Análisis Startfor Global Intelligence, 24.03.2016After nearly 15 years, the Taliban show no signs of slowing their insurgency in Afghanistan. Hopes that the group would participate in peace talks were recently dashed when it announced it would not do so, even though a small rival Islamist group, Hizb-i-Islami, agreed to be included. Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the...
Felipe González juega a la ruleta rusa y gana: treinta años del referéndum de la OTAN
Opinión Expansión, 08.03.2016 Tomás López MoralesEl sábado 12 de marzo se cumplen 30 años del referéndum de la OTAN, en el que el entonces presidente del Gobierno tuvo que expiar sus pecados de juventud jugándose su futuro político con un plebiscito en el que se impuso por la mínima. "Tú decir que si te votan, tú sacarnos de...
Eastern Europe: Where Two Civilizations Collide
Análisis Global Affairs, 24.02.2016 Ian MorrisIn his insightful Feb. 20 Global Affairs column, "Why the West Should Pay More Attention to Moldova," Steve Hall asked: "Why risk further conflict — perhaps armed conflict — with Russia over a place most Americans and many Europeans cannot locate on a map?" As if on cue, February also saw the publication...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Artículo CFR Backgrounder, 17.02.2016 Jonathan Masters, segundo editor
Introduction
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a Cold War cornerstone of transatlantic security, has significantly recast its role in the past twenty years. Founded in 1949 as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, NATO has evolved to confront threats ranging from piracy off the Horn of Africa to human trafficking in the...Bienvenidos al fin de una era: el error crítico que ha cometido EEUU
Opinión El Confidencial, 26.01.2016 Marcos Díaz, experto en diplomacia, relaciones internacionales y política exterior
- EEUU ya no tiene la capacidad de gobernar el mundo en solitario sin atender las condiciones exigidas por el resto de las potencias. Simple y llanamente, el modelo estratégico se ha derrumbado
Russia and the West (I): On the Origins of a Conflict
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 28.12.2015 Analista principal: Eugene ChausovskySummary
- This is the first installment of a five-part series that explores the past, present and future of the confrontation between Russia and the West on the Eurasian landmass.
Perils of Cornering Russia
Reseña de libros: -“Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West’s Fault” John Mearsheimer (Foreign Affairs Sep/Oct 2014) -"Faulty Powers" Michael McFaul, Stephen Sestanovich, y John Mearsheimer (Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 2014) American Review, (junio 2015) Susan Eisenhower
- The debate over the Russia–Ukraine crisis has its genesis in the arguments over NATO expansion in the 1990s
A Gun Smuggler’s Lamment
Reportaje Foreign Policy, 05.10.2015 Elizabeth Dickinson, periodista con estudios africanos de la U. de YalePerched in a seaside villa in eastern Tunisia, Osama Kubbar had anxiously waited for days for the final news about his guns. It was May 2011, five months into the Arab Spring, and Kubbar, a Libyan smuggler, was remotely tracking the slow movements...
A More Assertive German Foreign Policy
Análisis Geopolitical Weekley, 04.02.2014 George Friedman y Marc LanthemannThe Ukrainian crisis is important in itself, but the behavior it has elicited from Germany is perhaps more important. Berlin directly challenged Ukraine's elected president for refusing to tighten relations with the European Union and for mistreating Ukrainians who protested his decision. In challenging President Viktor Yanukovich, Berlin also...
Why the U.S. Feels It Must Contain Russia
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence Eugene Chausovsky, ruso-norteamericano licenciado en RRII (U. de Texas)At the outset of the Cold War, in 1946, U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan sent what became popularly known as the "long telegram" from the embassy in Moscow outlining a policy of containment in dealing with the Soviet Union. The policy was made public in...