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
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 UniversityErdoğan 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...
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
The good and bad in Ukraine
Opinión Kyiv Post, 04.12.2015 Timothy Garton AshSummary 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...
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.
Magical Thinking about ISIS
Artículo London Review of Books, Vol.37 (23) 03.12.2015 Adam Shatz, editor y columnistaBefore 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...
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 estadoThe 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...
De Bosnia a Ucrania: la necesidad de fortalecer la presencia militar europea
Matías Salazar H.*
Europa no puede continuar dándose el lujo de no considerar, dentro de sus prioridades, la restauración de un sistema de defensa común, a raíz de los cambios estructurales de poder en el sistema mundial, en particular el Powerpolitics (geopolítica neo-imperialista) que muestra la Rusia de Putin en Ucrania.
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Ukraine and Europe: What Shoud be Done?
Artículo New York Review of Books, Vol.62 (15) 08.10.2015 George SorosBecause of the structural defects of the euro, the European authorities have had to become masters of the art of muddling through one crisis after another. This practice is popularly known as kicking the can down the road although it would be more accurate to describe it...
Five Options for the U.S. in Syria
Blog Rand Corporation, 21.10.2015 Brian Michael Jenkins, consejero del presidente de la RAND Corporation
- Syrian President al-Assad made a surprise visit to Moscow on October 20, 2015, to thank Russian President Putin for launching air strikes against Islamist militants in Syria