Blog Brookings Institution, 06.09.2018 Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y especialista norteamericano en desarme (Brookings)President Trump has repeatedly made clear his desire to improve the troubled U.S.-Russia relationship. There is a straightforward proposal that he could make that would do so, one to which President Putin would agree and which would enhance U.S. security: Extend the 2010...
Turkey’s damage-control campaign in Idlib
Blog Middle East Institute, 04.09.2018 Robert S. Ford, embajador (r) e investigador norteamericano (MEI)The presidents of Russia, Iran, and Turkey will meet on Friday, Sept. 7, in Tehran to discuss agreed-upon paths forward in the Syrian war. The Turkish government hopes to forestall a massive Syrian government assault on the crowded opposition-held province of Idlib. Ankara is...
India, Russia and the Post-American Century
Artículo Strategic-Culture.org, 04.09.2018 Melkulangara Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático, analista y colaborador de diarios indiosIndia’s impending purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system has come to be the leitmotif of the “2+2” dialogue of the foreign and defence ministers of India and the United States due to take place in New Delhi on September 6. However, the issue here...
Is a ‘Suez’ Event Being Prepared for Syria?
Artículo Strategic-Culture.org, 01.09.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y director-fundador de Conflcts Forum (Beirut)So, the metamorphosis is done. President Trump has finally, fully, shed his 2016 Campaign ‘skin’ of loosely imagining a grand foreign policy bargain that could be the foundation for “WORLD PEACE, nothing less!” as Trump tweeted when imposing sanctions on Iran. We wrote, on 3...
Walking a Fine Line on Russian Sanctions
Columna The RAND Blog, 22.08.2018 William H. Courtney, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano de la RANDThe United States and its allies are increasingly frustrated over malign activities by Russia. Moscow wages war in Ukraine, abets brutality in Syria, interferes in elections, and poisons opponents. In response, Washington has imposed sanctions and closed Russian consulates in San Francisco and...
Putin Overplays His Hand
Columna Project-Syndicate, 17.08.2018 Christopher R. Hill, embajador (r), ex secretario de estado asistente para Asia y profesor de Práctica Diplomática (U. de Denver)This summer, the governments of Greece and the Republic of Macedonia reached an agreement that would finally put to rest a decades-long diplomatic dispute over Macedonia's name. By reportedly attempting to derail the rapprochement, the Kremlin...
Rusia recupera hegemonía
Carta El Mercurio, 17.08.2018 Jaime Lagos Erazo, abogado y embajador (r)Desde la desintegración de la ex Unión Soviética, la actual Rusia, bajo su nuevo zar, Vladimir Putin, paulatinamente ha estado reconstruyendo ese antiguo Imperio. Con este designio, una vez asegurada una mayor presencia en el Ártico, la política expansionista rusa se dirigió hacia el sur, para asegurar una...
Here’s how Russia will try to interfere in the 2018 elections
Columna Fox News, 14.08.2018 William H. Courtney, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano (RAND)
In the face of a bipartisan congressional effort to expand sanctions against Russia, the Trump administration is escalating pressure on the Kremlin over its interference in U.S. political life
The State Department announced last week that it had called in Russia’s top diplomat in Washington and conveyed that the...Finland and the Bear
Artículo Foreign Policy, 31.07.2018 Anna Nemtsova, corresponsal de Newsweek en Moscú
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Russian meddling is a rising concern in Helsinki
A demonstrator wears a mask bearing a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin as protesters gather for a march to defend human rights, freedom of speech, and democracy... De Pedro el Grande a Putin: cinco ejes históricos de la política exterior rusa
Artículo Esglobal, 21.03.2017 Iván Giménez Chueca
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El rol de Rusia en la escena internacional desde la anexión de Crimea y la guerra en Ucrania no es algo plenamente novedoso. La política exterior del Kremlin se guía por unas constantes que se remontan a principios del siglo XVIII cuando el zar Pedro I, el Grande (que gobernó entre 1682...