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...
India, Russia and the Post-American Century
Artículo Strategic-Culture.org, 04.09.2018 Melkulangara Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático, analista y colaborador de diarios indiosIndia’s impending purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system has come to be the leitmotif of the “2+2” dialogue of the foreign and defence ministers of India and the United States due to take place in New Delhi on September 6. However, the issue here...
Is a ‘Suez’ Event Being Prepared for Syria?
Artículo Strategic-Culture.org, 01.09.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y director-fundador de Conflcts Forum (Beirut)So, the metamorphosis is done. President Trump has finally, fully, shed his 2016 Campaign ‘skin’ of loosely imagining a grand foreign policy bargain that could be the foundation for “WORLD PEACE, nothing less!” as Trump tweeted when imposing sanctions on Iran. We wrote, on 3...
Walking a Fine Line on Russian Sanctions
Columna The RAND Blog, 22.08.2018 William H. Courtney, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano de la RANDThe United States and its allies are increasingly frustrated over malign activities by Russia. Moscow wages war in Ukraine, abets brutality in Syria, interferes in elections, and poisons opponents. In response, Washington has imposed sanctions and closed Russian consulates in San Francisco and...