Artículo Strategic-Culture, 08.10.2018 Melkulangara Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático indio y colaborador de varios diarios de su paísThe disappearance of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in mysterious circumstances while on a visit to his country’s consulate in Istanbul last Tuesday still remains unexplained. The plot is thickening by the day. The latest reports suggest that he may not even...
Trump’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad National Security Team
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 06.10.2018 James George Jatras, ex diplomático norteamericano y asesor internacional (liderazgo republicano-Senado)Gareth Porter paints a dismal picture. Time and again, President Donald Trump indicates he wants to do the right thing: get out Afghanistan, get out of Syria, get out of South Korea. Every time, his national security team – the people he appointed – sends...
If Trump Wants the Ultimate Deal, He Must Not Repeat These Mistakes
Artículo Foreign Policy, 02.10.2018 Dennis B. Ross (ex embajador-académico Washington Institute) y David Makovsky (Washington Institute)
Israeli-Palestinian peace is elusive because all of the parties, including the United States, have made a series of damaging but preventable errors
Twenty-five years ago, the Oslo peace process was born. The process has endured, but it has failed to produce peace between Israelis and...Harry, el sucio: Las desconocidas memorias de un hombre clave en el plebiscito
Reportaje La Tercera, 30.09.2018 Carla Pía Ruiz PereiraHarry G. Barnes fue uno de los misteriosos protagonistas del 5 de octubre de 1988. El embajador fue la cara de la estrategia política y diplomática de Estados Unidos en Chile cuando el gobierno de Ronald Reagan decidió dejar de apoyar a Pinochet. Por su postura y defensa de los...
John McCain, War Hero, Senator, Presidential Contender, Dies at 81
Obituary The New York Times, 25.08.2018 Robert D. McFaddenJohn S. McCain, the proud naval aviator who climbed from depths of despair as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to pinnacles of power as a Republican congressman and senator from Arizona and a two-time contender for the presidency, died on Saturday at his home in Arizona. He was...
The Bombings the World Forgot
Reseña de libro Foreign Policy, Amazon y otros (21.09.2018)
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Ambassador Prudence Bushnell survived the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. Now she tells her story
Prudence Bushnell"Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience: My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings"
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For US, Meddling in Orthodox Church Affairs Is Just Another Tool Against Russia
Columna Strategic-Culture, 29.09.2018 James G. Jatras, ex diplomático norteamericano y asesor internacional del liderazgo republicano en el Senado
Probably not many people who follow international affairs think the intricacies of Orthodox Church governance are particularly important
Well, the US Department of State does. Barely a week ago, the State Department, via the statement of a senior official, Ambassador Michael Kozak, publicly...Reclaiming American Internationalism
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,...