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...
Pondering Hitler’s Legacy
Análisis Geopolitical Weekley, 01.09.2015 George Friedman, presidente de Stratfor Global IntelligenceHappenstance has brought me today to a house on the Austria-Germany border, just south of Salzburg. That puts me about 3 miles from the German town of Berchtesgaden, on the German side of the border. Adolf Hitler's home, the Berghof, was just outside the town, on a...
Balas, abejas y chapuzas detienen una invasión
Artículo El País, 29.08.2015 Jacinto Antón, periodista (U. Autónoma de Barcelona) y escritor catalánEn Tanga, en África oriental, los alemanes consiguieron derrotar en 1914 a una fuerza británica muy superiorLa batalla de Tanga no podía faltar este verano, como broche de la serie. Es cierto que su nombre de resonancias festivas, que en realidad se refiere a...
La Roca, espejo de España
Opinión El Mundo, 12.08.2015 Eva Díaz PérezGibraltar no puede evitar su destino de campo de duelo anglo-español que asoma cuando se agostan los temas y hay que sacar punta a las cosas vencidas por exceso de sol y aburrimiento. Ahora el conflicto es por las incursiones de España en aguas inglesas de Gibraltar, aguas que tienen el...
Nuremberg Trials Leave Behind Potent, Flawed Legacy
Artículo Deutsche Welle, 08.08.2015 Ben KnightThe Nuremberg trials of the Nazi leadership sparked a new era of international law and cooperation. They were founded on the London Charter, a visionary statute signed by the Allies on August 8, 1945.In the middle of a city that had officially been categorized as "90-percent dead" a few months before, 21...
An Insane Ambition Which is Turning Into a Civil War: Clinton, Juppé, Erdoğan, Daesh and the PKK
Artículo Voltaire Network, 03.08.2015 Thierry Meyssan, académico e intelectual francés especializado en relaciones internacionales; presidente de Voltaire NetworkThe resumption of the repression of Kurds in Turkey is nothing more than a consequence of the impossible task of implementing the Juppé-Wright plan of 2011. While it was easy to deploy Daesh in the Syrian desert and the...
What Northern Ireland Teaches Us about Today’s War on Terror
Artículo GlobalPost, 15.07.2015 Corinne Purtill, corresponsal senior en el Reino UnidoIt was the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on London's transport system, and the memorial in Hyde Park was awash in flowers. Fifty-two metal plinths — one for each person killed on London Tube trains and buses on July 7, 2005 — rose against the sunny summer sky....
Iran Is No ‘Strategic Ally’
Artículo World Affairs, 17.07.2015 Alan JohnsonWith the nuclear deal done, it was no surprise that Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, everybody’s favorite uncle, has been smiling beneficently. What is astonishing is that Sir Christopher Meyer, British ambassador to the United States from 1997 until his retirement in 2003, has been smiling back. In fact, writing in the Telegraph, Meyer—playing...
Momentous Times for Democracy in Europe
Artículo OpenDemocracy, 13.07.2015 Mary Kaldor, profesora de Governanza Global (London School of Economics & Political Science)The shocking behaviour of the Eurozone leaders in punishing Greece for voting against austerity has alarming implications for the future. Is it too late to put democracy and Europe together again? We are living through momentous...
Cameron advierte de que no quiere un Reino Unido controlado por la UE
Reportaje El País, 26.06.2015 Belén Domínguez CebriánEl primer ministro británico, David Cameron, se ha mostrado "satisfecho" tras la última cumbre de jefes de Estado y Gobierno de la Unión Europea (UE) que se ha celebrado este jueves y viernes en Bruselas. Uno de los temas en la agenda —aunque eclipsado por laestrategia de inmigración y el encallamiento de las negociaciones...