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Russia and the West (V): Central Asia, a Different Kind of Threat

Russia and the West (V): Central Asia, a Different Kind of Threat
Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 01.01.2016
Analista principal: Eugene Chausovsky
Summary Much like the Caucasus, Central Asia serves as a relatively new but no less important staging ground for the ongoing competition between Russia and the West. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the region has been somewhat of a melange of indecision and opportunism: Kazakhstan has stayed close...
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Military to Military

Artículo
London Review of Books, Vol. 38 (1) 2016
Seymour M. Hersh
  • US intelligence sharing in the Syrian war
Barack Obama’s repeated insistence that Bashar al-Assad must leave office – and that there are ‘moderate’ rebel groups in Syria capable of defeating him – has in recent years provoked quiet dissent, and even overt opposition, among some of the most...
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How China Sees Russia: Beijing and Moscow Are Close, but Not Allies

Artículo
Foreign Affairs, Vol.95 (1) enero/febrero 201
Fu Ying, presidente de la Comisión de RREE del Congreso Popular del PCCH
At a time when Russian relations with the United States and western European countries are growing cold, the relatively warm ties between China and Russia have attracted renewed interest. Scholars and journalists in the West find themselves debating...
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Merkel, Putin, Irak y la Agenda 2010: vida y milagros del ex canciller Gerhard Schröder

Opinión
El Confidencial, 31.12.2015
Antonio Martínez
  • Una biografía sobre Gerhard Schröder arroja luz sobre la personalidad contradictoria y arrolladora de un político fundamental para la Alemania reunificada
Egocéntrico pero simpático. Animal político aunque cercano. Pragmático y populista. Audaz, polémico y mediático. Gerhard Schröder, el canciller socialdemócrata que gobernó Alemania con el apoyo de Los Verdes entre 1998 y 2005,...
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Russia and the West (I): On the Origins of a Conflict

Russia and the West (I): On the Origins of a Conflict
Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 28.12.2015
Analista principal: Eugene Chausovsky
Summary
  • This is the first installment of a five-part series that explores the past, present and future of the confrontation between Russia and the West on the Eurasian landmass.
Since its emergence as an organized state, Russia has collided with the West. For over a millennium, the two have clashed economically, politically...
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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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