Archivos de Categoría: Estado Fallido

End Times for the Caliphate?

Artículo
London Review of Books, Vol.38 (5) 2016
Patrick Cockburn, periodista y escritor
The war in Syria and Iraq has produced two new de facto states in the last five years and enabled a third quasi-state greatly to expand its territory and power. The two new states, though unrecognised internationally, are stronger militarily and politically than most members of...
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Is Putin Really as Foolish as We Are?

Artículo
Fair Observer, 15.10.2015
John Feffer, autor y co-fundador de Foreing Policy in Focus (Institute for Policy Studies)
Putin’s attempt at “shock and awe” in Syria has all the hallmarks of failed US interventions of the past.
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A Gun Smuggler’s Lamment

Reportaje
Foreign Policy, 05.10.2015
Elizabeth Dickinson, periodista con estudios africanos de la U. de Yale
Perched in a seaside villa in eastern Tunisia, Osama Kubbar had anxiously waited for days for the final news about his guns. It was May 2011, five months into the Arab Spring, and Kubbar, a Libyan smuggler, was remotely tracking the slow movements...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Twenty Years on From Dayton

Artículo
OpenDemocracy, 05.10.2015
Mirela Zarichinova, periodista independiente y asesora legal en DDHH en Bulgarian Helsinki
Committee
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a paralysed state. Can a way out be found by leaving behind the Dayton Peace Accord?
The conference centre, now named “Richard Holbrooke”, seems deserted. We walk along its empty hallways but see no sign of human existence. The only...
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What’s the Point of Peacekeepers When they Don’t Keep the Peace?

Artículo
The Guardian, 17.09.2015
Chris McGreal, escritor senior
From Rwanda to Bosnia, Haiti to Congo, failures raise questions about future of United Nations blue helmets
Rwanda, 1994. The nadir of many lows for UN peacekeeping. Hundreds of desperate Tutsis sought refuge on the first day of the genocide at a school where 90 UN troops were under the command of...
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One Year After the War: Gaza’s Lost Hopes

Opinión
OpenDemocracy, 20.08.2015
Yasmeen Al-Khoudary, estudiante de magister en Cultural Heritage Studies (University College London)
A letter from Gaza, describing the impossibility of getting back to 'normal' one year after the war. Real change is needed before it is too late.
One year after we went through the third war on the Gaza Strip in six years, I find...
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A Solution for Syria

Análisis
OpenDemocracy, 16.07.2015
Bassma Kodmani, director ejecutivo de Arab Reform Initiative
Syria is central to the security and future of the Middle East, but conditions for a resolution of the Syrian conflict through a political solution do not exist. An excerpt from a NOREF expert analysis. Creating the conditions for a political solution Syria is known to Arabs as the heart...
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Who Lost Iraq?

Entrevista a funcionarios y académicos estadounidenses
Politico Magazine, julio/agosto 2015
Michael Crowley
Did George W. Bush create the Islamic State? Did Barack Obama? We asked the insiders to tell us who’s to blame. For a brief, happy—and misguided—moment, most Americans stopped thinking about Iraq. After withdrawing the last U.S. troops in 2011, President Barack Obama declared the country “sovereign,...
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