El Sahara marroquí, en desarrollo
Cada 6 de noviembre, los marroquíes conmemoramos el aniversario de la Marcha Verde, que permitió a Marruecos recuperar provincias del Sahara que conforman una parte muy emblemática de su territorio, ya que no sólo fueron el origen de varias dinastías que gobernaron el país en siglos pasados, sino que...Ivan Maisky, el cronista secreto
Reseña biográfica La Nación, 18.10.2015 Hinde Pomeraniec, escritora y crítica literaria argentinaEl hombre no podía parar de escribir, lo anotaba todo en su diario obsesivamente, aún conociendo los riesgos que corría en tiempos del terror y las grandes purgas de Stalin. Hijo de un médico judío polaco y una madre maestra ortodoxa rusa, había nacido en 1884...
Forecasting Japan (I): A Slow-Burning Crisis
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 28.09,2015Summary 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 order. This analysis is the first in a four-part a series that forecasts the nature of that shift and the...
Forecasting Japan (II): China Rises
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 29.09.2015Summary 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 order. This analysis is the second in a four-part a series that forecasts the nature of that shift and the...
Kissingerian Realism
Reseña de libro [Henry A. Kissiner en World Order. Penguin Press 2014] American Review, (junio 2015) Jacob HeilbrunnThe 91-year-old former secretary of state delivers an impressive coda to a career that has had more than its share of distinctionFew figures have played a more prominent role in modern American foreign policy than Henry Kissinger. As national security...
Kissinger the Freedom Fighter
Opinión The Wall Street Journal, 18.09.2015 Niall Ferguson, historiador británico y profesor de HarvardHenry Kissinger is often condemned as a heartless practitioner of realpolitik. But early in his career, he was strikingly idealisticSurely no statesman in modern times, and certainly no American secretary of state, has been as revered and then as reviled as Henry Kissinger. At the height...
El mito Allende
Columna El Mercurio, 10.09.2015 Álvaro Góngora, historiadorSe han cumplido 42 años desde el golpe de Estado de 1973 y aún la izquierda sigue evocando el episodio pasando por alto la situación que vivió el país bajo la Unidad Popular (UP). Se enfoca -seguirá haciéndolo- en el régimen dictatorial que le sucedió, acentuando sus episodios represivos. Ni una...
Why Trump Is Good for the GOP
Artículo Politico Magazine, 02.08.2015 Paul Goldman (ex presidente del Partido Democrata de Virginia) y Mark J. Rozell (decano de George Mason University)Republicans should be thanking the billionaire for sending them a most necessary message.Donald Trump is giving the GOP a tax-free gift, paid for entirely with his own personal funds. His pro-free market...
The Koreas, Bastion of Cold War Realism
Artículo The Diplomat, 25.06.2015 Morgan Potts, editor del British Association for Korean StudiesA reluctant but pragmatic defense of neorealism in Northeast Asia. Nuclear crises, propaganda and espionage, a clash of ideologies – the Korean peninsula is the only place in the world where the Cold War lingers. This persistence is the result of the 1953 Armistice Agreement and...
Imperial Ambitions: Russia’s Military Buildup
Ensayo World Affairs, junio 2015 Stephen Blank, miembro de American Foreign Policy CouncilIn September 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted that he could, at will, occupy any Eastern European capital in two days. This apparently spontaneous utterance reveals, probably more than Russia’s new official defense doctrine, Moscow’s true assessment of NATO’s capabilities, cohesion, and will to resist....