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...
“The Iranian Threat” Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?
Artículo TomDispatch, 20.08.2015 Noam Chomsky, académico y profesor emeritus del Departamento de Linguística y Filosofía (MIT)Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the UN Security Council and Germany. Most of the world apparently shares the...
Las relaciones militares Chile-Bolivia-Perú: Claves para la resolución de conflictos
Extracto de ponencia XII Congreso Nacional de Ciencia Política (Mendoza), 12-15.08.2015 Daniela Cervantes, Renata Santander y Francisca Gallardo, cientistas políticas de la UDPIntroducción. La relación que Chile ha tenido con sus países vecinos, específicamente con Perú y Bolivia, ha sido históricamente conflictiva a partir de la Guerra del Pacífico. Una larga tradición de conflictos que no han podido...
Pakistan’s Shocking Strategic Shift
Artículo National Interest, 05.08.2015 Sameer Lalwani, postdoctoral fellow en la RAND CorporationPakistan is often characterized as a belligerent, unyielding, and destabilizing force in international affairs. But despite longstanding and widespread negative perceptions, Pakistani behavior and strategic culture is changing for the better in important respects, as recently exemplified by anti-Taliban operations in the country’s North Waziristan region...
Why the Next Fighter Will Be Manned, and the One After That
Ensayo War on the Rocks, 05.08.2015 Mike Pietrucha, coronel oficial de la fuerza aerea de EEUU e instructor de guerra electrónicaSometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it — often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early...
How the Army Built the Habsburg Empire
Reseña de libro The National Interest, Vol.138 (July-August 2015) William Anthony Hay, profesor de historia y director del Instituto de Humanidades (Mississippi State University)Richard Bassett: For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619–1918 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)
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The reputation of the Austrian imperial army, unlike its Prussian counterpart, does not command much...