Columna Project-Syndicate, 14.03.2018 Nabil Fahmy, embajador (r), ex ministro de RREE egipcio y profesor (U. Americana de El Cairo)In the face of violent conflicts that are producing widespread death and destruction, the UN and its most powerful members have a responsibility – as stated in the UN Charter – to do whatever they can to restore peace....
Las amenazas de las “democraduras”
Artículo El Líbero, 11.03.2018 Juan Salazar Sparks, embajador (r) y Director Ejecutivo CEPERI
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En los casos de Hungría, Polonia, Turquía, y Venezuela, la causa de muerte de la democracia no fue el derrocamiento de gobiernos electos, sino las acciones de sus propios líderes. Es decir, demagogos populistas con carisma que se encargaron de dañar los controles y...
Putin on the nukes
Columna Brookings, 02.03.2017 Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano del Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence
- Vladimir Putin devoted one-third of his March 1 state of the union speech to new Russian weapons systems, particularly nuclear weapons that could strike the United States. What he said is worrisome, in part because it suggests he remains...
Imperios
Carta OpinionGlobal, 04.03.2018 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y cónsul honorario de Chile en BeirutSir John Glubb also known to us in the Middle East, as Glubb Pasha, is the "produce" of the British Empire, same a s T.E Lawrence and many others who have faithfully served the British Crown and believed in its supremacy. In the attached...
El chavismo y su compleja dependencia de poderes externos antioccidentales
Columna PanAm Post, 23.02.2018 Guillermo Rodríguez González, investigador (Centro de Economía Política-Juan de Mariana) y profesor (IUPG-Venezuela)
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La conexión cubana es la segunda —y la mayor influencia temprana— del chavismo que potenció la influencia cubana en el Foro de Sao Paulo y su nueva táctica continental
En... Filtración: ‘estrategia occidental’ en Siria
Informe Proche&Moyen-Orient.ch, N*166 (19.02.2018) Richard Labévière, editorDans un anglais quelque peu familier mais précis, Benjamin Norman – diplomate en charge du dossier Proche et Moyen Orient à l’ambassade de Grande Bretagne à Washington – rend compte dans un Télégramme diplomatique confidentiel (TD) du 12 janvier 2018 de la première réunion du «Petit groupe américain sur la Syrie» (Etats-Unis,...
New START at 7
Columna Brookimgs, 05.02.2018 Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano del Center for 21st Century Security and IntelligenceFebruary 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...
Assessing the U.S. National Security Strategy
Presentación 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...
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...
Not All Russian Oligarchs Are Alike
Columna The Hill, 06.01.2018 William H. Courtney, embajador (r) y director ejecutivo de la RAND Business Leaders ForumPursuant 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...