Columna Página Siete, 21.10.2015 Marco Antonio Barroso Mendizábal, abogado, diplomático y catedráticoConsumada la ocupación del departamento del Litoral de Bolivia, Chile entendió que la única forma de conseguir la paz era someterla y asfixiarla. La suscripción de Pacto de Tregua, del 4 de abril de 1884, significó una etapa de angustia y de gran peligro. El historiador chileno...
How the West Underestimated Russia’s Military Power
Opinión The Diplomat, 17.10.2015 Franz-Stefan Gady, editor adjunto y senior fellow del East-West Institute
- Focusing on shortcomings in equipment made Western military analysts underestimate Moscow’s military capacity.
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. [caption id="attachment_15358" align="alignnone" width="490"]
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Richard Nixon lied. Surely this is... A Pivotal U.S.-Korea Summit?
Análisis Council on Foreign Relations, 13.10.2015 Scott Snyder, miembro senior de Koreas Studies y director del programa US-Korea PolicyRestricting a Nuclear North Korea North Korea's persistent, belligerent rhetoric and unchecked efforts to develop nuclear and missile capabilities will top the Obama-Park summit's agenda. The immediate challenge is how to disrupt a pattern of North Korean long-range missile and...
La guerra de Crimea y la carga de la Brigada Ligera
Isabel Undurraga Matta[1]
Dos hechos de actualidad ameritan la presente columna histórica: por un lado, las guerras religiosas en el Medio Oriente y, por el otro, el conflicto por la península de Crimea en el Mar Negro, recientemente anexada por Rusia. En el primer caso, chiíes y suníes combaten en Irak, Siria y Yemen,...
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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 YalePerched 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...
Paraguay y Bolivia comparten un destino geopolítico común
Editorial ABC Color, 29.09.2015Han transcurrido 83 años desde el fin de la épica batalla de Boquerón que, con ser la primera librada en la Guerra del Chaco, estaba sin embargo destinada a marcar el vuelco del destino a favor de las armas paraguayas en “el más enigmático de todos los conflictos americanos”, al decir del historiador...
The Cautionary Tale of China’s Lin Biao
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 13.09.2015 Thomas Vien"The revolution is like Saturn, she devours her own children," says doomed French revolutionary Georges Danton in Georg Buchner's 1835 play Danton's Death. The Chinese revolution — and its aftershocks throughout the period of Mao Zedong's rule — was no exception. On Sept. 13, 1971, a Chinese Trident 1E airliner crashed in...
Walk with the Devil: Evil Bargains and the Islamic State
Artículo War on the Rocks, 02.09.2015 Patrick Porter, director académico del Strategic and Security Institute (University of Exeter)How to counter the Islamic State is an especially difficult problem for Western policymakers, but the issue of compromise, and which devil to dance with, cannot be dodged forever.“My children,” President Franklin Roosevelt pronounced in his fatherly way...
Diplomacy and the South China Sea
Opinión The Diplomat, 17.08.2015 Scott Devary, licenciado en RRII y Diplomacia (Seton Hall University) y MBA en ciencia política (U. de Washington)Some diplomatic innovation may be the best chance to manage disputes and forestall conflictRecent months have brought shocking photos showing new manmade islands and a gargantuan industrial effort in the South China Sea being undertaken...