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Russia and the West (II): Ukraine Caught Between East and West

Russia and the West (II): Ukraine Caught Between East and West
Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 29.12.2015
Analista principal: Eugene Chausovsky
Summary Russia's desire for influence in Ukraine is as old as the Russian state itself. It has fought for centuries to protect its stake in the Eastern European nation from the encroachment of the West, often turning to natural gas cutoffs or outright military intervention to do so. Since the end...
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Rusia no entierra a Stalin

Opinión
El Mundo, 27.12.2015
Xavier Colás
  • A los rusos les sigue costando expresar un punto de vista sobre alguien que fue en buena medida el padre del país
"Mi abuela tiene un retrato de Stalin en su dormitorio. No es comunista, de hecho sabe que fue un régimen criminal. Pero para ella es algo íntimo y personal, mientras que para mí...
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‘Turquía es quien le compra el petróleo al ISIS’: Europa no se fía de Erdogan

Reportaje
El Confidencial, 17.12.2015
Alexandre Mato
  • La UE necesita la cooperación de Ankara en asuntos como la crisis de refugiados, pero no confía en su buena voluntad.
  • Bruselas se resiste a desembolsar los 3.000 millones de euros prometidos
"Nadie se fía de Turquía". La afirmación pertenece a un alto diplomático europeo, y fue pronunciada hace apenas unos días ante...
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Portrait of a Backstabbing Pasha

Opinión
Information Clearing House, 15.12.2015
James Petras,  escritor y profesor de sociología en la Binghamton University
Erdoğan began his ascent to power as a social reformer in opposition to the power elite; he was a rabble-rouser for popular Islam and social welfare.  Once he takes political power he enriches his family and the business elite and purges adversaries...
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Perils of Cornering Russia

Reseña de libros:
 -“Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West’s Fault”
John Mearsheimer (Foreign Affairs Sep/Oct 2014)
-"Faulty Powers"
 Michael McFaul, Stephen Sestanovich, y John Mearsheimer (Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 2014)
American Review, (junio 2015)
Susan Eisenhower
  • The debate over the Russia–Ukraine crisis has its genesis in the arguments over NATO expansion in the 1990s
Nothing underscores the peculiarities of the debate over...
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The good and bad in Ukraine

Opinión
Kyiv Post, 04.12.2015
Timothy Garton Ash
Summary view: The macro economy has stabilised, helped by an IMF programme which seems to be working, plus the valiant efforts of the dream team reform crew. This newfound stability and potential for upside surprises to growth are now seriously under threat by populist forces in parliament and by foot- dragging by...
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The Czar vs the Sultan

Opinión
Foreign Policy, 25.11.2015
Julia Ioffe, ex editora del New Republican, corresponsal extranjera y columnista
  • Putin and Erdogan see themselves as heirs to proud empires. But fighter jets and tough talk can’t mask imperial decline.
Before Crimea was Russian, or Ukrainian, or even Soviet, it was Turkish. Well, Ottoman. And Russia had already annexed Crimea once before 2014, long...
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Magical Thinking about ISIS

Magical Thinking about ISIS
Artículo
London Review of Books, Vol.37 (23) 03.12.2015
Adam Shatz, editor y columnista
Before the Lebanese civil war, Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. Today, Paris looks more and more like the Beirut of Western Europe, a city of incendiary ethnic tension, hostage-taking and suicide bombs. Parisians have returned to the streets, and to their...
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A Path Out of the Middle East Collapse

Opinión
The Wall Street Journal, 17.10.2015
Henry A. Kissinger, ex consejero nacional de seguridad y ex secretario de estado
The debate about whether the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran regarding its nuclear program stabilized the Middle East’s strategic framework had barely begun when the region’s geopolitical framework collapsed. Russia’s unilateral military action in Syria is the...
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