Carta OpinionGlobal, 21.09.2018 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y cónsul honorario de Chile en BeirutSoon I shall have the pleasure of sharing with you during my annual conference at the Diplomatic Academy – Andres Bello and at ANEPE, my views about the Middle East developments. For many years I have insisted that M-E conflicts were no more regional,...
US-Indian Relations: Trump Gets a Unique Partner for America First
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 18.09.2018 Melkulangara Bhadrkumar, ex diplomático indio y colaborador de varios diarios de su paísThe inaugural meeting of the foreign and defence ministers of India and the United States in a new “2+2” format on September 6 in New Delhi assumed added significance as an attempt by the Trump administration to translate its Indo-Pacific vision outlined...
Two Major Middle East Projects Are Afoot & Gaining Mass; They May Collide Before Long
Artículo Strategic-Culture, 18.09.2018 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y fundador del Conflicts Forum de BeirutOut from the ashes of the two mega projects of this expiring decade – i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) attempted Mideast take-over, and, contrarily, the Gulf project to rupture the MB - and to reconstitute hereditary, tribal absolutism (the ‘Arab System’) - two...
Nilo de agua o de sangre
Columna La Opinión de Málaga, 10.09.2018 Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de EspañaEl llamado Cuerno de África, en el límite Del Mar Rojo, el golfo de Aden y el Océano Índico, es objeto de un renovado interés internacional que incide sobre los problemas internos de una región ya de por sí conflictiva y en la que en...
Want to improve relations with Russia? Here’s a START
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...