Archivos de Categoría: Guerra Civil

Five Options for the U.S. in Syria

Blog
Rand Corporation, 21.10.2015
Brian Michael Jenkins, consejero del presidente de la RAND Corporation
  • Syrian President al-Assad made a surprise visit to Moscow on October 20, 2015, to thank Russian President Putin for launching air strikes against Islamist militants in Syria
With the debate in Washington about the success or failure of American strategy in Syria and Iraq continuing...
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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.
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ÉpocaRadical: La formación del Frente Popular en Chile, 1935-1938

Artículo
El Demócrata, 06.10.2015
Alejandro San Francisco, historiador (Oxford), profesor (PUC) e investigador (CEUSS)
La política chilena tenía características que la enmarcaban, ciertamente con sus peculiaridades, con la política mundial de la década de 1930. Los partidos, las ideologías, las divisiones y problemas europeos de una u otra manera aparecían representadas en Chile. El impacto de la Guerra...
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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 Yale
Perched 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...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Twenty Years on From Dayton

Artículo
OpenDemocracy, 05.10.2015
Mirela Zarichinova, periodista independiente y asesora legal en DDHH en Bulgarian Helsinki
Committee
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a paralysed state. Can a way out be found by leaving behind the Dayton Peace Accord?
The conference centre, now named “Richard Holbrooke”, seems deserted. We walk along its empty hallways but see no sign of human existence. The only...
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Countering a Shapeless Terrorist Threat

Análisis
Security Weekly, 10.09.2015
Scott Stewart
Last week's Security Weekly discussed how the digital revolution has allowed terrorist operatives employing leaderless resistance methods to act as their own media. For groups such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State, this ability greatly enhances the effectiveness of propaganda. At the same time, however, the information disseminated benefits authorities by providing valuable...
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The Crisis of our Crises

Opinión
Project-Syndicate, 07.09.2015
Jeremy Adelman, director del Global History Lab en la U. de Princeton
At first glance, today’s major international crises seem to have little in common. Some, such as Greece’s debt drama, are economic disasters; others, like Syria’s implosion, are characterized by brutality and political chaos; and still others, most notably Ukraine’s predicament, fall somewhere in...
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Crisis de refugiados sirios

Carta
La Tercera, 28.08.2015
Fernando Orrego Vicuña
¿Cómo no compadecerse al ver a los miles de refugiados de Siria e Irak en Grecia, Macedonia y otros lugares de Europa?¿Y los centenares de ahogados en el Mediterráneo? ¿Y los 300 mil muertos en la guerra civil en Siria?¿Y los más de tres millones de refugiados en Jordania, Turquía o...
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The Geopolitics of the Syrian Civil War

Análisis
Geopolitical Weekly, 24.01.2014
Reva Bhalla, analista de seguridad con MBA (Georgetown University)
International diplomats will gather Jan. 22 in the Swiss town of Montreux to hammer out a settlement designed to end Syria's three-year civil war. The conference, however, will be far removed from the reality on the Syrian battleground. Only days before the conference was scheduled...
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