Archivos de Categoría: Rusia

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

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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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Kremlin Untruths Boomerang

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rand.org, 04.12.2016
William Courtney, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano (RAND Corp.)
The main sources of strain in Moscow's ties with the West are actions, such as Russia's aggression in Ukraine. But untruths, such as Moscow's repeated denials of interference in the 2016 U.S. election, add fuel to the fire. They can provoke stronger...
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How Ukraine Views Russia and the West

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Ambassadors Review, (Fall 2017)
Steven K. Pifer, ex embajador norteamericano en Ucrania y académico (Brookings Institution)
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...
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Vladimir Putin Isn’t as Russian as He Seems

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Foreign Policy, 06.12.2017
John Sipher, analista de National Security y ex agente de la CIA
  • The Russian president cloaks himself in nationalism, but that’s not where his heart is
[caption id="attachment_25390" align="alignleft" width="399"] Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 17, 2015. (Sergei Ilnitsky/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] At a recent...
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The Death of the INF Treaty Could Signal a U.S.-Russia Missile Race

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The National Interest, 06.12.2017
Steven K. Pifer, embajador (r) y académico norteamericano del Brookings Arms Control and
Nonproliferation Initiative
The Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty marks its thirtieth anniversary on December 8. That could be one of its last. Russia has violated the treaty by deploying a prohibited ground-launched cruise missile. Congress has set the Department of Defense...
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