Archivos de Categoría: Geopolítica

Russia and the West (V): Central Asia, a Different Kind of Threat

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 01.01.2016
Analista principal: Eugene Chausovsky
Summary Much like the Caucasus, Central Asia serves as a relatively new but no less important staging ground for the ongoing competition between Russia and the West. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the region has been somewhat of a melange of indecision and opportunism: Kazakhstan has stayed close...
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How China Sees Russia: Beijing and Moscow Are Close, but Not Allies

Artículo
Foreign Affairs, Vol.95 (1) enero/febrero 201
Fu Ying, presidente de la Comisión de RREE del Congreso Popular del PCCH
At a time when Russian relations with the United States and western European countries are growing cold, the relatively warm ties between China and Russia have attracted renewed interest. Scholars and journalists in the West find themselves debating...
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Entre l’Iran et l’Arabie saoudite, une nécessaire désescalade

Editorial
Le Monde, 04.01.2016
Comme les somnambules de 1914, l’Arabie saoudite et l’Iran semblent avancer inexorablement vers l’abîme de la guerre. Chaque action de l’un appelle une réaction de l’autre, et nul n’envisage, pour le moment, de ne pas avoirle dernier mot dans l’escalade en cours. Ce qui se passe n’est que la suite logique de la montée des tensions...
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Russia and the West (I): On the Origins of a Conflict

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 28.12.2015
Analista principal: Eugene Chausovsky
Summary
  • This is the first installment of a five-part series that explores the past, present and future of the confrontation between Russia and the West on the Eurasian landmass.
Since its emergence as an organized state, Russia has collided with the West. For over a millennium, the two have clashed economically, politically...
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Russia and the West (II): Ukraine Caught Between East and West

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Stratfor Global Intelligence, 29.12.2015
Analista principal: Eugene Chausovsky
Summary Russia's desire for influence in Ukraine is as old as the Russian state itself. It has fought for centuries to protect its stake in the Eastern European nation from the encroachment of the West, often turning to natural gas cutoffs or outright military intervention to do so. Since the end...
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Perils of Cornering Russia

Reseña de libros:
 -“Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West’s Fault”
John Mearsheimer (Foreign Affairs Sep/Oct 2014)
-"Faulty Powers"
 Michael McFaul, Stephen Sestanovich, y John Mearsheimer (Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 2014)
American Review, (junio 2015)
Susan Eisenhower
  • The debate over the Russia–Ukraine crisis has its genesis in the arguments over NATO expansion in the 1990s
Nothing underscores the peculiarities of the debate over...
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A Path Out of the Middle East Collapse

Opinión
The Wall Street Journal, 17.10.2015
Henry A. Kissinger, ex consejero nacional de seguridad y ex secretario de estado
The debate about whether the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran regarding its nuclear program stabilized the Middle East’s strategic framework had barely begun when the region’s geopolitical framework collapsed. Russia’s unilateral military action in Syria is the...
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The New Latin America

Análisis
Geopolitical Weekly, 03.11.2015
Reggie Thompson, MBA en RRII (U. de Texas A&M)
Several years into a Chinese economic slowdown, the Latin American economies that relied on China to buy up their key exports are feeling the pain. With less hard currency coming in, governments across the region are rapidly readjusting their spending plans and preparing to govern...
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‘Gallito’ entre China y Estados Unidos

Editorial
El Mercurio, 02.11.2015
La proyección de EE.UU. al Asia Pacífico, y su intención de marcar presencia en esa región, causa tensiones con China, que advirtió del peligro de crear un conflicto entre ambos. Su política de "giro al Asia" y el Acuerdo Transpacífico de Cooperación Económica (TPP) alarman a Beijing, que no quiere a Washington demasiado...
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Ukraine and Europe: What Shoud be Done?

Artículo
New York Review of Books, Vol.62 (15) 08.10.2015
George Soros
Because of the structural defects of the euro, the European authorities have had to become masters of the art of muddling through one crisis after another. This practice is popularly known as kicking the can down the road although it would be more accurate to describe it...
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