Archivos de Categoría: Etnias

La paradoja de Merkel

Opinión
El País, 13.08.2016
Máriam Martínez-Bascuñan
  • En Alemania y en Europa se está produciendo un choque entre dos almas: una cosmopolita y humanista, y otra mezquina y egoísta de corte nacionalista
[caption id="attachment_32570" align="alignnone" width="735"]La canciller alemana, Angela Merkel. ARCHIVO EFE La canciller alemana, Angela Merkel. ARCHIVO EFE[/caption] Hace un año Merkel...
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Fiddler on the Front Line

Reportaje
Foreign Policy, 10.08.2016
Linda Kinstler (texto) Amnon Gutman (fotos)
  • On the outskirts of Kiev, one rabbi is using the war in eastern Ukraine to revive a long-lost way of life: the shtetl.
When the rabbi of Chernobyl, Mordechai Twersky, felt he was dying in 1837, he set out on a long walk from Kiev. He made it...
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Géopolitique du Japon: un collapsus démographique programmé

Extracto de libro ["Géopolitique du Japon. Une île face au monde", Presses Universitaires de France, Bouissou 2014]
Diploweb.com, 08.08.2016
Jean-Marie Bouissou, historiador francés y director de investigación (Sciences Po)
1 Les hommes ont fait la force du Japon pendant plus d’un siècle après sa réouverture [voir chapitre 1, II, 2]. Aujourd’hui,...
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El proceso de ‘reimperialización’ de Rusia, 2000-2016

Documento N*11 (2016)
Real Instituto Elcano, 05.07.2016
Mira Milosevich-Juaristi , investigadora senior asociada
 

(1) Introducción: en busca de la identidad post imperial

Con el colapso del comunismo en Rusia, en 1991, se culminaba la desaparición de dos sucesivas entidades políticas: la del Imperio ruso (1550-1914), que duró más de 400 años, y la de la Unión Soviética (1922-1991),...
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Iran: The Threat Within

Análisis
Geopolitical Diary, 16.06.2016
[caption id="attachment_29629" align="alignnone" width="534"]1 IRGC forces clashed with Iranian Kurds in northwest Iran on Wednesday. With so much militant activity throughout the broader Kurdish region, it was only a matter of time before Iranian Kurdish rebels started making noise. (-/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] Iran is producing more oil...
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What China Owes a Bygone Era

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 19.05.2016
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Summary

Since the end of the Cold War, international politics has been defined by the rise of universal human rights as norms. The leading world power, the United States, has used human rights rhetoric to pursue its global interests, citing it in plans to...
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Bulgaria and Romania: Caught Between Crises

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 09.05.2016
 

Forecast

Romania and Bulgaria will contend with and become increasingly involved in Europe's refugee crisis and the standoff with Russia over Ukraine. In the refugee crisis, both countries' efforts to enter the Schengen area will be hampered by EU states' measures to limit movement between countries. As the Russia-West standoff develops, Romania and Bulgaria will...
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Croatia’s Far Right Weaponizes the Past

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 06.05.2016
Paul Hockenos
  • The new government includes an outspoken apologist for the country's World War II-era fascist regime.
Picture1 The European Union’s newest member, Croatia, has an unabashed and strong-willed fascist in its new cabinet — one who makes the right-wingers in power in Hungary and Poland look like wimps....
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The World’s Next Country

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 21.01.2015
Christian Caryl, periodista, columnista y escritor norteamericano
  • The Kurds are on the verge of getting a homeland of their own. If they do, the Middle East will never be the same.
1 As you walk around the streets of this city of 500,000, you could be forgiven...
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Death and Destruction: Bin Laden’s True Legacy

Análisis
Security Weekly, 05.05.2016
Scott Stewart
Osama bin Laden (© AP file) May 2 marked the five-year anniversary of the U.S. raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. In the wake of that operation, we noted that while bin Laden's death fulfilled a sense...
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