Editorial The Economist, 01.07.2022
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...
¿De dónde sacó el canciller ruso que Hitler era judío?
Columna El Líbero, 07.05.2022 Carlos Alberto Montaner, periodista y escritor cubano
Cuando Vladimir Putin quiera culpar a alguien del papelazo que está haciendo en Ucrania, tiene la cabeza de turco ideal: el ministro de Relaciones ExterioresArdió Troya. Al canciller ruso Sergey Lavrov se le ocurrió decir que Adolfo Hitler “tenía sangre judía” en un programa de la...
Xi Jinping Is Fighting a War for China’s History
Artículo Foreign Policy, 01.05.2022 Katie Stallard, editora de la revista New Statesman
Fear of “historical nihilism” has haunted China’s leadership for yearsChina’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin strode out to the Gate of Heavenly Peace in the center of Beijing. The sky overhead was perfectly blue. The crowds waved their red flags in perfect unison. This...
Vladimir Putin Played Germany’s Aging Patriarchs for Fools
Artículo World Politics Review, 20.04.2022 Alexander Clarkson, profesor en Estudios Europeos del King’s College-LondonUsually, parents don’t congratulate their children for ending up in detention at school. But for my Ukrainian mom in early-1990s Germany, there were some things that mattered more than what my teachers thought. Having opted to learn Russian at my high school in the...