Columna Indian Punchline, 13.01.2020 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe Cold-War hypothesis that the Soviet Union was hoping to “wet its toes” in the Indian Ocean was in reality an extension of the geopolitical construct known as the “Anglo-Russian Question” that was written about by Lord Curzon, onetime viceroy of British India (1899-1905). We now know...
Putin’s Russia, twenty years on
Columna Indian Punchline, 01.01.2020 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioWhen I left Moscow after completing my second assignment in the Embassy at the end of 1989, I never imagined that I was leaving the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the last time. My next visit to Moscow was in 1993 when I saw an...
Turquía se complica la vida
Columna El Confidencial, 01.01.20120 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España
Erdogan debe pensar que su turno ha llegado y ha pasado a la ofensiva de una forma un tanto desordenada, pero que no deja dudas sobre su voluntad de tener un papel importante
El haber sido un imperio pero ya no serlo le complica a uno la vida porque...Avoiding an Ominous Arms Race
Artículo Cairo Review of Global Affairs, N*35 (Otoño 2019) Nabil Fahmy, embajador (r), ex ministro de RREE y decano de la Escuela de Asuntos Globales (U.Americana - El Cairo)
Begin by holding negotiations for a WMD-free zone to which Israel, Iran, and all Arab states are party
In 2020, there will be two anniversaries which relate to the...Amargo aniversario
Columna La Opinión de Málaga, 10.12.2019 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España y columnista
La OTAN cumple también hoy un papel importante como foro de diálogo trasatlántico cuando crecen los problemas comerciales
Mientras la Cumbre del Clima de Madrid nos alerta de la implacable subida de las temperaturas globales, la OTAN ha celebrado su 70 aniversario en...Why care about Ukraine and the Budapest Memorandum
Blog Brookings, 05.12.2019 Steven K. Pifer, economista (Stanford), embajador (r) y académico norteamericano (Brookings)Since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, the United States has provided Ukraine with $3 billion in reform and military assistance and $3 billion in loan guarantees. U.S. troops in western Ukraine train their Ukrainian colleagues. Washington, in concert with the European Union, has...
Is NATO Brain Dead?
Blog RAND Corporation, 03.12.2019 James Dobbins, embajador (r), ex representante especial para Afghanistan y Pakistan y académico norteamericano (RAND Corporation)French President Emmanuel Macron recently declared that “we are experiencing the brain death of NATO.” He made this remark in support of longstanding French policy favoring a more united Europe less dependent for its security on American leadership and protection. Macron's...
El futuro de la OTAN
Columna Infobae, 09.12.2019 Roberto García Moritán, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE argentinoLa Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN), que ha duplicado su tamaño desde 1949 y ampliado la frontera a 1600 kilómetros de Moscú, se encuentra en la encrucijada de definir la orientación futura. A 70 años de su constitución y 28 de la desaparición...
Russia-Ukraine relations take leap of faith
Columna Indian Punchline, 16.11.2019 M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indioThe relationship of the famous Ukrainian oligarch and billionaire Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky lends itself to various interpretations. Both Kolomoyskyi and Zelensky (rather, his spokesperson Iuliia Mendel) are in denial mode about their past business association but the impression lingers that the oligarch...
Un regalo para Putin
Columna El Confidencial, 06.11.2019 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España