Análisis en Profundidad
Artículo Revista de Historia, I (14.02.2015) y II (21.03.2015) David García
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La yihad es, sin riesgo a equivocarme, uno de los términos más presentes en nuestra vida cotidiana, tanto en los medios de comunicación como en cualquier conversación ordinaria. El Estado Islámico y los recientes atentados de París han acentuado el interés del mundo...Artículo Estudios de Política Exterior, 06.08.2015 Jaime TorrojaCon el paso de los siglos, el ser humano ha ido refinando cada vez más los instrumentos que emplea para eliminar a aquellos que le son odiosos. El pináculo de la industria de la muerte quizá sean aquellas armas que tienen el terrorífico nombre de Armas de Destrucción Masiva (WMD...
Artículo Deutsche Welle, 08.08.2015 Ben KnightThe Nuremberg trials of the Nazi leadership sparked a new era of international law and cooperation. They were founded on the London Charter, a visionary statute signed by the Allies on August 8, 1945.In the middle of a city that had officially been categorized as "90-percent dead" a few months before, 21...
Artículo Voltaire Network, 03.08.2015 Thierry Meyssan, académico e intelectual francés especializado en relaciones internacionales; presidente de Voltaire NetworkThe resumption of the repression of Kurds in Turkey is nothing more than a consequence of the impossible task of implementing the Juppé-Wright plan of 2011. While it was easy to deploy Daesh in the Syrian desert and the...
Artículo The National Interest, 06.08.2015 James Holmes, profesor de estrategia (Naval War College)Huddle up with Teddy Roosevelt, Clausewitz, and Wylie—and then you be the judge. Retrospectives on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki conjure up Theodore Roosevelt for me. That goes double when the anniversary is a multiple of ten—as it is today, the seventieth anniversary of...
Artículo Consortiumnews, 05.08.2015 William R. Polk, consultor en política internacional, escritor y ex profesor en HarvardMany Americans and Westerners are baffled by the violent rage expressed by many Muslims, but the reasons for their anger are real, deriving from a “deep history” of anti-Islamic wars and colonial exploitation of the Middle EastThe issue of terrorist attacks on America...
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...
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...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...