Blog republica.com, 05.12.2017 Inocencio F. Arias, embajador (r) y columnista españolNarcisista y bravucón, el Presidente de los Estados Unidos alardeaba hace días de haber conseguido más logros legislativos en un año que sus predecesores. Estaba fabulando, su cosecha en estos once meses en el poder ha sido bastante escasa. Sin embargo, en las postrimerías del 2017 parece que...
Trump’s Missing North Korea Strategy
Columna Project-Syndicate, 29.11.2017 Christopher R. Hill, ex secretario de estado asistente, embajador (r) y decano del Korbel School of International Studies (U. de Denver)By arbitrarily re-designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, US President Donald Trump has demonstrated yet again that he has no policy or strategy for resolving the current nuclear crisis. When former...
Nuevos tiempos, nuevos liderazgos
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¿Qué hace diferente a George Bush de Donald Trump, a Jordi Pujol de Carles Puigdemont, a...
Queen Ivanka’s uncomfortable throne
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Ivanka Trump attends the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/AP)[/caption]
Not since Philippe Petit stepped onto a wire surreptitiously rigged between the towers of the late, lamented World Trade Center in 1974 has there been a tightrope walk as perilous... Trump’s Saudi Scheme Unravels
Columna Consortiumnews.com, 17.11.2017 Alastair Crooke, diplomático destacado en la inteligencia británica y diplomacia UE
- President Trump and his son-in-law bet that the young Saudi crown prince could execute a plan to reshape the Mideast, but the scheme quickly unraveled revealing a dangerous amateur hour
China en la mesa grande
Columna El Comercio (Ecuador), 14.11.2017 Francisco Carrión Mena, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE ecuatorianoNo es ningún descubrimiento: el rol de China en el mundo es cada vez más relevante en materia económica, comercial y financiera, en geopolítica mundial y en influencia estratégica global. Dos acontecimientos recientes corroboran esta afirmación. El primero, a fines de octubre, se...
A last attempt of the US to hold on in the Middle East: a war with IRAN?
Carta OpinionGlobal, 10.11.2017 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés-cónsul de Chile en BeirutFor the last ten days, successive events have shaken the already chaotic political life of the Middle East amid the increase of violent verbal attacks of high Saudi officials towards Iran, backed by an outspoken US president Trump. The still mysterious resignation of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saaduddine...
Trump’s Scary Nuclear Doctrine
Columna Consortiumnews, 12.10.2017 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático destacado en la inteligencia británica y diplomacia de la UE, y fundador del Conflicts ForumThere are acres of print analyzing “will he, or won’t he” in respect to President Trump taking military action in North Korea. And equally, volumes on what Trump may intend to do in respect of Iran: Is...
Insightful Analysis of Syria`s Prospects
Carta OpinionGlobal, 03.11.2017 Riad Fouad Saade, cónsul honrario de Chile en Beirut y empresario libanésIn an ever-changing Middle East, destroyed by the chaotic policy of the USA and its Israeli local partner (or mastermind?) and while indigenous populations are suffering hell for the past 50 years, culminating lately with the wiping out of cities in Iraq, Syria...
An Agenda for US-Iran Negotiations
Columna Project-Syndicate, 31, 10.2017 Christopher R. Hill, ex secretario de estado asistente, embajador (r) y decano del Korbel School of International Studies (U. de Denver)US President Donald Trump has decided not to certify that Iran is in compliance with the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement constraining Iran’s nuclear-weapons program. In effect,...