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...
Khashoggi’s Murder – At the Complex Intersection of Three Points of Inflection
Columna Strategic-Culture, 23.10.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y director fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)Realists point out that Khashoggi’s alive dismemberment and killing is still just one dead journalist; that such events are not exceptional – and that states seldom change policy for the sake of one death, however gruesome its commission. All true. But it is...
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
If Trump Wants the Ultimate Deal, He Must Not Repeat These Mistakes
Artículo Foreign Policy, 02.10.2018 Dennis B. Ross (ex embajador-académico Washington Institute) y David Makovsky (Washington Institute)
Israeli-Palestinian peace is elusive because all of the parties, including the United States, have made a series of damaging but preventable errors
Twenty-five years ago, the Oslo peace process was born. The process has endured, but it has failed to produce peace between Israelis and...Syria: Bolton Throws Down the Gauntlet
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 25.09.2018 Melkulangara Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioA terrible beauty was born last night with the sequence of dramatic events taking a curious turn, following the shooting down of the Russian plane on September 17 near the coastline of Latakia, Syria, killing fifteen personnel on board the aircraft. After a meticulous investigation by the Russian side,...
Mientras termina el ‘gran nuevo juego’ ¿cuál será la nueva configuración del Oriente Medio?
Carta OpinionGlobal, 26.09.2018 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y cónsul honorario de Chile en BeirutDurante 23 años, desde 1994, he venido conversando con mis amigos y colegas chilenos acerca de la situación en el Medio Oriente como tal. De hecho, a principios del siglo XX, el Medio Oriente, era una entidad bien definida dentro del sistema que los...
Can Russia Survive Her ‘Partnerships’? Has Putin Made A Strategic Miscalculation?
Blog Institute for Political Economy, 19.09.2018 Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, ex Secretario Asistente del Tesoro de Política EconómicaIn an act of intentional deception, Israel used a Russian airplane to cloak an Israeli attack on a Syrian ground position, with the consequence that Syrian air defense missiles downed the Russian airplane with the lost of 15 Russian military lives. In...
Intervención rusa en Siria
Carta OpinionGlobal, 21.09.2018 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y cónsul honorario de Chile en BeirutSoon I shall have the pleasure of sharing with you during my annual conference at the Diplomatic Academy – Andres Bello and at ANEPE, my views about the Middle East developments. For many years I have insisted that M-E conflicts were no more regional,...
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...
Palestinos abandonados
Columna La Opinión de Málaga, 17.09.2018 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de EspañaEl conflicto entre palestinos e israelíes parece haber pasado a un segundo plano ante los múltiples estallidos de violencia que arrasan el Medio Oriente desde que comenzó la Primavera Árabe con su reguero de sangre en Libia, Irak, Egipto, Yemen, y ahora Siria donde el...