Archivos de Categoría: Rusia

New START at 7

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Brookimgs, 05.02.2018
Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano del Center for 21st Century Security and
Intelligence
February 5 marks the seventh anniversary of the entry into force of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) as well as the day on which the treaty’s central limits take full effect. U.S. and Russian implementation of New...
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Assessing the U.S. National Security Strategy

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Brookings Testimonies, 25.01.2018
Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano (Center for 21st Century Security and
Intelligence-Center on the United States and Europe)
Thank you for the invitation to join with Managing Director Hrda and Charge Shub in this exchange of views on the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy.  Let me note that I am a nonresident...
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Order from Chaos: Arms and the men

Presentación
Brookings Testimonies, 16.01.2018
Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano (Center for 21st Century Security and
Intelligence-Center on the United States and Europe)
Nuclear arms control has been a central feature of the relationship between Washington and Moscow for some 50 years, but the nuclear arms control regime appears increasingly fragile. Several factors are placing the regime...
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Not All Russian Oligarchs Are Alike

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The Hill, 06.01.2018 
William H. Courtney, embajador (r) y director ejecutivo de la RAND Business Leaders Forum
Pursuant to a sweeping U.S. sanctions law (PDF) enacted last August, this year the Secretary of the Treasury must submit a report to Congress listing the main “oligarchs” in Russia, judged by their closeness to the “regime” and net worth. Inclusion in this...
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Un mundo sin los Estados Unidos

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El Líbero, 22.01.2018
Juan Salazar Sparks, embajador (r) y director ejecutivo de CEPERI
[caption id="attachment_26937" align="alignleft" width="499"] Opera Mundi[/caption] Donald Trump, el Presidente más irracional en la historia moderna de los Estados Unidos, no sólo está polarizando a los norteamericanos y arruinando...
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Los planes de Trump para Siria

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OpinionGlobal, 20.01.2018
Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y cónsul honorario de Chile en Beirut
While commemorating the first year of President Trump’s mandate and listening to various comments about his very unconventional policies, at home and worldwide, the Middle East has got its share, a harsh and bloody one. If a pseudo consensus between the USA and Iran...
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How Ukraine Views Russia and the West

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Ambassadors Review, Fall 2017
Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano
Following the Soviet Union’s collapse, Ukraine and Russia maintained relations that at times were testy, but their differences largely appeared manageable. That changed in 2014, when the Kremlin used military force to seize Crimea and then supported armed separatism in the eastern Ukrainian region of...
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The Year Non-Western Powers Rewrote the Rules at the United Nations

Artículo
World Politics Review, 19.12.2017
Richard Gowan, académico (European Council on Foreign Relations-NYU’s Center on International Cooperation) y profesor (Columbia University)
  • One year ago, the United Nations appeared to be poised between a moment of renewal and a total meltdown
[caption id="attachment_26150" align="alignleft" width="401"] Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President...
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Rusia y el zar

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El Mercurio, 18.12.2017
Tamara Avetikian
Si no pasa algo extremadamente inesperado, tendremos a Vladimir Putin gobernando Rusia otros seis años. Así de simple. No tiene un rival de verdad. El único que pudo hacerle la competencia, Alexander Navalny, está inhabilitado por secretaría. La verdad es que con su popularidad, sobre el 70 por ciento, es difícil que alguien...
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The Middle East in the New World Disorder

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Information Clearing House, 14.12.2017
Chas W. Freeman, embajador (r) norteamericano, presidente de Projects International Inc y escritor
Not so long ago, Americans thought we understood the Middle East, that region where the African, Asian, and European worlds collide.  When the Ottoman Empire disintegrated in World War I, the area became a European sphere of influence with imperial British,...
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