Archivo etiqueta «EEUU»
Par Yves-Michel Riols (LE MONDE, 16/11/11):
Lorsque Barack Obama s’adressera au Parlement fédéral australien, le 17 novembre, son propos sera surtout destiné aux pays de l’Asie-Pacifique, inquiets de l’influence grandissante de la Chine dans la région. En faisant escale à Canberra, la capitale australienne, avant de se rendre au sommet de l’Asean, à Bali (Indonésie), le président américain devrait réaffirmer l’engagement des Etats-Unis aux côtés de ses alliés traditionnels dans la zone, à commencer par l’Australie, la plus grande île du monde.
Les liens entre ces deux pays-continents vont bien au-delà des affinités linguistiques et culturelles entre deux anciennes colonies … Seguir leyendo
By Greg Mello, the executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group, a nuclear disarmament advocacy organization (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 15/11/11):
It has been over 20 years since the end of the cold war, and yet the United States continues to spend enormous sums on its nuclear arsenal and related programs. In fact, rather than looking for ways to save money in this budget-conscious time, the National Nuclear Security Administration is asking for even more money to build one of its most unnecessary projects yet: a second big plutonium facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The facility, which … 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
By Aaron David Miller, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars who served as a Middle East negotiator in Republican and Democratic administrations. He is the author of the forthcoming Can America Have Another Great President? (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 13/11/11):
All Gaul was divided into three parts, Julius Caesar wrote in his “De Bello Gallico.” For America, the Arab world had been divided into two: adversarial and acquiescent Arab authoritarians.
Until now.
The last eight months have witnessed profound changes. The willing and unwilling Arab autocrats have gone or are going the way of … Seguir leyendo
Por Inocencio F. Arias, diplomático (ABC, 12/11/11):
Parece que Shakespeare en «Romeo y Julieta» inserta 175 juegos de palabras. En el flechazo de los protagonistas, sin embargo, no hay ambigüedad. El amor es inmediato y desbocado. Romeo vislumbra a Julieta en el baile y musita: «¿Amó mi corazón antes de ahora?… Nunca vi la verdadera belleza hasta esta noche.?». Baila brevemente con Julieta, pronto se besan y la pasión prende en ambos irremisiblemente.
La escena es gran teatro, difícilmente en la vida real el hechizo amoroso podría actuar con tal rapidez. Sin embargo, el frustrado amor de Zapatero y … Seguir leyendo
By David F. Gordon, head of research and director of global macro analysis at Eurasia Group, a global political risk consultancy. He was director of policy planning at the State Department from 2007 to 2009 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 11/11/11):
As President Obama travels to Honolulu for this weekend’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, he will confront a changing game in Asia. During a recent visit to the region, a senior Asian policymaker told me, “We used to ask what we could get from the Americans in return for their military personnel and basing rights. The new question is, what … Seguir leyendo
Por Manuel Castells (LA VANGUARDIA, 05/11/11):
El capital financiero y sus altos ejecutivos tienen un problema serio: la gente no los quiere. Es más, muchos los odian. Y el clamor se extiende contra los políticos percibidos como marionetas de los bancos a los que protegen con el dinero de los contribuyentes sin que los bancos devuelvan el favor cuando les va bien a ellos y mal al país. Porque, argumentan, el dinero es de sus accionistas. Nadie lo cree porque en las juntas de accionistas está todo bien atado. Con una minoritaria participación de control unos pocos accionistas hacen y … 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 Henry Kamen, historiador británico. Su último libro es Poder y gloria. Los héreoes de la España imperial, Espasa, 2010 (EL MUNDO, 02/11/11):
En Estados Unidos este año ha sido difícil distinguir a los auténticos fantasmas entre los ciudadanos ataviados con disfraces de Halloween, y no digamos ya entre tantos extraños seres humanos como hay en la vida económica y política intentando desesperadamente llegar a un acuerdo con las pesadillas del día. Esta atmósfera irreal lo fue todavía más el pasado fin de semana cuando Batman apareció en Wall Street, como parte de la representación que se estaba filmando … Seguir leyendo
By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew Grossman, lawyers in Washington. D.C. Rivkin served in the Justice Department under Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 326/10/11):
On the September night that the state of Georgia put Troy Davis to death, a crowd of several hundred gathered at the Supreme Court in Washington to protest America’s continued practice of capital punishment. But they were in the wrong place. The protesters should have assembled 600 miles southeast, in Atlanta. The Constitution does not empower the Supreme Court to proscribe capital punishment or to regulate it out of existence, … Seguir leyendo
Por Mario Vargas Llosa. © Derechos mundiales de prensa en todas las lenguas reservados a Ediciones EL PAÍS, SL, 2011. © Mario Vargas Llosa, 2011 (EL PAÍS, 23/10/11):
Desde que la serie televisiva The Wire se transmitió he leído tantos elogios sobre ella que no exagero si digo que he vivido varios años esperando robar un tiempo al tiempo para verla. Lo he hecho, por fin, y he gozado con los episodios de las cinco temporadas como leyendo una de esas grandes novelas decimonónicas -las de Dickens o de Dumas- que aparecían por capítulos en los diarios a lo … Seguir leyendo
By Tom Switzer, a research associate at the United States Studies Center at the University of Sydney (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 22/10/11):
Whether it was worth doing in the first place is debatable and how it will end remains to be seen. But it looks as if the Obama administration is scoring a victory in Libya. A brutal tyrant has been overthrown; the heavy use of air power, including drones, was highly effective; a broad, international coalition remained united; and there was no loss of American lives. Perhaps “leading from behind” is not an oxymoron after all.
Those words … Seguir leyendo
By Danny Danon, deputy speaker of the Knesset (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 21/10/11):
For more than 60 years, the American-Israeli relationship has by and large been incredibly close. Most of us, on both sides of the Atlantic, assumed that the election of Barack Obama three years ago would assure the continuation of this long-standing friendship. Unfortunately however, American and Israeli supporters of this special relationship quickly began to notice a subtle but noticeable change in the dynamics between the two administrations. This change points to a fundamental misunderstanding of the moral and strategic reasoning behind the relationship. More important, this … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the IMF, co-founder of a leading economics blog, http://BaselineScenario.com, a professor at MIT Sloan, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and co-author, with James Kwak, of 13 Bankers (Project Syndicate, 20/10/11):
Participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement are right to argue that the big banks have never properly been investigated for the mortgage origination, aggregation, and securitization behavior that was central to the financial crisis – and to the loss of more than eight million jobs. But, thanks to the efforts of New York’s attorney general, … Seguir leyendo