Opinión Information Clearing House, 17.03.2016 Thierry Meyssan, periodista y activista político francés
Chemical Wonders
Reseña de libro [Pierre Razoux en The Iran-Iraq War, Harvard University Press, 2015] London Review of Books, Vol.38 (6) 04.02.2016 Joost Hiltermann, miembro del International Crisis Group
- Predicting what will start a war, and when, is an unrewarding business. Long-term trends (‘causes’) are often clear enough, but not the proximate causes, or triggers.
- We can assess the comparative...
Entre l’Iran et l’Arabie saoudite, une nécessaire désescalade
Editorial Le Monde, 04.01.2016Comme les somnambules de 1914, l’Arabie saoudite et l’Iran semblent avancer inexorablement vers l’abîme de la guerre. Chaque action de l’un appelle une réaction de l’autre, et nul n’envisage, pour le moment, de ne pas avoirle dernier mot dans l’escalade en cours. Ce qui se passe n’est que la suite logique de la montée des tensions...
Russia and the West (IV): The Caucasus, a Crucible for Eurasian Powers
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 31.12.2015 Analista principal: Eugene ChausovskySummary Where the boundaries of Europe and Asia meet, a relatively new arena has emerged in the competition between Russia and the West: the Caucasus. The region, which comprises Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, rests outside mainland Europe and is surrounded by regional powers. A wave of separatist movements since the...
The Time of the Kurds
Resumen ejecutivo CFR "InfoGuide" Presentation, 13. 09.2015
- The Kurds are one of the world's largest peoples without a state, making up sizable minorities in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
- Their history is marked by marginalization and persecution.
- Yet some Kurds may be on the verge of achieving their century-old quest for independence in a Middle East undergoing...
¿Qué motiva la reapertura de una embajada chilena en Irán?
Columna publicada originalmente en El Líbero (25.11.2015) Juan Salazar Sparks, cientista político, embajador (r) y director ejecutivo de CEPERIDe acuerdo con la información proporcionada por “El Líbero”, para este mes de diciembre estaría prevista la llegada a Teherán de un diplomático chileno -de rango medio- para iniciar los trámites de re-apertura de una misión diplomática en la...
A Path Out of the Middle East Collapse
Opinión The Wall Street Journal, 17.10.2015 Henry A. Kissinger, ex consejero nacional de seguridad y ex secretario de estadoThe debate about whether the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran regarding its nuclear program stabilized the Middle East’s strategic framework had barely begun when the region’s geopolitical framework collapsed. Russia’s unilateral military action in Syria is the...
¿Es este el documento que motivó el acercamiento entre EEUU e Irán?
Reportaje El Confidencial, 22.10,2015 Daniel Iriarte
- Wikileaks publica correos privados del director de la CIA John Brennan, entre ellos una recomendación de 2008 de tender puentes con Teherán.
- Obama parece haberla seguido al pie de la letra
Playing the Long Game on Iran: The Neoconservatives, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Republicans Game the System
Artículo TomDispatch, 23.08.2015 David Bromwich, columnista y profesor de literatura (Yale University)“We’re going to push and push until some larger force makes us stop.” David Addington, the legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, made that declaration to Jack Goldsmith of the Office of Legal Counsel in the months after September 11, 2001. Goldsmith...
Yemen in Meltdown: Domestic and Regional Competitions and the Destruction of Nationhood
Artículo IDSA (Special Feature), 12.08.2015 Talmiz Ahmad, embajador (r) indioIn the third week of July 2015, the port, airport and presidential palace in Aden, the historic city at the mouth of the Red Sea, fell into the hands of forces representing the ousted Yemeni president, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, marking the first success in the counter-assault mounted...