03.12.2019 Inocencio Arias, embajador (r) y columnista españolTrump ha llegado a Europa con su zafiedad y su verdad habituales. Con pocos pelos en la lengua. Ha arremetido contra Macron por decir que la OTAN estaba casi en coma. Ha calificado las declaraciones del francés como irrespetuosas y muy, muy groseras por mal intencionadas. No...
Russia-Ukraine relations take leap of faith
Columna Indian Punchline, 16.11.2019 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe relationship of the famous Ukrainian oligarch and billionaire Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky lends itself to various interpretations. Both Kolomoyskyi and Zelensky (rather, his spokesperson Iuliia Mendel) are in denial mode about their past business association but the impression lingers that the oligarch...
Cornering and Strangulating Iran Has Backfired on Israel
Columna Strategic-Culture, 11.11.2019 Alastaire Crooke, ex diplomático británico y cofundador del Conflicts Forum de BeirutWhat happens if the two premises on which Israel and America’s grand Iran strategy is founded are proven false? ‘What if’ maximum pressure fails either to implode the Iranian state politically, nor brings Iran to its knees, begging for a new ‘hairshirt’ nuclear...