Columna Infobae, 23.06.2019 Roberto García Moritán, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE argentinoLa escalada de tensión con Irán se ha traducido en riesgos concretos para la seguridad de Medio Oriente, con un escenario prebélico. La expansión de la presencia iraní en la región y el programa militar nuclear están en el centro de la controversia. Las...
An Israeli Double-Feature
Carta OpinionGlobal, 09.06.2019 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y Cónsul honorario de Chile en Beirut
While the western allies of WW2 were commemorating D Day (in absence of Russia that had a major role in ending the German Nazi adventure), another dramatic event concerning US service men was once again eluded, waking us up...
Iran: Preparing the ‘Battle Space’
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 13.05.2019 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)Bernard Lewis, a British-American historian of the Middle East, has been formidably influential in America – his policy ideas have towered over Presidents, policy-makers and think-tanks, and they still do. Though he died last year, his baleful views still shape America’s thinking about...
Is There a Path Out of Ratcheting Mid-East and Geo-Strategic Tensions?
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 06.05.2019 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)The faultline between Turkey and the Gulf States – with the US and Israel standing in the wings – has just become quite acute. The pressures on Erdogan are mounting. He is a street-fighter and likely to react with his fists. Iran –...
Los enemigos de Israel: puede que Trump sea uno de ellos
Columna El Confidencial, 09.04.2019 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España
- Después de Irán y los palestinos, Trump puede ser el tercer enemigo. Con su apoyo a la soberanía sobre los Altos del Golán anima a los extremistas a anexionarse también Cisjordania
Will Trump’s Hawks Dare to Risk Israel?
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 11.03.2019 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)
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...
Did Camp David Doom the Palestinians?
Reseña de libro Foreign Policy, 19.10.2018 Dennis B. Ross, embajador (r), ex enviado norteamericano al Medio Oriente y consejero del Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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A new diplomatic history argues that the United States, Egypt, and Israel prevented a Palestinian state from emerging. But leaders such as Yasser Arafat bear much of the blame
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...