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Con la caída de la Unión Soviética y el término de la Guerra Fría se pensó, erróneamente, que los argumentos neoconservadores en Washington caducarían. Con posterioridad, y tras ser sentenciados como incitadores de la costosa y duradera guerra en Irak, pareció que perderían su influencia en la formulación de la política exterior de...
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A Mideast Games of Thrones
Opinión Information Clearing House, 21.07.2015 Patrick J. Buchanan, escritor y columnista conservador norteamericanoAs President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is compared to Richard Nixon’s opening to China, Bibi Netanyahu must know how Chiang Kai-shek felt as he watched his old friend Nixon toasting Mao in Peking. The Iran nuclear deal is not on the same geostrategic level. Yet...
Acuerdo nuclear con Irán
Blog La Tercera, 20.07.2015 Juan Francisco Coloane, sociólogo y analista internacionalEl 14 de julio pasado, después de dos años de negociaciones, el grupo de potencias denominado Grupo 5 + 1, formado por China, Estados Unidos, Francia, Reino Unido y Alemania ha logrado lo que décadas de tensión y desestabilización colateral no habían logrado. Consiste en un acuerdo...
Peace Operations in Africa
Artículo CFR Backgrounder, 15.05.2015 Danielle RenwickIntroduction More than one hundred thousand uniformed peacekeepers were deployed in Africa in early 2015, twice as many as a decade before. Peacekeepers have deployed to Somalia, the western Sudanese region of Darfur, South Sudan, and Mali, to name a few countries where civil wars and rebellions have claimed civilian lives and threatened...
A Solution for Syria
Análisis OpenDemocracy, 16.07.2015 Bassma Kodmani, director ejecutivo de Arab Reform InitiativeSyria is central to the security and future of the Middle East, but conditions for a resolution of the Syrian conflict through a political solution do not exist. An excerpt from a NOREF expert analysis. Creating the conditions for a political solution Syria is known to Arabs as the heart...
Towards a Rational U.S. Strategy (Part II)
Artículo Consortiumnews, 01.07.2015 William R. Polk, consultor en política exterior y profesor de HarvardThe ultimate madness of today’s U.S. foreign policy is Official Washington’s eager embrace of a new Cold War against Russia with the potential for nuclear annihilation. A rational strategy would seek alternatives to this return to big-power confrontation. In Part One, I dealt at length with America’s relationship with...
Towards a Rational U.S. Strategy (Part I)
Artículo Consortiumnews, 30.06.2015 William R. Polk, consejero en política exterior, escritor y profesor en HarvardCurrent U.S. foreign policy is driven by neoconservative ideologues and tough-talking “liberal interventionists” who spread chaos and death around the world while failing to serve real American interests. It’s time for a fundamental rethinking Judaism, Christianity and Islam have proclaimed that humankind faces the...
The Koreas, Bastion of Cold War Realism
Artículo The Diplomat, 25.06.2015 Morgan Potts, editor del British Association for Korean StudiesA reluctant but pragmatic defense of neorealism in Northeast Asia. Nuclear crises, propaganda and espionage, a clash of ideologies – the Korean peninsula is the only place in the world where the Cold War lingers. This persistence is the result of the 1953 Armistice Agreement and...
Russia’s Role in Iran: Another Dimension of the Pivot to the East
Artículo European Energy Review, 24.06.2015 Irina MironovaRussia is experiencing series of problems in its relations with the West; political contradictions, economic troubles exacerbated by the sanctions; diminishing demand for Russia’s energy recourse supplies in traditional markets are among reasons which justified Russia’s ‘pivot to Asia’. In this context, we are often discussing the role of growing economies...
Who Lost Iraq?
Entrevista a funcionarios y académicos estadounidenses Politico Magazine, julio/agosto 2015 Michael CrowleyDid George W. Bush create the Islamic State? Did Barack Obama? We asked the insiders to tell us who’s to blame. For a brief, happy—and misguided—moment, most Americans stopped thinking about Iraq. After withdrawing the last U.S. troops in 2011, President Barack Obama declared the country “sovereign,...