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,...
Trump’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad National Security Team
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 06.10.2018 James George Jatras, ex diplomático norteamericano y asesor internacional (liderazgo republicano-Senado)Gareth Porter paints a dismal picture. Time and again, President Donald Trump indicates he wants to do the right thing: get out Afghanistan, get out of Syria, get out of South Korea. Every time, his national security team – the people he appointed – sends...
Two Major Middle East Projects Are Afoot & Gaining Mass; They May Collide Before Long
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 18.09.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y fundador del Conflicts Forum de BeirutOut from the ashes of the two mega projects of this expiring decade – i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) attempted Mideast take-over, and, contrarily, the Gulf project to rupture the MB - and to reconstitute hereditary, tribal absolutism (the ‘Arab System’) - two...
Turkey’s damage-control campaign in Idlib
Blog Middle East Institute, 04.09.2018 Robert S. Ford, embajador (r) e investigador norteamericano (MEI)The presidents of Russia, Iran, and Turkey will meet on Friday, Sept. 7, in Tehran to discuss agreed-upon paths forward in the Syrian war. The Turkish government hopes to forestall a massive Syrian government assault on the crowded opposition-held province of Idlib. Ankara is...
Is a ‘Suez’ Event Being Prepared for Syria?
Artículo Strategic-Culture.org, 01.09.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y director-fundador de Conflcts Forum (Beirut)So, the metamorphosis is done. President Trump has finally, fully, shed his 2016 Campaign ‘skin’ of loosely imagining a grand foreign policy bargain that could be the foundation for “WORLD PEACE, nothing less!” as Trump tweeted when imposing sanctions on Iran. We wrote, on 3...
Los caudillos se ponen nerviosos ante la inflación
Columna The New York Times, 16.08.2018 Max FisherLas crisis inflacionarias, como la que se cierne sobre Turquía, son negativas para cualquier gobierno, pero son aún más peligrosas para un subconjunto específico de gobernantes autoritarios: los tiranos populistas y caudillos. Este grupo se distingue por una particular tendencia a crear este tipo de crisis, por su resistencia inusual a corregirlas y porque el...
Rusia recupera hegemonía
Carta El Mercurio, 17.08.2018 Jaime Lagos Erazo, abogado y embajador (r)Desde la desintegración de la ex Unión Soviética, la actual Rusia, bajo su nuevo zar, Vladimir Putin, paulatinamente ha estado reconstruyendo ese antiguo Imperio. Con este designio, una vez asegurada una mayor presencia en el Ártico, la política expansionista rusa se dirigió hacia el sur, para asegurar una...
Iran Is Throwing a Tantrum but Wants a Deal
Artículo Foreign Policy, 15.08.2018 Dennis B. Ross, embajador (r), ex enviado nortemericano al Medio Oriente y consejero del Washington Institute for Near East Policy