Columna El Líbero, 25.07.2022 José Rodríguez Elizondo, periodista, escritor y Premio Nacional de Humanidades 2021
How Putin Learned to Hold Deadly Grudges
Artículo Foreign Policy, 17.07.2022 William Taubman, biógrafo de líderes soviéticos
Russia’s president has been shaped by decades of bitterness and revenge.
The invasion of Ukraine caught many analysts of Russia off guard. Russian President Vladimir Putin had long been thought of as rough, tough, and brutal—but also calculating and cautious. The wild and reckless Ukrainian adventure seemed out...La seguridad y el estado de Chile
Comentarios AthenaLab, 28.06.2022 John Griffiths Spielman y Marcelo Masalleras ViolaEl orden internacional está en transición, el sistema se ha tornado más inestable y se presentan condiciones de mayor conflictividad. La competencia entre grandes potencias, particularmente el enfrentamiento geoestratégico que tiene como escenario la cuenca del Pacífico pone a Chile en un lugar sensible. Estas y otras...
An Anatomy of Erasure
Editorial The Economist, 01.07.2022
How a free and open Hong Kong became a police state
Aquarter of a century after Britain returned Hong Kong to China, the texture of the city, its sights and sounds, are little changed. In its thrumming wet markets, carp still lie under red lamps, fishmongers extolling their freshness. Shoppers worship the gods...Chile y Bolivia, ¿hasta cuándo tan lejos?
Columna El Mercurio, 24.06.2022 Alberto Salas y Juan Eduardo Errázuriz, presidente y vicepresidente del Capítulo Chileno (Consejo Empresarial Chile-Bolivia)Por muchos años Chile y Bolivia han sostenido numerosos conflictos por temas limítrofes, lo que ha impedido que ambas naciones mantengan relaciones comerciales robustas y estrechas. ¿Los principales perjudicados? Los propios habitantes de cada uno de estos países,...
What the Fall of Empires Tells Us About the Ukraine War
Artículo Foreign Policy, 22.06.2022 Anatol Lieven, académico del Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Russia’s war can only be understood as a bloody post-imperial conflict.
The Soviet Union is commonly described in the West as the Soviet empire or even Russian empire and in key respects this was indeed the case. During the Cold War, Moscow occupied and...Germany Inc.: Europe’s Monsters
Artículo London Review of Books, Vol. 44 (10) 2022 Jan-Werner Müller, politólogo e intelectual alemán
Europe after the invasionIn 1990 the heavy metal band Scorpions released ‘Wind of Change’, a song celebrating the end of the Cold War: ‘The future’s in the air/Can feel it everywhere.’ It also contained the hopeful lines: ‘Let your balalaika sing/What my...
OTAN: vituperada, atragantada, aplaudida
Blog Republica, 31.05.2022 Inocencio F. Arias, embajador (r) y columnista españolRecuerdo claramente la campaña, participé en ella, de entrada, en la OTAN hace estos días 40 años. En contra de lo que se afirma, a principio de los ochenta al español de a pie le importaba un pepino la OTAN. Ni frío ni calor le daba,...
Moscow Is Using Memory Diplomacy to Export Its Narrative to the World
Artículo Foreign Policy, 25.06.2021 Jade McGlynn, an academic at the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies
Putin is pushing Russian revisionist history to bolster the Kremlin’s influence abroad and its legitimacy at homeThe memory of World War II—or the Great Patriotic War, as Russia calls it—occupies a cult-like status in Russian popular and political culture. At home, the...
Sinn Fein Is Now in the Driver’s Seat on Both Sides of the Irish Border
Artículo World Politics Review, 10.05.2022 Peter McLoughlin, profesor de historia política contemporánea (Queen’s University-Belfast)Sinn Fein’s historic victory in Northern Ireland’s elections last week, which made it the largest party in the state’s devolved parliament, is significant in numerous ways. For the first time in Northern Ireland’s 101-year history, a nationalist party is now dominant in a...