Archivo etiqueta «Dinamarca»
Par Jenny Andersson, chargée de recherche au CERI-Sciences Po (LE MONDE, 18/10/11):
En septembre dernier, les Norvégiens ont élu leurs représentants locaux et les Danois ont renouvelé leur parlement. Ces deux scrutins ont été suivis avec le plus grand intérêt par l’ensemble des Européens. Allait-on observer un recul de l’extrême droite en réaction aux événements violents qui se sont produits cet été en Norvège ?
LE RECUL ATTENDU DE L’EXTREME DROITE
La réponse à cette question semble être positive, même s’il est probable que la baisse ne soit que temporaire. En Suède, de récents sondages montrent un recul significatif … Seguir leyendo
By Eirikur Bergmann, a professor in political science and director of Centre for European Studies at the Bifrost University in Iceland (THE GUARDIAN, 02/11/10):
Today the leaders of the five Nordic states are meeting to discuss the possibility of creating a Nordic federal state. Ever since the Kalmar Union of the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden – reaching to Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland and Orkney – collapsed in 1523, the idea of reinstating some sort of a supra-national Nordic state regularly crops up. Now this old idea has resurfaced in a book the Swedish history professor … Seguir leyendo
By Roger Howard, the author of The Arctic Gold Rush: The New Race for Tomorrow’s Resources (THE TIMES, 04/09/09):
The drastic climatic changes in the Arctic, viewed first-hand this week by an ‘alarmed’ UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, are threatening to unleash not only environmental catastrophe on the rest of the world but a furious political struggle between competing regional governments.
The Arctic Five – the US, Russia, Norway, Canada and Denmark (Greenland) – are scrambling to secure territorial rights to disputed and hitherto unclaimed parts of the world’s last great wilderness. This is partly because the retreat of … Seguir leyendo
Por Daniel Reboredo, historiador (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 14/07/09):
La ‘Tierra Verde’, la isla más grande del mundo después de Australia, la región de clima polar cubierto de hielo, la lejana Groenlandia, descubierta por el vikingo noruego Erik el Rojo en el siglo X (982), bajo soberanía noruega desde 1261, redescubierta por Martin Frobisher y John Davis en el siglo XVI, colonizada por el misionero luterano noruego Hans Egede (el Apóstol de Groenlandia) dos siglos después, protectorado estadounidense en 1941 por su gran valor estratégico, provincia danesa a partir de 1953 y territorio autónomo con gobierno propio desde 1979 tras … Seguir leyendo
By Madeleine Bunting (THE GUARDIAN, 15/08/08):
One of my best friends is a Finn. She came to England at 16, but when it came to giving birth to her first baby 13 years later, there was no hesitation: she went home. When she returned, along with her stories of state of the art healthcare, she brought tangible evidence of the largesse of the Nordic welfare state: each new mother was given a box of exquisite new baby clothes and equipment. Everything was a perfect mint green and lavender. In contrast, when it was my turn several years later to give … Seguir leyendo
By John B. Bellinger, the legal adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/06/08):
With the Arctic ice melting, anticipated increases in Arctic shipping, tourism and economic activity, and Russia’s flag-planting at the North Pole last summer, there has been much talk in the press about a “race to the Arctic” and even some calls for a new treaty to govern the “lawless” Arctic region.
We should all cool down. While there may be a need to expand cooperation in some areas, like search and rescue, there is already an extensive legal framework governing the … Seguir leyendo
Por Michael Taarnby, investigador asociado del Instituto Danés de Estudios Internacionales, en Copenhague, Dinamarca (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 16/11/07):
Tema: Este análisis trata de Dinamarca como objetivo potencial de al-Qaeda. Intenta definir y comprender la naturaleza de la amenaza siguiendo la pista de las conexiones entre Dinamarca y al-Qaeda en el pasado y en la actualidad.
Resumen: Sucesos recientes como la crisis de las viñetas danesas y el despliegue de tropas en Irak y Afganistán en la lucha contra el terrorismo suelen citarse como causas específicas que han colocado a Dinamarca en el punto de mira de al-Qaeda. Aunque estos … Seguir leyendo
By Ben Macintyre (THE TIMES, 17/08/07):
Standing in a Danish cornfield last week, a young Iraqi interpreter described to me what it feels like to be branded as a collaborator: the menacing stares, the neighbours who shun you in the street and spit as you pass, the threatening notes pushed under the door at midnight promising death to traitors, the isolation and the terror.
Like many university-educated Iraqis, this man began working as a translator for the coalition forces soon after the invasion of Iraq, and ended up on the payroll of the Danish Army. When the Danes pulled out … Seguir leyendo
By Scott Borgerson, who teaches maritime studies at the Coast Guard Academy, is an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/08/07):
Aboard Training Vessel Arctic Tern, off Newport, R.I.
Russia’s flag-planting caper at the North Pole last week captured the world’s attention. Harking back to the heady days of colonial imperialism and perhaps the success of Sputnik, a resurgent Russia dispatched from Murmansk a nuclear-powered icebreaker and a research vessel armed with two mini-submarines to stake a symbolic claim to the Arctic Ocean’s riches. Russia hopes that leaving its flag encased in … Seguir leyendo
Dra. Ulla Holm, Instituto Danés de Estudios Internacionales (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 16/03/06):
Tema: Este ARI trata de la publicación de las viñetas danesas sobre Mahoma, que ha desatado una crisis de identidad en Dinamarca tanto con respecto a la política exterior danesa como a su identidad nacional.
Leer artículo completo (PDF). También disponible en el Real Instituto Elcano.… Seguir leyendo
Por Walter Laqueur, director del Instituto de Estudios Estratégicos de Washington (LA VANGUARDIA, 24/02/06):
Dinamarca era mi paraíso de joven. Era posible visitar el país durante unos días o unas semanas y respirar algo de aire fresco, lejos del alcance de la dictadura de la Alemania nazi. Aprendí incluso un poco de danés para leer los periódicos. Durante la guerra y en años posteriores seguí los acontecimientos del país con interés y bastante de cerca. Aunque, al parecer, no lo bastante de cerca en estos últimos años. Leo en los artículos de la prensa mundial que en Dinamarca, sin … Seguir leyendo
By Kiku Day, a danish musician living in London (THE GUARDIAN, 15/02/06):
Denmark has at last managed to catch the world’s eye, after so many years of failing to get credit for being at the cutting edge of liberalism. But the inelegant handling of the controversy over the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad is the result of a country that has been moving in the direction of xenophobia and racism – especially towards its Muslim inhabitants.
The world needs to realise that the Denmark that helped Jews flee from Nazi deportation is long gone. A new Denmark has appeared, … Seguir leyendo
By Martin Burcharth, the United States correspondent for Information, a Danish newspaper (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 12/02/06):
There seems to be some surprise that the Danish people and their government are standing behind the Jyllands-Posten newspaper and its decision to publish drawings of the Prophet Muhammad last fall. Aren’t Danes supposed to be unusually tolerant and respectful of others?
Not entirely. Denmark’s reputation as a nation with a long tradition of tolerance toward others — one solidified by its rescue of Danish Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps in 1943 and by the high levels of humanitarian aid … Seguir leyendo