Archivo etiqueta «Noruega»
By Jo Nesbo, the author of the novel The Snowman. This article was translated from the Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27/07/11):
A few days ago, before the bombing here and the shootings on Utoya Island, a friend and I were talking about how the joy of being alive always seems to go hand in hand with the sorrow that things change. Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before — to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in … Seguir leyendo
Por Javier Sierra, escritor, autor de novelas como El ángel perdido o Las puertas templarias (EL MUNDO, 26/07/11):
«Soy un caballero templario, masón. Llamo a hacer la guerra contra los marxistas y los islamistas…». Esta breve declaración que Anders Behring Breivik difundió por las redes sociales horas antes de acometer su masacre en la isla de Utoya y en el centro de Oslo, podría esconder el hilo maestro del que tirar si queremos comprender su verdadera personalidad. Estamos ante un temperamento de hielo, elaborado sobre el convencimiento de que su fin -la liberación de Europa de la «guerra demográfica» islámica … Seguir leyendo
By Russell Jacoby, a historian at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence From Cain and Abel to the Present (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 26/07/11):
“Isn’t it kind of scary that one man could wreak this kind of hell?” Timothy J. McVeigh said of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people. Indeed, it is.
Automatic weapons and potent bombs allow the deranged and begrudged to slaughter scores of innocents in mere seconds. Witness the shootings at the University of Texas in 1966 (14 killed), Columbine High School … Seguir leyendo
Por Petter Nome es periodista. Durante 30 años presentó el informativo más visto de la televisión noruega (EL MUNDO, 25/07/11):
¿Qué tipo de trastorno mental y moral lleva a un joven a acabar con el corazón de la vida política de una nación pacífica y a ejecutar una matanza de más de 90 personas en un campamento juvenil? Un psicólogo amigo me comentó, cuando el horror todavía estaba teniendo lugar, que «esto parece algo así como un parricidio final, el modo de proceder de alguien que se ha sentido traicionado por las autoridades de su infancia y que ha desarrollado … Seguir leyendo
By Aslak Sira Myhre, the director of the House of Literature in Oslo, an author and the former leader of the Red Electoral Alliance (THE GUARDIAN, 24/07/11):
Like every other citizen of Oslo, I have walked in the streets and buildings that have been blown away. I have even spent time on the island where young political activists were massacred. I share the fear and pain of my country. But the question is always why, and this violence was not blind.
The terror of Norway has not come from Islamic extremists. Nor has it come from the far left, … 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 Benjamin de Carvalho, a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) This article was co-written with Ingrid Aune and Randi Solhjell. (THE GUARDIAN, 13/05/10):
A proud nation of peace, Norway has traditionally been one of the staunchest supporters of UN peacekeeping. But this is now turning, as Norway may pull the plug on the entire UN peacekeeping commitment in Chad. By recalling the entire Norwegian medical contingent starting on 15 May, the fate of nearly a 250,000 refugees – many from the Darfur region – will be left uncertain.
The UN force in … Seguir leyendo
By Kjersti Knudssøn and Synnøve Bakke. Both are journalists at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (THE GUARDIAN, 27/10/09):
In the struggle to reveal details of the waste dumping in Ivory Coast, the Guardian and the BBC are not alone in attracting the attentions of Trafigura’s lawyers brandishing gags. Here in Norway, at the national broadcaster, we too were issued with stern legal warnings. And so we published.
Norway has an important, if little reported, role in the Trafigura scandal. Back in 2006, as the Probo Koala tanker ship delivered waste to Ivory Coast, her sister ship, Probo Emu, was preparing for … Seguir leyendo
By Roy Hattersley, the author of In Search of England (THE TIMES, 21/10/09):
Jens Stoltenberg, the recently re-elected Prime Minister of Norway, could not have been more frank. Asked if entry into the European Union was on his government’s agenda, he replied — almost with pride — that Norway was the only country that had twice rejected Brussels’ embrace. There were, he said, no plans to hold a third referendum. “I was there the last time it was defeated . . . and I don’t seek new defeats.”
He might have added that half of his “coalition of workers, … Seguir leyendo
Par André Grebine, directeur de recherche à Sciences-Po, Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (LIBERATION, 02/10/09):
La Norvège est généralement connue comme un pays où prévalent la cohésion sociale et le consensus autour de valeurs telles que la solidarité et le refus de l’exclusion. Pourtant, lors des dernières élections législatives, un parti populiste, sinon d’extrême droite, le Parti du progrès, y a obtenu 22,9% des suffrages, ce qui en fait le deuxième parti norvégien, et ceci pour la deuxième fois consécutive. Ne faut-il pas attribuer ce résultat précisément à ce qui devait prémunir la Norvège contre toute poussée extrémiste : la … 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 Juan Herreros, arquitecto y ganador del proyecto para el nuevo Museo Munch de Oslo (EL PAÍS, 30/04/09):
Como ya hiciera con el Kursaal de Rafael Moneo y el MUSAC de Mansilla y Tuñón, el premio Mies van der Rohe ha vuelto a reconocer la capacidad de la arquitectura, de un sólo edificio, para desplazar el centro de gravedad de una ciudad. La Ópera de Oslo firmada por el estudio Snøhetta es la primera pieza de una operación que transformará completamente la lectura y el uso de un enclave que quiere reivindicarse a sí mismo como Fijord city. … 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
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