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To complain so candidly while still in office is unusual, but Obama inadvertently highlights what historians may come to see as his major flaw in international affairs Barack Obama’s candidly critical public remarks about David Cameron’s foreign policy failings are unusual, given that the US president is still in office and presumably wants to maintain [...]
La identidad estratégica de Brasil: política de defensa para un jugador global Marina Vitelli 11536 words 1 September 2015 Colombia Internacional CLMBINT 141-169 Issue 85; ISSN:01215612 Spanish Copyright © 2015 Colombia Internacional. ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. El artículo analiza la actual política de defensa brasileña rastreando ideas claves del pensamiento militar [...]
Opinión Cabeza fría para la crisis de Ucrania 393 words 4 March 2014 El Periódico Extremadura PDEXTM Spanish Grupo Zeta La demostración de fuerza de Vladimir Putin en Crimea es un desafío en toda regla a Kiev y a quienes han apoyado la revuelta del Maidán, es decir, a Occidente. Si algo tiene claro el [...]
Host(s): DON MARTIN DON MARTIN: Welcome back. Well the Conservatives push hard to pass a motion condemning ISIS for committing a genocide of their enemies in Iraq and Syria. The Liberals say that’s something international authorities should declare. Well here’s the clashing political view on whether Canada should be doing this. Here’s interim Conservative leader Rona [...]
BRICS and SCO International Media Centre Let’s start with the Kafkaesque internal turmoil. The coup against President Dilma Rousseff remains an unrivalled media theatre/political tragicomedy gift that keeps on giving. It also doubles as a case of information war converted into a strategic tool of political control. A succession of appalling audio leaks has revealed that key [...]
Preparing to go to war in 2011, President Obama laid out a case for involvement in the mounting crisis in Libya. Without strong Western action, he told Americans, the conflict in Libya would trigger a humanitarian crisis and destabilize a fragile region. Most acutely, the president’s senior aides worried that failing to launch military action [...]
Srinagar, June 1 — Sitting in his presidential palace in 1991, Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein and his Culture Minister Hamad Hammadi drafted a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). Hussein and Hammadi hoped that the U.S.S.R. would help save Iraq from the West’s barrage. Hammadi, who understood the [...]
[...]Menon writes, “Much of the world fears and suspects that the effort to legitimate humanitarian intervention by means of supposedly universal norms is designed to camouflage the pursuit of power by the powerful.” Unfortunately, as Menon explains, the hypocrisy around humanitarianism has perhaps even more dire consequences when interventions are actually launched. Because people are [...]
Politics Entre el engaño y la ética El Comercio 556 words 25 September 2013 El Comercio COMCIP Spanish Copyright 2013 NoticiasFinancieras. All Rights Reserved. Por Harry Belevan. Escritor El dilema que la comunidad internacional enfrenta estos días en Siria está entre quienes ansían ver los tentáculos del imperialismo occidental detrás de algún castigo proporcional al [...]
Opinión Tiempos de crispación y antagonismo POR JUAN GABRIEL TOKATLIAN 1345 words 5 August 2014 El País – Nacional PAISN CT (Cataluña) 29 Spanish (c) Copyright DIARIO EL PAIS, S.L. http://www.elpais.es. Si hasta los noventa la globalización se percibía como sinónimo de prosperidad, por muchos de sus logros y promesas, en el siglo XXI está [...]