Ensayo OpenDemocracy, 06.08.2015 Tom Engelhardt (co-fundador del American Empire Project) y Christian Appy (profesor de historiaUniversity of Massachusetts)Will an American president ever offer a formal apology? Will our country ever regret the dropping of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,” those two bombs that burned hotter than the sun?So many decades later, it’s hard to remember the kind...
How the Army Built the Habsburg Empire
Reseña de libro The National Interest, Vol.138 (July-August 2015) William Anthony Hay, profesor de historia y director del Instituto de Humanidades (Mississippi State University)Richard Bassett: For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619–1918 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)
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The reputation of the Austrian imperial army, unlike its Prussian counterpart, does not command much...Turkey in Danger
Artículo Voltaire Network, 30.07.2015 Thierry Meyssan, intelectual especializado en Relaciones Internacionales y fundador de Voltaire NetworkWhile the Western Press salutes the authorisation given by Turkey to the United States, allowing the US to use its military bases in order to fight Daesh, Thierry Meyssan looks at the nation’s internal tensions. In his view, maintaining Mr. Erdoğan in...
Desert Storm, the Last Classic War
Ensayo Council on Foreign Relations, 31.07.2015 Richard N. Haass, presidente de Council on Foreign RelationsTwenty-five years after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, the lessons of the Gulf War remain urgent, even in today’s chaotic Middle EastIt was mid-July 1990, and for several days the U.S. intelligence community had been watching Saddam Hussein mass his forces along Iraq’s border...
Acotaciones sobre la paz del Chaco
Columna La Razón, 29.07.2015 Ramiro Prudencio LizónEs menester dejar bien sentado que la guerra del Chaco no se llevó a cabo por el petróleoEn este mes en que se han cumplido 80 años de la paz del Chaco, es necesario que los bolivianos tengamos una visión más objetiva de ese tremendo suceso y nos desprendamos de mitos...
Comprendre les origines de la guerre au Yémen
Reportaje Le Monde, 18.04.2015Depuis le 26 mars, une coalition militaire menée par l'Arabie saoudite bombarde le Yémen. Elle agit à la demande du président Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, chassé du pays par une rébellion et réfugié à Riyad. Les rebelles houthistes, des chiites originaires du nord du pays, cibles des bombardements, sont quant à eux soutenus par l'Iran,...
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...
Who Lost Iraq?
Entrevista a funcionarios y académicos estadounidenses Politico Magazine, julio/agosto 2015 Michael CrowleyDid George W. Bush create the Islamic State? Did Barack Obama? We asked the insiders to tell us who’s to blame. For a brief, happy—and misguided—moment, most Americans stopped thinking about Iraq. After withdrawing the last U.S. troops in 2011, President Barack Obama declared the country “sovereign,...
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....
Un oasis para los hijos de la guerra
Reportaje El País, 25.05.2015 Ana PalaciosLos niños soldado de Uganda hoy construyen su presente intentando superar el trauma. Hope North es un un refugio físico y emocional para esos jóvenes Hace casi 10 años que en Uganda no hay guerra, pero sí que ha quedado una sombra alargada de ese pasado sangriento: los niños soldado. Hoy adultos, muchos...