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...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...
Srebrenica 2015: conmemorando los 20 años del genocidio
Isabel Undurraga Matta[1]
Por estos días se ha conmemorado el vigécimo aniversario de una fecha fatídica, sino la que más, de las muchas que jalonaron la historia de la península de los Balcanes durante el siglo XX. Distintas nacionalidades, muy diferentes entre sí, habitaban ese territorio del sureste de Europa hasta el término de...
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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...
Quantum Geopolitics
Análisis Stratfor, 28.07.2015 Reva Bhalla, experta en relaciones internacionalesForecasting the shape the world will take in several years or decades is an audacious undertaking. There are no images to observe or precise data points to anchor us. We can only create a picture, and a fuzzy one at best. This is, after all, our basic human empirical...
The Taliban
Resumen ejecutivo CFR "InfoGuide" Presentation, 22.01.2015
- The Taliban has outlasted the world’s most potent military forces and its two main factions now challenge the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- As U.S. troops draw down, the next phase of conflict will have consequences that extend far beyond the region.
A Net Assessment on the Middle East
Análisis Geopolitical Weekly, 09.06.2015 George Friedman, fundador y presidente Stratfor Global IntelligenceThe term "Middle East" has become enormously elastic. The name originated with the British Foreign Office in the 19th century. The British divided the region into the Near East, the area closest to the United Kingdom and most of North Africa; the Far East, which was...
Dos de Fernando
Carta OpinionGlobal, 01.06.2015 Cristián Maquieira A., embajador (r) y director de CEPERIFernando Maquieira Elizalde es mi padre. Nació en Buenos Aires el año 1920 y durante treinta y tres años -entre 1940 y 1973- fue funcionario del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile, siguiendo los pasos de su padre, así como yo seguí los suyos. Era un hombre...
Why Israel Should Not Exist: An Illegitimate consequence of Western Imperialism
Opinión Counterpunch, 19.05.2015 Garry Leech, periodista, escritor y profesor en la Cape Breton University de CanadáBy suggesting that the state of Israel should not exist, I am not being anti-Semitic. I am, however, being anti-Zionist. There is a distinct difference. An anti-Semite is someone who is prejudiced against Jews. An anti-Zionist, on the other hand, is opposed...