Archivo categoría «Orden Mundial»
By Caroline Moorehead, the author of the book A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Resistance in Occupied France (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 27/11/11):
On Jan. 24, 1943, 230 French women who had been arrested for resistance activities were put on a train at Compiegne, outside Paris, and sent to Auschwitz. The youngest had just celebrated her 17th birthday; the oldest was 67. They were teachers and seamstresses, students and farmers’ wives; there was a doctor, a dentist and several editors and chemists. They were to be a lesson to other would-be troublemakers.
The women were … Seguir leyendo
By Dominique Moisi, author of The Geopolitics of Emotion (Project Syndicate, 15/11/11):
At “ground zero” in lower Manhattan, two empty spaces will be filled by water cascades, memorializing in a serene and respectful way the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Next to them, a powerful tower, designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind and nearly completed, rises vigorously into the sky, a symbol of the triumph of life over the forces of death. One word comes to mind to characterize the impression made by this place, the site of an unprecedented crime: resilience.
In a building … Seguir leyendo
By Richard N. Haass, a former director of policy planning in the US State Department and President of the Council on Foreign Relations (Project Syndicate, 14/11/11):
Some 40 years ago, when I entered Oxford University as a graduate student, I declared my interest in the Middle East. I was told that this part of the world came under the rubric of “Oriental Studies,” and that I would be assigned an appropriate professor. But when I arrived for my first meeting at the professor’s office, his bookshelves were lined with volumes bearing Chinese characters. He was a specialist in what … Seguir leyendo
Por Jorge Sampaio, alto representante de las Naciones Unidas para la Alianza de Civilizaciones (EL PAÍS, 10/11/11):
El pasado mes de julio se cumplió el sexto aniversario del lanzamiento formal de la Alianza de Civilizaciones por el secretario general Kofi Annan y, hace apenas un mes, el séptimo desde que aquella propuesta fue presentada por el presidente del Gobierno de España ante la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas. Entre estas dos fechas, el 21 de septiembre de 2004 y el 14 de julio de 2005, esta novedosa iniciativa, fortalecida entre tanto por el copatrocinio del primer ministro turco, … Seguir leyendo
By Walter C. Clemens Jr., a professor of political science at Boston University and the author of Getting to Yes in Korea (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 05/11/11):
How should the United States and its allies deal with evil regimes that abuse their own people and threaten world order?
During the cold war, two Soviet Nobel Prize winners disagreed on whether Western governments should treat Moscow as a viable partner in negotiations to control the nuclear arms race.
The author and Gulag survivor Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, said no, putting human rights first; the nuclear physicist Andrei D. Sakharov said yes, because … Seguir leyendo
Por Paul Kennedy, director de Estudios sobre Seguridad Internacional en la Universidad de Yale y ocupa la cátedra Dilworth de Historia. © 2011, Tribune Media Services, INC Traducción de María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (EL PAÍS, 03/11/11):
Un parteaguas es una línea divisoria de aguas, un límite entre dos zonas en las que las aguas caen en direcciones opuestas. La palabra puede emplearse también para describir un fenómeno histórico y político: un hito, un momento trascendental, el instante en el que las actividades y circunstancias humanas atraviesan la línea divisoria que separa una época de la siguiente. Mientras ocurre, son … Seguir leyendo
By Daniel Swift, the author of the memoir Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot’s War (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/11/11):
A hundred years ago today, an Italian airman named Giulio Gavotti dropped three hand grenades out of his monoplane onto a camp of Arab and Turkish troops at Ain Zara, just east of Tripoli, during the Italian-Turkish War. It was the world’s first aerial bombardment. Each grenade weighed three pounds, and it is likely that no one was hurt. “I came back really pleased with the result,” Lieutenant Gavotti wrote to his father. Italian newspapers raved about … Seguir leyendo
By Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/11/11):
As the world population clock ticks past 7 billion, alarm bells are ringing. The gathering force of public protests is the popular expression of an obvious fact: that growing economic uncertainty, market volatility and mounting inequality have reached a point of crisis.
Too many people are living in fear. They are discouraged by uncertainty and angry at their diminished prospects. Around kitchen tables and in public squares, they are asking: who will deliver for my family and my community? In these difficult times, the biggest … Seguir leyendo
By David Rieff, a New York-based journalist. He is the author of eight books and is currently completing a ninth about the global food crisis (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 15/10/11):
If the word crisis is vastly overused, to speak of a global food crisis is, if anything, an understatement.
The first signs of trouble appeared in 2000, when global grain stocks declined for the first time in several decades, but it was not until the spring of 2007 that the full gravity of what was occurring became clear. During that year, the prices of the principal food staples — … Seguir leyendo
Por Mijail Gorbachev, ex Presidente de la URSS, fundó la Cruz Verde Internacional, organización no gubernamental independiente y sin ánimo de lucro dedicada a abordar los problemas mundiales relacionados con la seguridad, la erradicación de la pobreza y la degradación medioambiental. Traducido del inglés por Carlos Manzano (Project Syndicate, 09/10/11):
En este mes, hace veinticinco años, me senté enfrente de Ronald Reagan, en Reykjavik (Islandia) para negociar un acuerdo que redujera –y al final podría haber eliminado en 2000– los pavorosos arsenales de armas nucleares que tenían los Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética.
Pese a nuestras diferencias, Reagan … Seguir leyendo
Por Antonio Elorza, catedrático de Ciencia Política (EL PAÍS, 01/10/11):
Una de las más hermosas canciones en la historia del movimiento obrero fue sin duda el Addio Lugano bella, obra del anarquista Pietro Gori. Era una protesta frente a la expulsión de los libertarios italianos por parte del Gobierno suizo y en la letra no faltaban la mención de Guillermo Tell, traicionado, ni una rotunda declaración de inocencia. La idea anárquica era una “idea de amor”, y la consigna de los revolucionarios consistía en “predicar la paz y conjurar la guerra”. Claro que se trataba de un pacifismo peculiar: … Seguir leyendo
By Yousaf Butt, a nuclear physicist who serves as a scientific consultant to the Federation of American Scientists (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21/09/11):
Last week marked the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s announcement of what was to be a radical new approach to missile defense — the Phased Adaptive Approach. According to this plan, the United States, working with NATO, would ramp up the deployment of a mix of increasingly sophisticated sea- and land-based missile interceptors around Europe in an attempt to guard against future Iranian missiles.
If there’s one issue that still enjoys bipartisan support in the U.S. … Seguir leyendo
By Ted Widmer, a historian who directs the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 17/09/11):
Dominique Moïsi argued on these pages on Sept. 8 (An infamy in history) that the significance of 9/11 lies not in what many observers see as an opening salvo in a “clash of civilizations,” but rather in the fact that the attacks accelerated the end of the American Century. Ted Widmer, a historian who directs the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, joins the debate.
It was irresistible, on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, to draw … Seguir leyendo
Por Ahmed Rashid, escritor y periodista. Autor de Talibán y Descenso al caos: los Estados Unidos y el desastre de Pakistán, Afganistán y el Asia central (EL MUNDO, 12/09/11):
En la conmoción que siguió al 11 de septiembre del 2001, la pregunta que más se hacían los norteamericanos, que acababan de toparse por primera vez con el extremismo islámico, era «¿Por qué nos odian tanto?». La respuesta simple que a muchos norteamericanos les resultaba tranquilizadora era que «los otros» estaban celosos de la riqueza de Estados Unidos, de sus oportunidades, de su democracia y de … Seguir leyendo
Por André Glucksmann, filósofo francés. Traducción de Juan Ramón Azaola (EL PAÍS, 12/09/11):
El 11 de septiembre se vivió, de entrada, como imposible. Los testigos no creen lo que están viendo, las desvalidas autoridades se creen en plena ciencia-ficción, los prudentes que quieren mantener el sentido común lo pierden al fabular delirantes conspiraciones (la CIA, los judíos, misteriosos especuladores inmobiliarios). Aun así, lo imposible tuvo lugar y a ese lugar no por casualidad se le nombró Zona Cero, o sea, el espacio devastado de las primeras experiencias atómicas. Tampoco hay casualidad alguna en que las autoridades supremas sean introducidas … Seguir leyendo