Columna The National Interest, 09.01.2019 Colin P. Clarke (cientista politico-RAND) y William H. Courtney (ex embajador y académico noteamericano)
Trump’s Syria decision was essentially correct. Here’s how he can make the most of it.
Policy Analisis The Middle East Institute, 02.01.2019 Robert S. Ford, académico (Middle East Institute), profesor (Yale) y ex embajador norteamericanoPresident Trump’s Dec. 23 tweet promising a “slow and highly coordinated” withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria may ease the gnashing of teeth among officials and analysts in Washington, but it won’t end the criticism of his decision....
Foreign Policy Should Not Get Lost in Israel’s Election Campaign
Análisis The Washington Institute, 02.01.2019 David Makovsky (académico-The Washington Institute) y Dennis B. Ross (académico y ex embajador norteamericano)
Candidates need to be asked how they will deal with thorny issues such as Russian blowback in Syria, Hezbollah missile threats, Gaza reconstruction, and Iranian nuclear resurgence
It is a truism in politics that elections are about the future, and not just about...Las incógnitas de seguridad internacional para el 2019
Columna Infobae, 31.12.2018 Roberto García Moritán, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE argentinoLa agenda de seguridad internacional para el 2019 se muestra compleja. Una serie de conflictos no resueltos en distintas partes del mundo son propensos a generar enfrentamientos de envergadura con consecuencias globales. Un ejemplo es el Mar de China meridional, donde las diferencias comerciales...
Hablemos de Yemen
Columna La Opinion de Málaga, 26.11.2018 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de EspañaLo merece porque después de años de sufrimiento hay sobre la mesa una oportunidad para negociar un alto el fuego. Visité la zona cuando todavía eran dos países: uno que se titulaba república democrática y era una dictadura comunista con capital en Adén, y otro...
Presión sobre Irán
Editorial El Mercurio, 09.11.2018El gobierno de Estados Unidos ha sido directo y transparente al indicar las razones que tiene para reanudar todas las sanciones en contra de Irán, después de retirarse en mayo del acuerdo que firmaran en 2015 para detener el programa nuclear de los ayatolás: quiere ver colapsar la economía iraní para que el...
The Unraveling of the Netanyahu Project for the Middle East
Columna Strategic-Culture, 05.11.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y director fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)Nahum Barnea, a leading Israeli commentator, writing in Yedioth Ahronoth in May (in Hebrew), set out, unambiguously, the ‘deal’ behind Trump’s Middle East policy: In the wake of the US exit from JCPOA [which occurred on 8 May], Trump, Barnea wrote, will threaten a rain...
A third gulf war? Unlikely but …
Columna The Japan Times, 22.10.2018 Kuni Miyake, presidente (Foreign Policy Institute) y director académico (Canon Institute for Global Studies)Are the United States and Iran headed for a direct military confrontation? The Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), a Tokyo-based independent think tank where I direct its foreign policy/national security shop, conducted a 24-hour policy simulation (or so-called...
Britain on the Leash with the United States – but at Which End?
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 13.10.2018 James George Jatras, ex diplomático norteamericano y asesor internacional del liderazgo republicano (Senado)
- The “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom is often assumed to be one where the once-great, sophisticated Brits are subordinate to the upstart, uncouth Yanks
In Trade, as in Foreign Policy, America Goes for ‘Broke’
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 09.10.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y director fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)Trump’s Administration is putting its ‘all’ on red on the roulette wheel of a radically leveraged US trade and foreign policy. It is a bet that a ruthless ‘no prisoners taken’ pursuit of naked US commercial interest can restore American economic hegemony. But,...