Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 01.10.2015Summary Since the end of the Cold War, the Pacific Rim has seen China rise and Japan stagnate. However, Japan is approaching an epochal shift that will enable it to challenge the current orderIn the coming years, Japan will transition out of its slow-burning state of crisis as it seeks to make a radical break...
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...
Forecasting Japan (III): The Failure of Reform
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 30.09.2015Summary Since the end of the Cold War, the Pacific Rim has seen China rise and Japan stagnate. However, Japan is approaching an epochal shift that will enable it to challenge the current orderAs the strategic situation in the Pacific changes, Japan will be forced to adapt. Tokyo will need to pull the...
Reflexiones sobre la relación bilateral. La demanda de Bolivia contra Chile
Artículo Anuario de Derecho Público 2015 de la UDP Eduardo Rodríguez G., abogado, profesor universitario y ex embajador chileno en Japón y ArgentinaIntroducción La historia de las relaciones chileno bolivianas, ha estado jalonada de diversas y agudas disidencias de naturaleza política, jurídica y económica. Este proceso ha llevado estos vínculos, en la segunda década del siglo XXI,...
La Canciller que maneja la política exterior de Venezuela como un auto chocador
Reportaje El Mercurio, 19.09.2015 Gaspar Ramírez[Delcy Rodríguez fue directora de Asuntos Internacionales del Ministerio de la Energía y Minas en 2003, y vicecanciller para Europa en 2005]"Estados Unidos persiste en desestabilizar gobiernos legítimos y constitucionales empleando agentes y violencia terrorista", respondió la canciller venezolana Delcy Rodríguez a los cuestionamientos que el secretario de Estado de EE.UU., John...
1945: Asia’s Powers Converge at Okinawa
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 06.09.2015On Sept. 7, 1945, Japanese forces in the Ryukyu Islands officially surrendered to the Americans on the island of Okinawa. U.S. forces spent more than 80 days between April and June 1945 taking the island. The battle ended with 300,000 military and civilian casualties, the death of U.S. Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar...
Britain’s Status as a Trading Nation Ties It to Europe
Análisis Geopolitical Weekley, 08.09.2015 Mark Fleming-Williams, analista financiero y MBA de la U. de LeedsAt some point in the next two years, British voters will decide whether to remain a part of the European Union. This will be the first time Britons have been consulted on the subject since 1975, when 67 percent voted to stay in....
A More Assertive German Foreign Policy
Análisis Geopolitical Weekley, 04.02.2014 George Friedman y Marc LanthemannThe Ukrainian crisis is important in itself, but the behavior it has elicited from Germany is perhaps more important. Berlin directly challenged Ukraine's elected president for refusing to tighten relations with the European Union and for mistreating Ukrainians who protested his decision. In challenging President Viktor Yanukovich, Berlin also...
Why the U.S. Feels It Must Contain Russia
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence Eugene Chausovsky, ruso-norteamericano licenciado en RRII (U. de Texas)At the outset of the Cold War, in 1946, U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan sent what became popularly known as the "long telegram" from the embassy in Moscow outlining a policy of containment in dealing with the Soviet Union. The policy was made public in...
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...