Artículo Foreign Policy, 16.10.2015 Amy MackinnonThe wily president of Belarus is secure at home and newly prominent abroad. Here's how he exploited Ukraine's revolutionEven before polling had opened in last Sunday’s presidential elections in Belarus, there was little doubt about who would win. Incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko was duly reelected to his fifth term with over 83...
Is Putin Really as Foolish as We Are?
Artículo Fair Observer, 15.10.2015 John Feffer, autor y co-fundador de Foreing Policy in Focus (Institute for Policy Studies)Putin’s attempt at “shock and awe” in Syria has all the hallmarks of failed US interventions of the past. [caption id="attachment_15358" align="alignnone" width="490"]
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Richard Nixon lied. Surely this is... Who is a Better Strategist: Obama or Putin?
Artículo Foreign Policy, 09.10.2015 Stephen M. Walt, profesor de RRII en la U. de HarvardPitting a former KGB agent against a former community organizer and seeing what happens in SyriaThat’s not quite the right question, of course, because both leaders depend to some degree on intelligence reports and advice from trusted advisors and not just their own...
La guerra de Crimea y la carga de la Brigada Ligera
Isabel Undurraga Matta[1]
Dos hechos de actualidad ameritan la presente columna histórica: por un lado, las guerras religiosas en el Medio Oriente y, por el otro, el conflicto por la península de Crimea en el Mar Negro, recientemente anexada por Rusia. En el primer caso, chiíes y suníes combaten en Irak, Siria y Yemen,...
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Hitler tiene futuro
Opinión El País, 10.10.2015 Lluís BassetsLa llegada de centenares de miles de refugiados a Europa permite certificar la certeza de las teorías de Snyder, autor de 'Tierra negra. El Holocausto como historia y advertencia'Muchos son los historiadores que han indagado sobre el exterminio de los judíos de Europa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero ninguno hasta ahora...
Muslims Memories of West’s Imperialism
Informe especial Consortiumnews, 04.09.2015 William R. Polk, historiador, escritor y ex profesor sobre el Medio Oriente en HarvardAmerican politicians know little about history, so they lash out at people from formerly colonized Third World nations without understanding the scars that the West’s repression and brutality have left on these societies, especially in the Muslim worldOne result of...
A More Assertive German Foreign Policy
Análisis Geopolitical Weekley, 04.02.2014 George Friedman y Marc LanthemannThe Ukrainian crisis is important in itself, but the behavior it has elicited from Germany is perhaps more important. Berlin directly challenged Ukraine's elected president for refusing to tighten relations with the European Union and for mistreating Ukrainians who protested his decision. In challenging President Viktor Yanukovich, Berlin also...
Why the U.S. Feels It Must Contain Russia
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence Eugene Chausovsky, ruso-norteamericano licenciado en RRII (U. de Texas)At the outset of the Cold War, in 1946, U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan sent what became popularly known as the "long telegram" from the embassy in Moscow outlining a policy of containment in dealing with the Soviet Union. The policy was made public in...
De la guerra fría a la guerra comercial
Editorial El Mercurio, 17.08.2015En medio de una baja generalizada del precio de los hidrocarburos, su principal exportación, Rusia está viviendo una escalada de sanciones económicas de la Unión Europea y Estados Unidos, por su actuación en la crisis de Ucrania, que lo obliga a evaluar sus próximas movidas políticas con cuidado. Es cierto que la respuesta de...
How the Army Built the Habsburg Empire
Reseña de libro The National Interest, Vol.138 (July-August 2015) William Anthony Hay, profesor de historia y director del Instituto de Humanidades (Mississippi State University)Richard Bassett: For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619–1918 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)
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The reputation of the Austrian imperial army, unlike its Prussian counterpart, does not command much...